Amazon Keyspaces (Cassandra)

Dynatrace ingests metrics for multiple preselected namespaces, including Amazon Keyspaces. You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.

Prerequisites

To enable monitoring for this service, you need

An Environment or Cluster ActiveGate version 1.197+
Dynatrace version 1.203+
An updated AWS monitoring policy to include the additional AWS services.
To update the AWS IAM policy, use the JSON below.

Predefined policy in JSON

Download

{
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
   "Statement": [
      {
         "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": [
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckResult",
            "athena:ListWorkGroups",
            "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentResources",
            "appsync:ListGraphqlApis",
            "kinesis:ListStreams",
            "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
            "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
            "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckSummaries",
            "kinesisanalytics:ListApplications",
            "codebuild:ListProjects",
            "datasync:ListTasks",
            "mediaconnect:ListFlows",
            "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
            "mediatailor:ListPlaybackConfigurations",
            "support:SearchForCases",
            "lambda:ListFunctions",
            "support:DescribeCases",
            "chatbot:DescribeSlackChannels",
            "transfer:ListServers",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "support:DescribeAttachment",
            "chatbot:DescribeSlackWorkspaces",
            "workmail:ListOrganizations",
            "firehose:ListDeliveryStreams",
            "eks:ListClusters",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "swf:ListDomains",
            "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckRefreshStatuses",
            "tag:GetResources",
            "dynamodb:ListTables",
            "qldb:ListLedgers",
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource",
            "dax:DescribeClusters",
            "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorChecks",
            "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
            "cloudhsm:DescribeClusters",
            "storagegateway:ListGateways",
            "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
            "lambda:ListTags",
            "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
            "support:DescribeSeverityLevels",
            "cloudsearch:DescribeDomains",
            "rds:DescribeEvents",
            "dms:DescribeReplicationInstances",
            "route53:ListHostedZones",
            "events:ListEventBuses",
            "chatbot:DescribeChimeWebhookConfigurations",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "es:ListDomainNames",
            "rds:ListTagsForResource",
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "opsworks:DescribeStacks",
            "kinesisvideo:ListStreams",
            "chatbot:DescribeSlackChannelConfigurations",
            "chatbot:GetSlackOauthParameters",
            "elastictranscoder:ListPipelines",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
            "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
            "support:DescribeSupportLevel",
            "support:DescribeCaseAttributes",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
            "apigateway:GET",
            "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces",
            "support:DescribeServices",
            "support:DescribeCommunications",
            "support:DescribeIssueTypes",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules",
            "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
            "fsx:DescribeFileSystems",
            "kafka:ListClusters",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
            "route53resolver:ListResolverEndpoints",
            "tag:GetTagKeys",
            "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
            "elasticmapreduce:ListClusters",
            "appstream:DescribeFleets",
            "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
            "ecs:ListClusters",
            "sqs:ListQueues",
            "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
            "mediaconvert:DescribeEndpoints",
            "ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
            "robomaker:ListSimulationJobs",
            "ec2:DescribeSpotFleetRequests",
            "mediapackage:ListChannels",
            "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
            "redshift:DescribeClusters",
            "mediapackage-vod:ListPackagingGroups",
            "mediapackage-vod:ListPackagingConfigurations",
            "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
            "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
            "directconnect:DescribeConnections"
         ],
         "Resource": "*"
      }
   ]
}

Add the service to monitoring

In order to view the service metrics, you must add the service to monitoring in your Dynatrace environment.

To add a service to monitoring

Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select AWS.
On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select the desired AWS instance. Select the Edit button.
Scroll down and select Add service. Choose the service name from the drop-down and select Add service.
Select Save changes.

Configure service metrics

Once you add a service, Dynatrace starts automatically collecting a suite of metrics for this particular service. These are recommended metrics.

Recommended metrics:

Are enabled by default
Can't be disabled
Can have recommended dimensions (enabled by default, can't be disabled)
Can have optional dimensions (disabled by default, can be enabled)

Apart from the recommended metrics, most services have the possibility of enabling optional metrics.

Optional metrics:

Can be added and configured manually

To add and configure metrics

Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select AWS.
On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select the desired AWS instance. Select the Edit button.
Scroll down to the Supporting services section and select Manage services.
To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
Select Add metric.
From the menu, select the metric you want.
Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
To configure a metric, select the Edit button associated to it.
Select Apply to save your configuration.

Import preset dashboards

Dynatrace provides preset AWS dashboards that you can import from GitHub to your environment's dashboard page. Once you download a preset dashboard locally, there are two ways to import it.

Import via Dynatrace web UI

On your Dynatrace dashboard page, select Edit and switch to Settings.
Select Advanced settings.
On the Dashboard settings menu, select Dashboard JSON.
Use Upload to choose and upload the dashboard JSON file that you want to import.

Import via Dynatrace API

Create an API token.
When creating the token, enable the Write configuration permission.
To import the dashboard, run the command below, replacing {DYNATRACE_HOST}, {DYNATRACE_TENANT}, {TOKEN}, and {PATH_TO_DASHBOARD} with your own values.

curl --location --request POST 'http://{DYNATRACE_HOST}/e/{DYNATRACE_TENANT}/api/config/v1/dashboards' \
--header 'Authorization: Api-Token {TOKEN}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary '{PATH_TO_DASHBOARD}'

For more information, see Dashboards API - POST a dashboard

Keyspaces

Available metrics

Name	Description	Unit	Statistics	Dimensions	Recommended
AccountMaxReads	The maximum number of read capacity units that can be used by an account	Count	Maximum	Region	✔️
AccountMaxTableLevelReads	The maximum number of read capacity units that can be used by a table of an account	Count	Maximum	Region	✔️
AccountMaxTableLevelWrites	The maximum number of write capacity units that can be used by a table of an account	Count	Maximum	Region	✔️
AccountMaxWrites	The maximum number of write capacity units that can be used by an account	Count	Maximum	Region	✔️
AccountProvisionedReadCapacityUtilization	The percentage of provisioned read capacity units utilized by an account	Percent	Multi	Region	✔️
AccountProvisionedWriteCapacityUtilization	The percentage of provisioned write capacity units utilized by an account	Percent	Multi	Region	✔️
ConditionalCheckFailed	The number of failed lightweight transaction (LWT) write requests	Count	Multi	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
ConditionalCheckFailed		Count	Sum	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
ConditionalCheckFailed		Count	Count	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
ConsumedReadCapacityUnits	The number of read capacity units consumed over the specified time period	Count	Multi	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
ConsumedReadCapacityUnits		Count	Sum	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
ConsumedReadCapacityUnits		Count	Count	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits	The number of write capacity units consumed over the specified time period	Count	Multi	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits		Count	Sum	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits		Count	Count	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
MaxProvisionedTableReadCapacityUtilization	The percentage of provisioned read capacity units utilized by the highest provisioned read table of an account	Percent	Multi	Region	✔️
MaxProvisionedTableWriteCapacityUtilization	The percentage of provisioned write capacity utilized by the highest provisioned write table of an account	Percent	Multi	Region	✔️
ProvisionedReadCapacityUnits	The number of provisioned read capacity units for a table	Count	Multi	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
ProvisionedWriteCapacityUnits	The number of provisioned write capacity units for a table	Count	Multi	Keyspace, TableName	✔️
ReturnedItemCountBySelect	The number of rows returned by SELECT operations during the specified time period	Count	Multi	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
ReturnedItemCountBySelect		Count	Sum	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
ReturnedItemCountBySelect		Count	Count	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SuccessfulRequestCount	The number of successful requests	Count	Multi	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SuccessfulRequestCount		Count	Sum	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SuccessfulRequestCount		Count	Count	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SuccessfulRequestLatency	The successful requests to Amazon Keyspaces during the specified time period	Milliseconds	Multi	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SuccessfulRequestLatency		Milliseconds	Sum	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SuccessfulRequestLatency		Milliseconds	Count	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SystemErrors	The requests to Amazon Keyspaces that generate a ServerError during the specified time period	Count	Sum	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
SystemErrors		Count	Count	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
UserErrors	Requests to Amazon Keyspaces that generate an `InvalidRequest` error during the specified time period	Count	Sum	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️
UserErrors		Count	Count	Keyspace, Operation, TableName	✔️

Limitations

There is no API for this service. Tagging is available on the custom devices (keyspaces) as it uses a separate Amazon API.