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Last updated: Mar 20th, 2023

Amazon SQS

Collect Amazon SQS metrics with Elastic Agent

What is an Elastic integration?

This integration is powered by Elastic Agent. Elastic Agent is a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host. It can also protect hosts from security threats, query data from operating systems, forward data from remote services or hardware, and more. Refer to our documentation for a detailed comparison between Beats and Elastic Agent.

Prefer to use Beats for this use case? See Filebeat modules for logs or Metricbeat modules for metrics.

The AWS SQS integration allows you to monitor Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)—a managed message queuing service.

Use the AWS SQS integration to view metrics on messages sent, stored, and received via Amazon SQS. Then visualize that data in Kibana, create alerts to notify you if something goes wrong, and reference metrics when troubleshooting an issue.

For example, you could track the number of messages in the queue that are delayed and not available for reading immediately. Then create an alert to be notified if the queue reaches a certain size.

IMPORTANT: Extra AWS charges on AWS API requests will be generated by this integration. Please refer to the AWS integration for more details.

Data streams

The SQS integration collects one type of data: metrics.

Metrics give you insight into the state of AWS SQS. Metrics collected by the AWS SQS integration include the number of messages that are in flight, the number of ReceiveMessage API calls that did not return a message, and more. See more details in the Metrics reference.

Requirements

You need Elasticsearch for storing and searching your data and Kibana for visualizing and managing it. You can use our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, which is recommended, or self-manage the Elastic Stack on your own hardware.

Before using any AWS integration you will need:

  • AWS Credentials to connect with your AWS account.
  • AWS Permissions to make sure the user you're using to connect has permission to share the relevant data.

For more details about these requirements, see the AWS integration documentation.

Setup

Use this integration if you only need to collect data from the AWS SQS service.

If you want to collect data from two or more AWS services, consider using the AWS integration. When you configure the AWS integration, you can collect data from as many AWS services as you'd like.

For step-by-step instructions on how to set up an integration, see the Getting started guide.

Metrics reference

An example event for sqs looks as following:

{
    "@timestamp": "2022-07-26T21:43:00.000Z",
    "agent": {
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "id": "2d4b09d0-cdb6-445e-ac3f-6415f87b9864",
        "type": "metricbeat",
        "ephemeral_id": "cdaaaabb-be7e-432f-816b-bda019fd7c15",
        "version": "8.3.2"
    },
    "elastic_agent": {
        "id": "2d4b09d0-cdb6-445e-ac3f-6415f87b9864",
        "version": "8.3.2",
        "snapshot": false
    },
    "cloud": {
        "provider": "aws",
        "region": "eu-central-1",
        "account": {
            "name": "elastic-beats",
            "id": "428152502467"
        }
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "8.0.0"
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "aws"
    },
    "data_stream": {
        "namespace": "default",
        "type": "metrics",
        "dataset": "aws.sqs"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "period": 300000,
        "name": "cloudwatch"
    },
    "aws": {
        "sqs": {
            "messages": {
                "visible": 1518.4,
                "deleted": 0,
                "not_visible": 0,
                "delayed": 0,
                "received": 0,
                "sent": 0.16666666666666666
            },
            "empty_receives": 0,
            "sent_message_size": {
                "bytes": 1002
            },
            "oldest_message_age": {
                "sec": 345605.6
            },
            "queue": {
                "name": "filebeat-aws-elb-test"
            }
        },
        "cloudwatch": {
            "namespace": "AWS/SQS"
        },
        "dimensions": {
            "QueueName": "filebeat-aws-elb-test"
        },
        "tags": {
            "created-by": "kaiyan"
        }
    },
    "event": {
        "duration": 11576777300,
        "agent_id_status": "verified",
        "ingested": "2022-07-26T21:47:48Z",
        "module": "aws",
        "dataset": "aws.sqs"
    }
}

Exported fields

FieldDescriptionType
@timestamp
Event timestamp.
date
aws.cloudwatch.namespace
The namespace specified when query cloudwatch api.
keyword
aws.dimensions.*
Metric dimensions.
object
aws.dimensions.QueueName
SQS queue name
keyword
aws.s3.bucket.name
Name of a S3 bucket.
keyword
aws.sqs.empty_receives
The number of ReceiveMessage API calls that did not return a message.
long
aws.sqs.messages.delayed
TThe number of messages in the queue that are delayed and not available for reading immediately.
long
aws.sqs.messages.deleted
The number of messages deleted from the queue.
long
aws.sqs.messages.not_visible
The number of messages that are in flight.
long
aws.sqs.messages.received
The number of messages returned by calls to the ReceiveMessage action.
long
aws.sqs.messages.sent
The number of messages added to a queue.
long
aws.sqs.messages.visible
The number of messages available for retrieval from the queue.
long
aws.sqs.oldest_message_age.sec
The approximate age of the oldest non-deleted message in the queue.
long
aws.sqs.queue.name
SQS queue name
keyword
aws.sqs.sent_message_size.bytes
The size of messages added to a queue.
long
aws.tags.*
Tag key value pairs from aws resources.
object
cloud
Fields related to the cloud or infrastructure the events are coming from.
group
cloud.account.id
The cloud account or organization id used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account id, Google Cloud ORG Id, or other unique identifier.
keyword
cloud.account.name
The cloud account name or alias used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account name, Google Cloud ORG display name.
keyword
cloud.availability_zone
Availability zone in which this host, resource, or service is located.
keyword
cloud.image.id
Image ID for the cloud instance.
keyword
cloud.instance.id
Instance ID of the host machine.
keyword
cloud.instance.name
Instance name of the host machine.
keyword
cloud.machine.type
Machine type of the host machine.
keyword
cloud.project.id
The cloud project identifier. Examples: Google Cloud Project id, Azure Project id.
keyword
cloud.provider
Name of the cloud provider. Example values are aws, azure, gcp, or digitalocean.
keyword
cloud.region
Region in which this host, resource, or service is located.
keyword
container.id
Unique container id.
keyword
container.image.name
Name of the image the container was built on.
keyword
container.labels
Image labels.
object
container.name
Container name.
keyword
data_stream.dataset
Data stream dataset.
constant_keyword
data_stream.namespace
Data stream namespace.
constant_keyword
data_stream.type
Data stream type.
constant_keyword
ecs.version
ECS version this event conforms to. ecs.version is a required field and must exist in all events. When querying across multiple indices -- which may conform to slightly different ECS versions -- this field lets integrations adjust to the schema version of the events.
keyword
error
These fields can represent errors of any kind. Use them for errors that happen while fetching events or in cases where the event itself contains an error.
group
error.message
Error message.
match_only_text
event.dataset
Event dataset
constant_keyword
event.module
Event module
constant_keyword
host.architecture
Operating system architecture.
keyword
host.containerized
If the host is a container.
boolean
host.domain
Name of the domain of which the host is a member. For example, on Windows this could be the host's Active Directory domain or NetBIOS domain name. For Linux this could be the domain of the host's LDAP provider.
keyword
host.hostname
Hostname of the host. It normally contains what the hostname command returns on the host machine.
keyword
host.id
Unique host id. As hostname is not always unique, use values that are meaningful in your environment. Example: The current usage of beat.name.
keyword
host.ip
Host ip addresses.
ip
host.mac
Host MAC addresses. The notation format from RFC 7042 is suggested: Each octet (that is, 8-bit byte) is represented by two [uppercase] hexadecimal digits giving the value of the octet as an unsigned integer. Successive octets are separated by a hyphen.
keyword
host.name
Name of the host. It can contain what hostname returns on Unix systems, the fully qualified domain name, or a name specified by the user. The sender decides which value to use.
keyword
host.os.build
OS build information.
keyword
host.os.codename
OS codename, if any.
keyword
host.os.family
OS family (such as redhat, debian, freebsd, windows).
keyword
host.os.kernel
Operating system kernel version as a raw string.
keyword
host.os.name
Operating system name, without the version.
keyword
host.os.name.text
Multi-field of host.os.name.
match_only_text
host.os.platform
Operating system platform (such centos, ubuntu, windows).
keyword
host.os.version
Operating system version as a raw string.
keyword
host.type
Type of host. For Cloud providers this can be the machine type like t2.medium. If vm, this could be the container, for example, or other information meaningful in your environment.
keyword
service.type
The type of the service data is collected from. The type can be used to group and correlate logs and metrics from one service type. Example: If logs or metrics are collected from Elasticsearch, service.type would be elasticsearch.
keyword