This dashboard provides an interface to view and analyze metrics from your Amazon SQS.

Metric visualization Metric name Description
Messages Received aws_sqs_number_of_messages_received_average The number of messages returned by calls to the ReceiveMessage action.
Messages Sent aws_sqs_number_of_messages_sent_average The number of messages added to a queue.
Messages Deleted aws_sqs_number_of_messages_deleted_average The number of messages deleted from the queue.
Empty Messages Received aws_sqs_number_of_empty_receives_average The number of ReceiveMessage API calls that did not return a message.
Messages State aws_sqs_approximate_number_of_messages_delayed_average, aws_sqs_approximate_number_of_messages_visible_average, aws_sqs_approximate_number_of_messages_not_visible_average The number of messages in the queue that are delayed and not available for reading immediately, The number of messages available for retrieval from the queue, the number of messages that are in flight
Messages Received Per Queue aws_sqs_number_of_messages_received_average The number of messages returned by calls to the ReceiveMessage action.
Messages Sent Per Queue aws_sqs_number_of_messages_sent_average The number of messages added to a queue.
Message Size Per Queue aws_sqs_sent_message_size_average The size of messages added to a queue.
Oldest Meesage Age Per Queue aws_sqs_approximate_age_of_oldest_message_average The approximate age of the oldest non-deleted message in the queue.