AWS AppSync

Overview

AWS AppSync simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources.

Enable this integration to see all your AppSync metrics in Datadog.

Setup

Installation

If you haven’t already, set up the Amazon Web Services integration first.

Metric collection

  1. In the AWS integration page, ensure that AppSync is enabled under the Metric Collection tab.
  2. Install the Datadog - AWS AppSync integration.

Log collection

Enable logging

Configure AWS AppSync to send logs either to a S3 bucket or to CloudWatch.

Note: If you log to a S3 bucket, make sure that amazon_appsync is set as Target prefix.

Send logs to Datadog

  1. If you haven’t already, set up the Datadog Forwarder Lambda function.

  2. Once the Lambda function is installed, manually add a trigger on the S3 bucket or CloudWatch log group that contains your AWS AppSync logs in the AWS console:

Data Collected

Metrics

See metric-spec.yaml for a list of metrics provided by this integration.

Events

The AWS AppSync integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

The AWS AppSync integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.