Amazon SES
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Amazon SES

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Overview

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, outbound-only email-sending service.

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

Setup

Installation

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

Metric collection

  1. In the AWS integration tile, ensure that SES is checked under metric collection.

  2. Add those permissions to your Datadog IAM policy in order to collect Amazon SES metrics:

    • ses:GetSendQuota: Add metrics about send quotas.
    • ses:GetSendStatistics: Add metrics about send statistics.

    For more information on SES policies, review the documentation on the AWS website.

  3. Install the Datadog - AWS SES integration.

Log collection

Enable logging

Configure Amazon SES to send logs either to a S3 bucket or to Cloudwatch.

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

Send logs to Datadog

  1. If you haven’t already, set up the Datadog log collection AWS Lambda function.

  2. Once the lambda function is installed, manually add a trigger on the S3 bucket or Cloudwatch log group that contains your Amazon SES logs in the AWS console:

Data Collected

Metrics

aws.ses.bounces
(gauge)		Number of emails that resulted in a hard bounce.
Shown as response
aws.ses.complaints
(gauge)		Number of emails that were marked by their recipients as spam.
Shown as response
aws.ses.delivery
(gauge)		Number of emails that Amazon SES successfully delivered to the mail servers of the intended recipients.
Shown as response
aws.ses.deliveryattempts
(gauge)		The number of delivery attempts
Shown as event
aws.ses.max_24_hour_send
(gauge)		The maximum number of emails that can be sent in a 24-hour period
Shown as event
aws.ses.open
(gauge)		The number of emails that were opened by their recipients.
Shown as response
aws.ses.rejects
(gauge)		Rejected send attempts (a rejected email is an email that Amazon SES initially accepted, but later rejected because the email contained a virus. Amazon SES notifies you by email and does not send the message.)
Shown as response
aws.ses.reputation_bounce_rate
(gauge)		The percentage of messages that resulted in hard bounces.
Shown as fraction
aws.ses.reputation_complaint_rate
(gauge)		The percentage of messages that were reported as spam by their recipients.
Shown as fraction
aws.ses.send
(gauge)		The email sending API call to Amazon SES was successful and Amazon SES will attempt to deliver the email.
Shown as response
aws.ses.sent_last_24_hours
(gauge)		The total number of emails sent in the past 24 hours
Shown as event

Each of the metrics retrieved from AWS will be assigned the same tags that appear in the AWS console, including but not limited to host name, security-groups, and more.

Events

The AWS SES integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

The AWS SES integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.

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