Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now provides enhanced monitoring for Apache Flink applications

Posted on: May 12, 2020

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now provides enhanced monitoring for Apache Flink applications through new metrics sent to Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics emits 19 application metrics by default such as CPU and memory utilization. You can also easily create custom metrics in your application code using Apache Flink’s built-in metrics system.  

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is the easiest way to analyze streaming data, gain actionable insights, and respond to your business and customer needs in real time. With Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, SQL users and Java developers (leveraging Apache Flink) build streaming applications to transform and analyze data in real time.  

You can learn about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics in the Developer Guide for Java Applications, and learn about logging and metrics.

For Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics availability, refer to the AWS Region Table.

Recent announcements:
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain)
Access Resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Apache Flink 1.8
You can now run fully managed Apache Flink applications with Apache Kafka