Least Privileged User

Navigate to the AWS console and create an IAM user with programmatic access. The user will need the following permissions. You can create a policy specifically for these permissions and apply the permissions to the user.

For more information, see: High Level AWS Source Configuration

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric",
        "apigateway:HEAD",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "apigateway:GET",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "apigateway:OPTIONS",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Connection Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
Region
Access Key ID	Required
Secret Access Key	Required
Additional Threads		The number of additional threads allowed to be utilized during collection.
Request Timeout (seconds)		The number of seconds to allow for the API to return a response.
Collect CloudWatch Metrics
CloudWatch Historic Mode		If enabled, retrieves a history of data points from CloudWatch. Otherwise, collects only the most recent data point for each metric.

Metrics

API

Name	Description
4xx Errors (Errors)	The number of client-side errors captured
5xx Errors (Errors)	The number of server-side errors captured.
Binary Media Types	The list of binary media types supported by the RestApi.
Cache Hit Count (Requests)	The number of requests served from the API cache.
Cache Miss Count (Requests)	The number of requests served from the back end when API caching is enabled.
Calls Count (Calls)	The number of calls to API methods.
Created Date	The timestamp when the API was created.
Description	The API's description.
Endpoint Configuration	The endpoint configuration of this RestApi showing the endpoint types of the API.
ID	The API's identifier.
Integration Latency (Milliseconds)	The time between when API Gateway relays a request to the back end and when it receives a response from the back end.
Key Source	The source of the API key for metring requests according to a usage plan.
Latency (Milliseconds)	The time between when API Gateway receives a request from a client and when it returns a response to the client. The latency includes the integration latency and other API Gateway overhead.
Minimum Compression Size (Bytes)	A nullable integer used to enable (non-negative between 0 and 10485760 (10M) bytes, inclusive) or disable (null) compression on an API.
Name	The API's name.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
Version	A version identifier for the API.
Warnings	The warning messages reported when failonwarnings is turned on during API import.

Stage

Name	Description
4xx Errors (Errors)	The number of client-side errors captured
5xx Errors (Errors)	The number of server-side errors captured.
API Name	The name of the API associated with the stage.
Cache Cluster Enabled	Specifies whether a cache cluster is enabled for the stage.
Cache Cluster Size (Gigabytes)	The size of the cache cluster for the stage, if enabled.
Cache Cluster Status	The status of the cache cluster for the stage, if enabled.
Cache Hit Count (Requests)	The number of requests served from the API cache.
Cache Miss Count (Requests)	The number of requests served from the back end when API caching is enabled.
Calls Count (Calls)	The number of calls to API methods.
Client Certificate ID	The identifier of a client certificate for an API stage.
Created Date	The timestamp when the stage was created.
Deployment ID	The identifier of the Deployment that the stage points to.
Description	The stage's description.
Documentation Version	The version of the associated API documentation.
Full Name	The name of the Stage along with the corresponding API name.
Integration Latency (Milliseconds)	The time between when API Gateway relays a request to the back end and when it receives a response from the back end.
Last Updated Date	The timestamp when the stage was last updated.
Latency (Milliseconds)	The time between when API Gateway receives a request from a client and when it returns a response to the client. The latency includes the integration latency and other API Gateway overhead.
Name	The stage's name.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.

VPC Link

Name	Description
Description	The description of the VPC link.
ID	The identifier of the VPC Link.
Name	The name used to label and identify the VPC link.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
Status	The status of the VPC link.
Status Message	A description about the VPC link status.
Target ARNs	The ARNs of network load balancers of the VPC targeted by the VPC link.