Serverless Programming Cookbook

Step 1–Create a simple metric without dimensions

Using the following code, we will first create a metric without specifying dimensions and then we will post data with dimensions. We can combine both Step 1 and Step 2 for real-world use cases:

aws cloudwatch put-metric-data \    --namespace 'ServerlessProgrammingCookbook' \    --metric-name 'FailedLogins' \    --value 1 \    --region us-east-1 \    --profile admin

We can verify our metric from AWS Management Console as follows:

1. Log in to Management Console and go to the CloudWatch dashboard.
2. Click on the Metrics link from the sidebar. We should now see a new custom namespace called ServerlessProgrammingCookbook, along with the AWS namespaces, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. Click on the custom ...