Amazon Simple Workflow integration

New Relic integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for reporting your Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) metrics and other data to New Relic.

This document explains how to activate the integration, and describes the data reported.

Features

Collect and send telemetry data to New Relic from your Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) services using our integration. Monitor your services, query incoming data, and build dashboards to observe everything at a glance.

Activate integration

This integration is available through CloudWatch Metric Streams.

To enable this integration, see how to connect AWS services to New Relic via CloudWatch Metric Streams.

Find and use data

To find your integration's metrics, go to one.newrelic.com > Metrics and events and filter by aws.simpleworkflow.

Metric data

This New Relic infrastructure integration collects the following Amazon SWF data:

SWF metric data

Metric (min, max, average, count, sum)	Unit	Description
`DecisionTaskScheduleToStartTime`	Time	The time interval, in milliseconds, between the time that the decision task was scheduled and when it was picked up by a worker and started.
`DecisionTaskStartToCloseTime`	Time	The time interval, in milliseconds, between the time that the decision task was started and when it closed.
`DecisionTasksCompleted`	Count	The count of decision tasks that have been completed.
`PendingTasks`	Count	The count of pending tasks in a 1 minute interval for a specific Task List.
`StartedDecisionTasksTimedOutOnClose`	Count	The count of decision tasks that started but timed out on closing.
`WorkflowStartToCloseTime`	Time	The time, in milliseconds, between the time the workflow started and when it closed.
`WorkflowsCanceled`	Count	The count of workflows that were canceled.
`WorkflowsCompleted`	Count	The count of workflows that completed.
`WorkflowsContinuedAsNew`	Count	The count of workflows that continued as new.
`WorkflowsFailed`	Count	The count of workflows that failed.
`WorkflowsTerminated`	Count	The count of workflows that were terminated.
`WorkflowsTimedOut`	Count	The count of workflows that timed out, for any reason.

All imported data has one dimension: Domain

Create alerts

You can set up to notify you if there are any changes. For example, you can set up an alert to notify relevant parties of critical or fatal errors.

Learn more about creating alerts here.