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The sqs metricset of aws module allows you to monitor your AWS SQS queues. sqs metricset fetches a set of values from Amazon SQS Metrics. CloudWatch metrics for Amazon SQS queues are automatically collected and pushed to CloudWatch every five minutes.

AWS Permissions [_aws_permissions_14]

Some specific AWS permissions are required for IAM user to collect AWS SQS metrics.

cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
ec2:DescribeRegions
sqs:ListQueues
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases

Dashboard [_dashboard_15]

The aws sqs metricset comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

Configuration example [_configuration_example_14]

- module: aws
  period: 300s
  metricsets:
    - sqs
  access_key_id: '<access_key_id>'
  secret_access_key: '<secret_access_key>'
  session_token: '<session_token>'