Monitor performance of Amazon DynamoDB using an AWS SDK - Amazon DynamoDB
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Monitor performance of Amazon DynamoDB using an AWS SDK

The following code example shows how to configure an application's use of DynamoDB to monitor performance.

Java
SDK for Java 2.x

This example shows how to configure a Java application to monitor the performance of DynamoDB. The application sends metric data to CloudWatch where you can monitor the performance.

For complete source code and instructions on how to set up and run, see the full example on GitHub.

Services used in this example

  • CloudWatch

  • DynamoDB

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using DynamoDB with an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.