CustomizedMetricSpecification
Represents a CloudWatch metric of your choosing for a target tracking scaling policy to use with Application Auto Scaling.
For information about the available metrics for a service, see Amazon Web Services services that publish CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
To create your customized metric specification:
Add values for each required parameter from CloudWatch. You can use an existing metric, or a new metric that you create. To use your own metric, you must first publish the metric to CloudWatch. For more information, see Publish custom metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
Choose a metric that changes proportionally with capacity. The value of the metric should increase or decrease in inverse proportion to the number of capacity units. That is, the value of the metric should decrease when capacity increases, and increase when capacity decreases.
For more information about the CloudWatch terminology below, see Amazon CloudWatch concepts in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
Types
Properties
The dimensions of the metric.
The name of the metric. To get the exact metric name, namespace, and dimensions, inspect the Metric object that's returned by a call to ListMetrics.
The metrics to include in the target tracking scaling policy, as a metric data query. This can include both raw metric and metric math expressions.
The statistic of the metric.
The unit of the metric. For a complete list of the units that CloudWatch supports, see the MetricDatum data type in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.