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DynamoDB Table – Monitor Table Read Capacity
This check ensures that DynamoDB table read capacity usage is actively monitored. Monitoring read capacity helps detect throttling issues, performance bottlenecks, and unexpected workload spikes.
Check Details
- Resource: DynamoDB Table
- Check: Monitor DynamoDB table read capacity
- Risk: Read throttling and degraded application performance
Remediation via AWS Console
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Log in to the AWS Management Console and open the
Amazon DynamoDB console.
- In the left navigation panel, click Tables and select the affected DynamoDB table.
- Open the Monitor tab.
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Ensure the following metric is visible and updating:
- ConsumedReadCapacityUnits
Monitoring via AWS CLI
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Log in to the AWS Management Console and click the
CloudShell icon (
>_) in the top-right corner.
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Describe DynamoDB tables in the region:
aws dynamodb list-tables -
Monitor read capacity using CloudWatch metrics:
aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics \ --namespace AWS/DynamoDB \ --metric-name ConsumedReadCapacityUnits \ --dimensions Name=TableName,Value=<table-name> \ --statistics Sum \ --period 300 \ --start-time $(date -u -d '15 minutes ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) \ --end-time $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
Regularly review read capacity metrics and configure CloudWatch alarms to proactively detect throttling or abnormal usage patterns.