AWS Glue Data Catalog usage metrics now available with Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Glue Data Catalog now offers usage metrics for APIs in Amazon CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your API usage with greater visibility. The insights from these API usage metrics will help you better understand your lakehouse runtime API usage in production environments.

Customers seek better observability of their API usage to identify bottlenecks, detect anomalies, and understand usage patterns in their lakehouse architecture. With Data Catalog Usage Metrics in CloudWatch, you can track critical API usage performance indicators per minute, including reads, updates, and deletions of lakehouse resources such as catalogs, tables, partitions, connections, and statistics. You can set up CloudWatch alarms to receive notifications when metrics exceed specified thresholds, allowing proactive management of your lakehouse.

You can get started by navigating to Metrics in the CloudWatch console and filter usage by AWS Glue resource. You can then graph the metrics and configure alarms that alert you when usage approaches specified thresholds.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Data Catalog is available. To get started, read the launch blog and read Data Catalog documentation.