API Gateway stage is abandoned

Checks if an API Gateway Stage resource has seen any activity during the past 5 days. If not, the resource is could be abandoned and might no longer be necessary.

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Metric: METRICS.APIGATEWAY.APIGATEWAY_REQUESTS
Interval: 1 day
Check period: 5 days

Why do I see this?

One of your API stages has not seen any activity for the last five days.

What does this mean?

If a resource is no longer used, it is good to remove it entirely. If left unaddressed, abandoned resources can be a security threat and leave your system open for exploitation. 

API Gateway stage is abandoned. How do I fix this?

Check if it’s okay that this API stage didn’t have an activity or if something is wrong here. If it has been forgotten, you should delete it.


This rule resolution is part of the Dashbird Serverless Well Architected Reports tool for AWS. Dashbird features a collection of rules and checks continuously applied to your infrastructure, surfacing ways to improve it.

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