AWS Kinesis Data stream is abandoned

Checks if a Kinesis Stream has seen any activity for the past 3 days. If not, it is considered to be abandoned.

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Severity: INFO
Interval: 1 day
Time slot: 3 days

Metrics:
METRICS.KINESIS.DATA.INCOMING_RECORDS
METRICS.KINESIS.DATA.OUTGOING_RECORDS

Why do I see this?

One of your streams has not seen any activity for the past three 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.

AWS Kinesis Data stream is abandoned. How do I fix this?

Check if it’s okay that this stream didn’t have an activity or if something is wrong here. If the stream 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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