Kinesis Data Stream shard metrics is disabled

Checks if shard levels CloudWatch metrics are enabled for your Kinesis Data streams.

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Why do I see this?

One of your streams doesn’t have enhanced shard level CloudWatch metrics enabled.

What does this mean?

Enhanced CloudWatch monitoring for Kinesis Data Streams helps you to get a more granular understanding of your streams and enables you to take action quickly and ensure better service quality.

Kinesis Data Stream shard metrics is disabled. How do I fix this?

You can enable enhanced CloudWatch metrics for Kinesis in the Kinesis Console.


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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