Posted On: Sep 20, 2016

You can now monitor, alarm and receive notifications on the operational performance and usage of Amazon Elastic Transcoder using Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. Amazon Elastic Transcoder now automatically publishes nine operational metrics into Amazon CloudWatch, giving you more visibility into the overall health of your transcoding workflow and the ability to invoke an action if the metric you are tracking crosses a certain threshold for a defined period of time. You can monitor metrics such as jobs completed, jobs that errored out, output minutes generated, standby time, and errors and throttles on various API calls. 

These metrics are automatically provided to all Elastic Transcoder customers at no additional costs. Alarming is billed at standard CloudWatch rates.

To learn how to get started monitoring your Elastic Transcoder activity and setting alarms via CloudWatch, please consult the Elastic Transcoder Developer Guide.