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eylon levi
eylon levi

Reputation: 137

monitor SQS queue with CloudWatch

Hope you all doing well, I am new with SQS and Cloudwatch and I need to create a Cloudwatch that would monitor SQS and would trigger Lambda with an event every time a message enters and every time a message is left.

On another note, the lambda function should scale up and down ASG service. So if anyone has a cookbook regarding those issues it would be very helpful

thank you so much!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1139

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269081

It appears that your requirement is to scale Amazon EC2 instances when messages are waiting to be processed in an Amazon SQS queue.

The correct architecture for this would be to configure the Auto Scaling group to use a scaling policy based on the metric ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible. This is a metric that Amazon SQS queues send to Amazon CloudWatch Metrics. There is no need to use an AWS Lambda function.

For reference, see:

Upvotes: 1

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