metrics_backend is the definition of a metrics backend to which all automatically generated metrics from your pipeline are sent to and is part of the metrics_backends list in the monitoring section of your liminal.yml
- metrics_backend: cloudwatch_metrics type: aws_cloudwatch namespace: DataPipeline AWS_REGION_NAME: us-east-1
A metrics_backend is defined by the following attribtues:
metrics_backend: name of your metrics backend
type: type of the metrics backend. The current available metrics backends are: aws_cloudwatch.
Different metrics backend types require their own additional configuration. For example, aws_cloudwatch metrics backend requires namespace to be configured.