AWS CloudWatch

Since Camel 3.1

Only producer is supported

The AWS2 Cloudwatch component allows messages to be sent to an Amazon CloudWatch metrics. The implementation of the Amazon API is provided by the AWS SDK.

Prerequisites

You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account, and be signed up to use Amazon CloudWatch. More information is available at Amazon CloudWatch.

URI Format

aws2-cw://namespace[?options]

The metrics will be created if they don’t already exist.

You can append query options to the URI in the following format: ?options=value&option2=value&…​

Configuring Options

Camel components are configured on two separate levels:

  • component level

  • endpoint level

Configuring Component Options

At the component level, you set general and shared configurations that are, then, inherited by the endpoints. It is the highest configuration level.

For example, a component may have security settings, credentials for authentication, urls for network connection and so forth.

Some components only have a few options, and others may have many. Because components typically have pre-configured defaults that are commonly used, then you may often only need to configure a few options on a component; or none at all.

You can configure components using:

  • the Component DSL.

  • in a configuration file (application.properties, *.yaml files, etc).

  • directly in the Java code.

Configuring Endpoint Options

You usually spend more time setting up endpoints because they have many options. These options help you customize what you want the endpoint to do. The options are also categorized into whether the endpoint is used as a consumer (from), as a producer (to), or both.

Configuring endpoints is most often done directly in the endpoint URI as path and query parameters. You can also use the Endpoint DSL and DataFormat DSL as a type safe way of configuring endpoints and data formats in Java.

A good practice when configuring options is to use Property Placeholders.

Property placeholders provide a few benefits:

  • They help prevent using hardcoded urls, port numbers, sensitive information, and other settings.

  • They allow externalizing the configuration from the code.

  • They help the code to become more flexible and reusable.

The following two sections list all the options, firstly for the component followed by the endpoint.

Component Options

The AWS CloudWatch component supports 24 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

configuration (producer)

The component configuration.

Cw2Configuration

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

name (producer)

The metric name.

String

overrideEndpoint (producer)

Set the need for overriding the endpoint. This option needs to be used in combination with the uriEndpointOverride option.

false

boolean

region (producer)

The region in which CW client needs to work. When using this parameter, the configuration will expect the lowercase name of the region (for example, ap-east-1) You’ll need to use the name Region.EU_WEST_1.id().

Enum values:

  • ap-south-2

  • ap-south-1

  • eu-south-1

  • eu-south-2

  • us-gov-east-1

  • me-central-1

  • il-central-1

  • ca-central-1

  • eu-central-1

  • us-iso-west-1

  • eu-central-2

  • eu-isoe-west-1

  • us-west-1

  • us-west-2

  • af-south-1

  • eu-north-1

  • eu-west-3

  • eu-west-2

  • eu-west-1

  • ap-northeast-3

  • ap-northeast-2

  • ap-northeast-1

  • me-south-1

  • sa-east-1

  • ap-east-1

  • cn-north-1

  • ca-west-1

  • us-gov-west-1

  • ap-southeast-1

  • ap-southeast-2

  • us-iso-east-1

  • ap-southeast-3

  • ap-southeast-4

  • us-east-1

  • us-east-2

  • cn-northwest-1

  • us-isob-east-1

  • aws-global

  • aws-cn-global

  • aws-us-gov-global

  • aws-iso-global

  • aws-iso-b-global

String

timestamp (producer)

The metric timestamp.

Instant

unit (producer)

The metric unit.

String

uriEndpointOverride (producer)

Set the overriding uri endpoint. This option needs to be used in combination with overrideEndpoint option.

String

value (producer)

The metric value.

Double

amazonCwClient (advanced)

Autowired To use the AmazonCloudWatch as the client.

CloudWatchClient

autowiredEnabled (advanced)

Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.

true

boolean

healthCheckConsumerEnabled (health)

Used for enabling or disabling all consumer based health checks from this component.

true

boolean

healthCheckProducerEnabled (health)

Used for enabling or disabling all producer based health checks from this component. Notice: Camel has by default disabled all producer based health-checks. You can turn on producer checks globally by setting camel.health.producersEnabled=true.

true

boolean

proxyHost (proxy)

To define a proxy host when instantiating the CW client.

String

proxyPort (proxy)

To define a proxy port when instantiating the CW client.

Integer

proxyProtocol (proxy)

To define a proxy protocol when instantiating the CW client.

Enum values:

  • HTTP

  • HTTPS

HTTPS

Protocol

accessKey (security)

Amazon AWS Access Key.

String

profileCredentialsName (security)

If using a profile credentials provider, this parameter will set the profile name.

String

secretKey (security)

Amazon AWS Secret Key.

String

sessionToken (security)

Amazon AWS Session Token used when the user needs to assume an IAM role.

String

trustAllCertificates (security)

If we want to trust all certificates in case of overriding the endpoint.

false

boolean

useDefaultCredentialsProvider (security)

Set whether the S3 client should expect to load credentials through a default credentials provider or to expect static credentials to be passed in.

false

boolean

useProfileCredentialsProvider (security)

Set whether the Cloudwatch client should expect to load credentials through a profile credentials provider.

false

boolean

useSessionCredentials (security)

Set whether the CloudWatch client should expect to use Session Credentials. This is useful in a situation in which the user needs to assume an IAM role for doing operations in CloudWatch.

false

boolean

Endpoint Options

The AWS CloudWatch endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

aws2-cw:namespace

With the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

namespace (producer)

Required The metric namespace.

String

Query Parameters (20 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

name (producer)

The metric name.

String

overrideEndpoint (producer)

Set the need for overriding the endpoint. This option needs to be used in combination with the uriEndpointOverride option.

false

boolean

region (producer)

The region in which CW client needs to work. When using this parameter, the configuration will expect the lowercase name of the region (for example, ap-east-1) You’ll need to use the name Region.EU_WEST_1.id().

Enum values:

  • ap-south-2

  • ap-south-1

  • eu-south-1

  • eu-south-2

  • us-gov-east-1

  • me-central-1

  • il-central-1

  • ca-central-1

  • eu-central-1

  • us-iso-west-1

  • eu-central-2

  • eu-isoe-west-1

  • us-west-1

  • us-west-2

  • af-south-1

  • eu-north-1

  • eu-west-3

  • eu-west-2

  • eu-west-1

  • ap-northeast-3

  • ap-northeast-2

  • ap-northeast-1

  • me-south-1

  • sa-east-1

  • ap-east-1

  • cn-north-1

  • ca-west-1

  • us-gov-west-1

  • ap-southeast-1

  • ap-southeast-2

  • us-iso-east-1

  • ap-southeast-3

  • ap-southeast-4

  • us-east-1

  • us-east-2

  • cn-northwest-1

  • us-isob-east-1

  • aws-global

  • aws-cn-global

  • aws-us-gov-global

  • aws-iso-global

  • aws-iso-b-global

String

timestamp (producer)

The metric timestamp.

Instant

unit (producer)

The metric unit.

String

uriEndpointOverride (producer)

Set the overriding uri endpoint. This option needs to be used in combination with overrideEndpoint option.

String

value (producer)

The metric value.

Double

lazyStartProducer (producer (advanced))

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

amazonCwClient (advanced)

Autowired To use the AmazonCloudWatch as the client.

CloudWatchClient

proxyHost (proxy)

To define a proxy host when instantiating the CW client.

String

proxyPort (proxy)

To define a proxy port when instantiating the CW client.

Integer

proxyProtocol (proxy)

To define a proxy protocol when instantiating the CW client.

Enum values:

  • HTTP

  • HTTPS

HTTPS

Protocol

accessKey (security)

Amazon AWS Access Key.

String

profileCredentialsName (security)

If using a profile credentials provider, this parameter will set the profile name.

String

secretKey (security)

Amazon AWS Secret Key.

String

sessionToken (security)

Amazon AWS Session Token used when the user needs to assume an IAM role.

String

trustAllCertificates (security)

If we want to trust all certificates in case of overriding the endpoint.

false

boolean

useDefaultCredentialsProvider (security)

Set whether the S3 client should expect to load credentials through a default credentials provider or to expect static credentials to be passed in.

false

boolean

useProfileCredentialsProvider (security)

Set whether the Cloudwatch client should expect to load credentials through a profile credentials provider.

false

boolean

useSessionCredentials (security)

Set whether the CloudWatch client should expect to use Session Credentials. This is useful in a situation in which the user needs to assume an IAM role for doing operations in CloudWatch.

false

boolean

Required CW component options

You have to provide the amazonCwClient in the Registry or your accessKey and secretKey to access the Amazon’s CloudWatch.

Message Headers

The AWS CloudWatch component supports 8 message header(s), which is/are listed below:

Name Description Default Type

CamelAwsCwMetricNamespace (producer)

Constant: METRIC_NAMESPACE

The Amazon CW metric namespace.

String

CamelAwsCwMetricName (producer)

Constant: METRIC_NAME

The Amazon CW metric name.

String

CamelAwsCwMetricValue (producer)

Constant: METRIC_VALUE

The Amazon CW metric value.

Double

CamelAwsCwMetricUnit (producer)

Constant: METRIC_UNIT

The Amazon CW metric unit.

String

CamelAwsCwMetricTimestamp (producer)

Constant: METRIC_TIMESTAMP

The Amazon CW metric timestamp.

Date

CamelAwsCwMetricDimensions (producer)

Constant: METRIC_DIMENSIONS

A map of dimension names and dimension values.

Map

CamelAwsCwMetricDimensionName (producer)

Constant: METRIC_DIMENSION_NAME

The Amazon CW metric dimension name.

String

CamelAwsCwMetricDimensionValue (producer)

Constant: METRIC_DIMENSION_VALUE

The Amazon CW metric dimension value.

String

Usage

Static credentials, Default Credential Provider and Profile Credentials Provider

You have the possibility of avoiding the usage of explicit static credentials by specifying the useDefaultCredentialsProvider option and set it to true.

The order of evaluation for Default Credentials Provider is the following:

  • Java system properties - aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey.

  • Environment variables - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

  • Web Identity Token from AWS STS.

  • The shared credentials and config files.

  • Amazon ECS container credentials - loaded from the Amazon ECS if the environment variable AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI is set.

  • Amazon EC2 Instance profile credentials.

You have also the possibility of using Profile Credentials Provider, by specifying the useProfileCredentialsProvider option to true and profileCredentialsName to the profile name.

Only one of static, default and profile credentials could be used at the same time.

For more information about this you can look at AWS credentials documentation

Advanced CloudWatchClient configuration

If you need more control over the CloudWatchClient instance configuration you can create your own instance and refer to it from the URI:

from("direct:start")
.to("aws2-cw://namespace?amazonCwClient=#client");

The #client refers to a CloudWatchClient in the Registry.

Dependencies

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml.

pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-aws2-cw</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>

where ${camel-version} must be replaced by the actual version of Camel.

Examples

Producer Example

from("direct:start")
  .to("aws2-cw://http://camel.apache.org/aws-cw");

and sends something like

exchange.getIn().setHeader(Cw2Constants.METRIC_NAME, "ExchangesCompleted");
exchange.getIn().setHeader(Cw2Constants.METRIC_VALUE, "2.0");
exchange.getIn().setHeader(Cw2Constants.METRIC_UNIT, "Count");

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using aws2-cw with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-aws2-cw-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 25 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

camel.component.aws2-cw.access-key

Amazon AWS Access Key.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.amazon-cw-client

To use the AmazonCloudWatch as the client. The option is a software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatch.CloudWatchClient type.

CloudWatchClient

camel.component.aws2-cw.autowired-enabled

Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.

true

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.configuration

The component configuration. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.aws2.cw.Cw2Configuration type.

Cw2Configuration

camel.component.aws2-cw.enabled

Whether to enable auto configuration of the aws2-cw component. This is enabled by default.

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.health-check-consumer-enabled

Used for enabling or disabling all consumer based health checks from this component.

true

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.health-check-producer-enabled

Used for enabling or disabling all producer based health checks from this component. Notice: Camel has by default disabled all producer based health-checks. You can turn on producer checks globally by setting camel.health.producersEnabled=true.

true

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.lazy-start-producer

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.name

The metric name.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.override-endpoint

Set the need for overriding the endpoint. This option needs to be used in combination with the uriEndpointOverride option.

false

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.profile-credentials-name

If using a profile credentials provider, this parameter will set the profile name.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.proxy-host

To define a proxy host when instantiating the CW client.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.proxy-port

To define a proxy port when instantiating the CW client.

Integer

camel.component.aws2-cw.proxy-protocol

To define a proxy protocol when instantiating the CW client.

https

Protocol

camel.component.aws2-cw.region

The region in which CW client needs to work. When using this parameter, the configuration will expect the lowercase name of the region (for example, ap-east-1) You’ll need to use the name Region.EU_WEST_1.id().

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.secret-key

Amazon AWS Secret Key.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.session-token

Amazon AWS Session Token used when the user needs to assume an IAM role.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.timestamp

The metric timestamp.

Instant

camel.component.aws2-cw.trust-all-certificates

If we want to trust all certificates in case of overriding the endpoint.

false

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.unit

The metric unit.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.uri-endpoint-override

Set the overriding uri endpoint. This option needs to be used in combination with overrideEndpoint option.

String

camel.component.aws2-cw.use-default-credentials-provider

Set whether the S3 client should expect to load credentials through a default credentials provider or to expect static credentials to be passed in.

false

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.use-profile-credentials-provider

Set whether the Cloudwatch client should expect to load credentials through a profile credentials provider.

false

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.use-session-credentials

Set whether the CloudWatch client should expect to use Session Credentials. This is useful in a situation in which the user needs to assume an IAM role for doing operations in CloudWatch.

false

Boolean

camel.component.aws2-cw.value

The metric value.

Double
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