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Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

By : Tarik Makota, Brian Maguire, Danny Gagne, Rajeev Chakrabarti
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Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

By: Tarik Makota, Brian Maguire, Danny Gagne, Rajeev Chakrabarti

Overview of this book

Amazon Kinesis is a collection of secure, serverless, durable, and highly available purpose-built data streaming services. This data streaming service provides APIs and client SDKs that enable you to produce and consume data at scale. Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis begins with a quick overview of the core concepts of data streams, along with the essentials of the AWS Kinesis landscape. You'll then explore the requirements of the use case shown through the book to help you get started and cover the key pain points encountered in the data stream life cycle. As you advance, you'll get to grips with the architectural components of Kinesis, understand how they are configured to build data pipelines, and delve into the applications that connect to them for consumption and processing. You'll also build a Kinesis data pipeline from scratch and learn how to implement and apply practical solutions. Moving on, you'll learn how to configure Kinesis on a cloud platform. Finally, you’ll learn how other AWS services can be integrated into Kinesis. These services include Redshift, Dynamo Database, AWS S3, Elastic Search, and third-party applications such as Splunk. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll be able to build and deploy your own Kinesis data pipelines with Kinesis Data Streams (KDS), Kinesis Data Firehose (KFH), Kinesis Video Streams (KVS), and Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA).
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Data Streaming and Amazon Kinesis
5
Section 2: Deep Dive into Kinesis
10
Section 3: Integrations

Understanding monitoring in KDF

KDF is tightly integrated with Amazon CloudWatch. We have seen how KDF sends error messages to CloudWatch Logs when enabled. In addition, KDF sends metrics to CloudWatch as well. These help with monitoring different aspects of KDF, depending on the feature enabled and destination configured. You can also set alarms on these metrics to either get notified when the alarms trigger or take some automated action using Lambda functions. Some metrics are common for all destinations and some are specific to each destination. I called out some metrics that are relevant to some destinations earlier. In addition, here are some metrics that KDF supports, to keep an eye on:

  • IncomingBytes—The number of bytes ingested successfully into the delivery stream over the specified time period. Compare this with what you expect the producer to be sending to KDF for reconciliation.
  • IncomingRecords—The number of records ingested successfully into the...