Amazon SQS

Least Privileged User

Navigate to the AWS console and create an IAM user with programmatic access. The user will need the following permissions. You can create a policy specifically for these permissions and apply the permissions to the user.

For more information, see: High Level AWS Source Configuration

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sqs:GetQueueUrl",
                "sqs:ListDeadLetterSourceQueues",
                "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
                "sqs:ListQueueTags",
                "sqs:ListQueues"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:sqs:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor1",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Connection Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
Region
Access Key ID	Required
Secret Access Key	Required
Additional Threads		The number of additional threads allowed to be utilized during collection.
Request Timeout (seconds)		The number of seconds to allow for the API to return a response.
Collect CloudWatch Metrics
CloudWatch Historic Mode		If enabled, retrieves a history of data points from CloudWatch. Otherwise, collects only the most recent data point for each metric.

Metrics

Queue

Name	Description
Approximate Age of Oldest Message (Seconds)	The approximate age of the oldest non-deleted message in the queue.
Approximate Number of Delayed Messages	The number of messages in the queue that are delayed and not available for reading immediately. This can happen when the queue is configured as a delay queue or when a message has been sent with a delay parameter.
Approximate Number of Hidden Messages	The number of messages that are "in flight." Messages are considered in flight if they have been sent to a client but have not yet been deleted or have not yet reached the end of their visibility window.
Approximate Number of Messages	The approximate number of visible messages in a queue.
Approximate Number of Visible Messages	The number of messages available for retrieval from the queue.
ARN	The Amazon Resource Name of the Queue.
Content Based Deduplication	Whether content-based deduplication is enabled for the queue.
Created Timestamp (Seconds)	The time when the queue was created (epoch time).
Dead Letter Target ARN	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the dead-letter queue to which Amazon SQS moves messages after the value of maxReceiveCount is exceeded.
Delay	The default delay on the queue.
First-In First-Out	Whether the queue is FIFO.
Key Management Service Data Key Reuse Period (Seconds)	The length of time for which Amazon SQS can reuse a data key to encrypt or decrypt messages before calling AWS KMS again.
Key Management Service Master Key ID	The ID of an AWS-managed customer master key (CMK) for Amazon SQS or a custom CMK.
Last Modified Timestamp (Seconds)	The time when the queue was last changed (epoch time).
Maximum Message Size (Bytes)	The size limit of a message before Amazon SQS rejects it.
Maximum Receive Count	The number of times a message is delivered to the source queue before being moved to the dead-letter queue.
Message Retention Period (Seconds)	The length of time for which Amazon SQS retains a message.
Name	The name of the queue
Number of Empty Receives	The number of ReceiveMessage API calls that did not return a message.
Number of Messages Deleted	The number of messages deleted from the queue.
Number of Messages Received	The number of messages returned by calls to the ReceiveMessage API action.
Number of Messages Sent	The number of messages added to a queue.
policy	The policy of the queue.
Receive Message Wait Time (Seconds)	The length of time for which the ReceiveMessage action waits for a message to arrive.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
Sent Message Size (Bytes)	The size of messages added to a queue.
Visibility Timeout (Seconds)	The visibility timeout for the queue.