AWS SQS Prometheus Exporter

A Prometheus metrics exporter for AWS SQS queues

A few words of Thanks: Most of the code in this repo is borrowed from ashiddo11/sqs-exporter with bundle of thanks and love 🙏 ❤️.

We didn't submit this as a pull request to the original repository, since:

1. we have added Prometheus client. Whereas, some users of the original repository may not be using Prometheus at all.
2. the owner of the original repository seems to be no longer actively maintaining the repo, and we needed the change as soon as possible.

Metrics

Metric	Labels	Description
sqs_messages_visible	Queue Name	Number of messages available
sqs_messages_delayed	Queue Name	Number of messages delayed
sqs_messages_not_visible	Queue Name	Number of messages in flight

For more information see the AWS SQS Documentation

Configuration

Credentials to AWS are provided in the following order:

• Environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
• Shared credentials file (~/.aws/credentials)
• IAM role for Amazon EC2

For more information see the AWS SDK Documentation

AWS IAM permissions

The app needs sqs list and read access to the sqs policies

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sqs:ListQueues",
                "sqs:GetQueueUrl",
                "sqs:ListDeadLetterSourceQueues",
                "sqs:ReceiveMessage",
                "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
                "sqs:ListQueueTags"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Environment Variables

Variable	Default Value	Description
PORT	9434	The port for metrics server
INTERVAL	1	The interval in minutes to get the status of SQS queues
ENDPOINT	metrics	The metrics endpoint
KEEP_RUNNING	true	The flag to terminate the service in case of monitoring error

Running

docker run -e INTERVAL=5 -e KEEP_RUNNING=false -d -p 9434:9434 candisio/sqs-prometheus-exporter

You can provide the AWS credentials as environment variables depending upon your security rules configured in AWS;

docker run -d -p 9384:9384 -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<access_key> -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret_key> -e AWS_REGION=<region> candisio/sqs-prometheus-exporter