Monitor Amazon SQS message traffic with Datadog

An update has been released to improve monitoring of Amazon SQS, providing better visibility into the health of message queues, their traffic patterns, and the state of messages. This enables users to identify and fix performance issues more effectively. Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a scalable, managed message queue in the AWS suite of services, designed for applications that stream analytics. Key SQS metrics include number_of_messages_sent, number_of_messages_received, number_of_messages_deleted, sent_message_size, approximate_number_of_messages_visible, approximate_number_of_messages_delayed, and approximate_number_of_messages_not_visible. Datadog has created an out-of-the-box screenboard to help users monitor their SQS usage, allowing for visualization of queue performance alongside other AWS services and applications.