Ensure Kinesis Data Streams have enhanced monitoring enabled
Enhanced monitoring provides shard-level metrics for throughput, latency, and iterator age for performance optimization.
Security Impact
Without enhanced metrics, identifying hot shards and throughput bottlenecks is difficult.
How to Remediate
Enable enhanced (shard-level) monitoring on Kinesis streams. Create CloudWatch alarms for iterator age and throughput.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-kinesis-3
- Service
- Amazon Kinesis
- Category
- Monitoring
- Severity
- LOW
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