AWS CloudWatch Node Client

Getting Started

Install:

npm install ironmq

The Basics

Put a value:

var cw = require('simple-cloudwatch')

cw('key', 'secret')
  .namespace('ServerResponse')      // Namespace Grouping
  .metric('Latency')                // Metric Grouping (easy to see on one graph)
  .unit('Seconds')                  // Uh, the units
  .dimensions({ Host: 'Big'         // sub grouping withing a metric
              , App : 'small'})
  .put(87                           // the actual value logged
    , function callBack(err
                    , reqID         // reqID from AWS
                    , obj) {})      // the body XML as json      

Get values:

var cw = require('simple-cloudwatch')

cw('key', 'secret')
  .namespace('ServerResponse')      // Namespace Grouping
  .metric('Latency')                // Metric Grouping (easy to see on one graph)
  .unit('Seconds')                  // Uh, the units
  .dimensions({ Host: 'Big'         // sub grouping withing a metric
              , App : 'small'})
  .get(function callBack(err
                    , obj) {})      // the itmes as json 

A little bit more

The level of organization is

• key/secrete
• namespace
• metric

Each level is a function, so while you can chain everything, you can also pass the function on to someone else.

var cw = require('simple-cloudwatch')

var put = cw('key', 'secret')
            .namespace('ServerResponse')
            .metric('Latency')
            .unit('Seconds')
            .put

put(87)
put(53)
goDoSomethingAndPut(info, put, cb)

put and get both take an options argument to override any curried values. However you can not change key, namespace, or metrics with this option

var cw = require('simple-cloudwatch')

var put = cw('key', 'secret')
            .namespace('ServerResponse')
            .metric('Latency')
            .unit('Seconds')
            .put

put(1024, {unit:'bytes'}, cb)

If you call put without a callback it assumes that you want to build a batch of puts to send all at once. In this case it returns an object to alow you to do that. This version of put will take almost any combination of objects and arrays, and look for a callback at the end

var cw  = require('simple-cloudwatch')
  , ns  = cw('key', 'secret')
            .namespace('ServerResponse')
  , put = ns.metric('Latency')
            .unit('Seconds')
            .put

ns.put([put(1024, {unit:'bytes'}, put(87)], cb)

Both metric and namespace have a list function to return posible values for get