Cloud watch metrics unavailable if not triggered

Hey Ali,

So Route 53 service is a Global service and the metrics are only available in us-east-1 region(1) - if you are checking other regions please check your region. Further, if you still cannot find DNSSECInternalFailure and DNSSECKeySigningKeysNeedingAction metrics on us-east-1 region then that means those metrics haven't been created yet because the conditions of those metrics haven't occurred.

To create Alarm based on a Metric that is not yet created - you can select one of the Existing metrics of the Route 53 Hosted zone that you are monitoring and edit the Source page when on Metric Selection to edit the Metric name from the source code and Update it. Then you can create the Alarm on a metric that is not yet created, and when the metric is created it will be automatically populated on the Alarm. Important thing is to configure the metric correctly with correct dimensions included.

According to (1), you only need to specify HostedZoneId dimension to the DNSSECInternalFailure and DNSSECKeySigningKeysNeedingAction metrics.

Hope this helps and happy to discuss further.

Thanks