CloudWatch UI and docs totally different?

Question

I'm trying to figure out a super simple statistic in CloudWatch: Get the total number of SES complaint / email sent for the time of the account.

I'm reading the docs and it's about a totally different UI that I see. Basically I cannot use the docs for anything. Was the UI renewed recently, without the docs being updated? I don't mean just a few buttons, basically it's impossible to follow the guides because the whole UI makes no sense at all. When there are screenshots it's visible that the one I see is totally different.

Also, if possible can you tell me how to get this SES metric? I suspect Reputation.ComplaintRate is wrong as the value  never goes down, only up, which makes no sense.

Answer

We can create an alarm using account metrics and notify us using SNS via email or SMS endpoint when the threshold reaches.

[+] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/reputationdashboard-cloudwatch-alarm.html

Although in the above document it mentions about only metrics to create alarms that notify you when your bounce or complaint rates reach levels that could impact your account's ability to send email. However you can configure Cloudwatch Alarm for Account metrics such as "Send".

Kindly follow below steps to create an Alarm when email sending reaches 45K in 24 hours.

1. Go to your CloudWatch console, click on All Alarms
2. Click on Create Alarm.
3. Select the metric 
4. Go to SES -> Click Account Metrics
5. Click Metric name as "Send" and Select Metric
6. Select Statistic: Sum and  Period: 1 day
7. Keep the Condition Threshold type: Static and  Whenever Send is: Greater than: 45000
8. Click Next and keep it as Alarm state.
9. You need to select an SNS topic or create a New one and provide the email topic to which you want this alarm to be notified.
10. Once created the SNS topic or Selected an existing one click Next provide Name and description of the Alarm.

Please make sure to create the CW alarm in the same region as your SES account.

CloudWatch UI and docs totally different?

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