CloudWatch - How can we monitor the health of a stream?

Question

Hello Aws gurus, 
Quick question for the community, we use IVS for livestreaming and recently a few live have been a bit choppy. We would like to find out if the issue is coming from us or if it is the incoming stream that is not of great quality. Is there a recommendation on how to find this out ? Maybe using cloudwatch somehow? 
thanks for your help

Answer

Amazon IVS provides status to CloudWatch EventBridge.
You may want to review the following links.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/latest/userguide/eventbridge.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/latest/userguide/stream-health.html

You may want to look at metrics like Stream State Changes, Failures, Starvation, etc.

Answer

A lot of good information can be found here: [IVS Troubleshooting FAQs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/latest/userguide/troubleshooting-faqs.html#monitor-metrics-events-stream-starvation).  Also see: [Using Amazon EventBridge with Amazon Interactive Video Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/latest/userguide/eventbridge.html) and [Monitoring Amazon IVS with Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/latest/userguide/cloudwatch.html).

Answer

An additional link for some IVS Health metrics.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-interactive-video-service-high-resolution-metrics/

CloudWatch - How can we monitor the health of a stream?

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