= AWS CloudWatch Component
:doctitle: AWS CloudWatch
:shortname: aws2-cw
:artifactid: camel-aws2-cw
:description: Sending metrics to AWS CloudWatch using AWS SDK version 2.x.
:since: 3.1
:supportlevel: Stable
:component-header: Only producer is supported
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:group: AWS
:camel-spring-boot-name: aws2-cw

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The AWS2 Cloudwatch component allows messages to be sent to an
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/[Amazon CloudWatch] metrics. The
implementation of the Amazon API is provided by
the https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava/[AWS SDK].

Prerequisites

You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account, and be
signed up to use Amazon CloudWatch. More information is available at
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/[Amazon CloudWatch].

== URI Format

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aws2-cw://namespace[?options]
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The metrics will be created if they don't already exists. +
 You can append query options to the URI in the following format,
`?options=value&option2=value&...`


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Required CW component options

You have to provide the amazonCwClient in the
Registry or your accessKey and secretKey to access
the https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/[Amazon's CloudWatch].

== Usage

=== Static credentials vs Default Credential Provider

You have the possibility of avoiding the usage of explicit static credentials, by specifying the useDefaultCredentialsProvider option and set it to true.

 - Java system properties - aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey
 - Environment variables - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
 - Web Identity Token from AWS STS.
 - The shared credentials and config files.
 - Amazon ECS container credentials - loaded from the Amazon ECS if the environment variable AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI is set.
 - Amazon EC2 Instance profile credentials. 

For more information about this you can look at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/credentials.html[AWS credentials documentation]

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=== Advanced CloudWatchClient configuration

If you need more control over the `CloudWatchClient` instance
configuration you can create your own instance and refer to it from the
URI:

[source,java]
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from("direct:start")
.to("aws2-cw://namespace?amazonCwClient=#client");
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The `#client` refers to a `CloudWatchClient` in the
Registry.

== Dependencies

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml.

*pom.xml*

[source,xml]
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<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-aws2-cw</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>
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where `${camel-version`} must be replaced by the actual version of Camel.

== Examples

=== Producer Example

[source,java]
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from("direct:start")
  .to("aws2-cw://http://camel.apache.org/aws-cw");
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and sends something like

[source,java]
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exchange.getIn().setHeader(Cw2Constants.METRIC_NAME, "ExchangesCompleted");
exchange.getIn().setHeader(Cw2Constants.METRIC_VALUE, "2.0");
exchange.getIn().setHeader(Cw2Constants.METRIC_UNIT, "Count");
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