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Description

Ensure that CloudWatch Metrics are enabled for the AWS Athena Workgroup. This setting provides visibility into query performance and operational behavior, enabling effective monitoring, diagnostics, and optimization.

Rationale​

Enabling CloudWatch Metrics for Athena Workgroups allows for:

  1. Performance Monitoring: Track indicators such as query execution time, data scanned, and bytes returned to identify inefficiencies and performance bottlenecks.
  2. Operational Insights: Understand usage trends, monitor workgroup activity, and detect anomalies or abnormal query patterns.
  3. Proactive Troubleshooting: Set up alarms and dashboards in CloudWatch based on Athena metrics to detect and respond to errors, timeouts, or degraded performance.

By enabling CloudWatch Metrics, administrators can proactively manage and optimize Athena workgroup performance, ensuring reliable and efficient query execution.

Impact​

Enabling CloudWatch Metrics may incur additional costs, depending on the volume and frequency of metrics published.

Audit​

This policy flags an Athena Workgroup as INCOMPLIANT when Config: Publish Cloud Watch Metrics field is set to Disabled.