[metrics]: ignoring metric AWS/SNS <any> due to dimensions mismatch

[matsonkepson]

Context information

• AWS service: SNS
• CloudWatch namespace: AWS/SNS
• Link to metrics documentation for this service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-monitoring-using-cloudwatch.html#sns-metric-dimensions
• AWS region of the exporter: eu-central-1
• AWS region of the service: eu-central-1
• Agent version: 0.16.0
• AWS Api Metrics : GetMetricData

Exporter configuration

Config before templating

<snip...>
    sns:
      enabled: true
      aws_namespace: "AWS/SNS"
      aws_dimension_select_regex:
        TopicName: ["mytopicx.*"]
      aws_tag_select:
        resource_type_selection: "sns:topic"
        resource_id_dimension: "TopicName"
      metrics:
        - aws_metric_name: NumberOfMessagesPublished
          aws_dimensions: [TopicName]
          aws_statistics: [Sum]
        - aws_metric_name: NumberOfNotificationsDelivered
          aws_dimensions: [TopicName]
          aws_statistics: [Sum]
        - aws_metric_name: PublishSize
          aws_dimensions: [TopicName]
          aws_statistics: [Average]
        - aws_metric_name: NumberOfNotificationsFailed
          aws_dimensions: [TopicName]
          aws_statistics: [Sum]

Config after templating inside ConfigMap, config.yml

        - aws_namespace: AWS/SNS
          aws_metric_name: NumberOfMessagesPublished
          aws_dimensions:
            - TopicName
          aws_statistics:
            - Sum
          aws_tag_select:
            resource_type_selection: "sns:topic"
            resource_id_dimension: TopicName
          aws_dimension_select_regex:
              TopicName:
              - mytopicx.*
        - aws_namespace: AWS/SNS
          aws_metric_name: NumberOfNotificationsDelivered
          aws_dimensions:
            - TopicName
          aws_statistics:
            - Sum
          aws_tag_select:
            resource_type_selection: "sns:topic"
            resource_id_dimension: TopicName
          aws_dimension_select_regex:
              TopicName:
              - mytopicx.*
        - aws_namespace: AWS/SNS
          aws_metric_name: PublishSize
          aws_dimensions:
            - TopicName
          aws_statistics:
            - Average
          aws_tag_select:
            resource_type_selection: "sns:topic"
            resource_id_dimension: TopicName
          aws_dimension_select_regex:
              TopicName:
              - mytopicx.*
        - aws_namespace: AWS/SNS
          aws_metric_name: NumberOfNotificationsFailed
          aws_dimensions:
            - TopicName
          aws_statistics:
            - Sum
          aws_tag_select:
            resource_type_selection: "sns:topic"
            resource_id_dimension: TopicName
          aws_dimension_select_regex:
              TopicName:
              - mytopicx.*

Exporter logs

Feb 05, 2025 8:04:51 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/SNS:NumberOfMessagesPublished due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 05, 2025 8:04:52 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/SNS:NumberOfNotificationsDelivered due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 05, 2025 8:04:52 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/SNS:PublishSize due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 05, 2025 8:04:52 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/SNS:NumberOfNotificationsFailed due to dimensions mismatch

What do you expect to happen?

Metrics are getting scraped or no Warning is shown

What happened instead?

Instead I am getting warning logs inside pod

Screen from CloudWatch web console

[matsonkepson]

I see now that there are new warnings appearing so this may be at the AWS side directly

WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:Count due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 10, 2025 9:22:34 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:Latency due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 10, 2025 9:22:34 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:IntegrationLatency due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 10, 2025 9:22:34 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:4XXError due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 10, 2025 9:22:34 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:5XXError due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 10, 2025 9:22:34 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:4XXError due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 10, 2025 9:22:34 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:5XXError due to dimensions mismatch
Feb 10, 2025 9:22:34 AM io.prometheus.cloudwatch.DefaultDimensionSource listDimensions
WARNING: (listDimensions) ignoring metric AWS/ApiGateway:Latency due to dimensions mismatch