@itsyndicate/backstage-plugin-aws-metricdashboards-backend

AWS Metric Dashboards Backend

Description

The AWS Metric Dashboards backend plugin retrieves and stores metric data for various AWS resources. It gathers metrics across AWS regions, allowing users to monitor and analyze AWS CloudWatch metrics for multiple services, including EC2, DynamoDB, EBS, RDS, and SQS.

Installation

1. Install the backend plugin:

   yarn --cwd packages/backend add @internal/backstage-plugin-aws-metricdashboards-backend
   

2. Add AWS configuration to your environment or app-config.yaml:

   aws:
     regions:
       - us-east-1
       - us-west-2
   

3. Set AWS access credentials as environment variables:

   export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your-access-key-id
   export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your-secret-access-key
   

4. Register the plugin in packages/backend/src/index.ts:

   const backend = createBackend();
   // ...
   backend.add(import('@internal/backstage-plugin-aws-metricdashboards-backend'));