Enable CloudWatch Contributor Insights

01 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to Amazon DynamoDB console available at https://console.aws.amazon.com/dynamodbv2/.

03 In the main navigation panel, under Dashboard, choose Tables.

04 Click on the name (link) of the Amazon DynamoDB table that you want to examine.

05 Select the Monitor tab to access the monitoring settings available for the selected table.

06 Click on the CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB tab and check the feature status and data graphs. If there are no data graphs, instead the Turn on CloudWatch Contributor Insights button is available and the following message is displayed: CloudWatch Contributor Insights is not active, the CloudWatch Contributor Insights monitoring feature is not enabled for the selected Amazon DynamoDB table.

07 Repeat steps no. 4 – 6 for each Amazon DynamoDB table available within the current AWS region.

08 Change the AWS cloud region from the navigation bar and repeat the Audit process for other regions.

01 Run list-tables command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) with custom query filters to list the name of each Amazon DynamoDB table created in the selected AWS cloud region:

aws dynamodb list-tables
  --region us-east-1
  --output table
  --query 'TableNames'

02 The command output should return a table with the requested table name(s):

--------------------------
|       ListTables       |
+------------------------+
|  cc-product-reviews    |
|  cc-product-inventory  |
+------------------------+

03 Run describe-contributor-insights command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the Amazon DynamoDB table that you want to examine as the identifier parameter and custom query filters to return the CloudWatch Contributor Insights feature status for the selected table:

aws dynamodb describe-contributor-insights 
  --region us-east-1 
  --table-name cc-product-reviews 
  --query 'ContributorInsightsStatus'

04 The command output should the feature status for the selected table:

"DISABLED"

05 Repeat steps no. 3 and 4 for each DynamoDB table available in the selected AWS region.

06 Change the AWS cloud region by updating the --regioncommand parameter value and repeat the Audit process for other regions.

01 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to Amazon DynamoDB console available at https://console.aws.amazon.com/dynamodbv2/.

03 In the main navigation panel, under Dashboard, choose Tables.

04 Click on the name (link) of the Amazon DynamoDB table that you want to configure.

05 Select the Monitor tab to access the monitoring settings available for the selected table.

06 Click on the CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB tab and choose Turn on CloudWatch Contributor Insights to initiate the setup process.

07 In the Manage CloudWatch Contributor Insights settings configuration box, click on the Turn on button for both the base table and the global secondary index (if there is one created), then choose Save changes to apply the configuration changes and enable the CloudWatch Contributor Insights feature. The Contributor Insights data graphs should be visible now on the CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB tab.

08 Repeat steps no. 4 – 7 for each Amazon DynamoDB table that you want to configure, available in the current AWS region.

09 Change the AWS cloud region from the navigation bar and repeat the Remediation process for other regions.

01 Run update-contributor-insights command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the Amazon DynamoDB table that you want to configure as the identifier parameter, to enable the CloudWatch Contributor Insights feature for the selected DynamoDB table its global secondary index:

aws dynamodb update-contributor-insights 
  --region us-east-1
  --table-name cc-product-reviews 
  --index-name cc-product-test-index 
  --contributor-insights-action=ENABLE

02 The command output should return the feature configuration information:

{
	"TableName": "cc-product-reviews",
	"IndexName": "cc-product-test-index ",
	"ContributorInsightsStatus": "ENABLING"
}

03 Repeat steps no. 1 and 2 for each Amazon DynamoDB table that you want to configure, available in the selected AWS region.

04 Change the AWS cloud region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat the Remediation process for other AWS regions.