Crate aws_sdk_synthetics

You can use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to continually monitor your services. You can create and manage canaries, which are modular, lightweight scripts that monitor your endpoints and APIs from the outside-in. You can set up your canaries to run 24 hours a day, once per minute. The canaries help you check the availability and latency of your web services and troubleshoot anomalies by investigating load time data, screenshots of the UI, logs, and metrics. The canaries seamlessly integrate with CloudWatch ServiceLens to help you trace the causes of impacted nodes in your applications. For more information, see Using ServiceLens to Monitor the Health of Your Applications in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Before you create and manage canaries, be aware of the security considerations. For more information, see Security Considerations for Synthetics Canaries.

Getting Started

Examples are available for many services and operations, check out the examples folder in GitHub.

The SDK provides one crate per AWS service. You must add Tokio as a dependency within your Rust project to execute asynchronous code. To add aws-sdk-synthetics to your project, add the following to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
aws-config = { version = "1.1.7", features = ["behavior-version-latest"] }
aws-sdk-synthetics = "1.22.0"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

Then in code, a client can be created with the following:

use aws_sdk_synthetics as synthetics;

#[::tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), synthetics::Error> {
    let config = aws_config::load_from_env().await;
    let client = aws_sdk_synthetics::Client::new(&config);

    // ... make some calls with the client

    Ok(())
}

See the client documentation for information on what calls can be made, and the inputs and outputs for each of those calls.

Using the SDK

Until the SDK is released, we will be adding information about using the SDK to the Developer Guide. Feel free to suggest additional sections for the guide by opening an issue and describing what you are trying to do.

Getting Help

• GitHub discussions - For ideas, RFCs & general questions
• GitHub issues - For bug reports & feature requests
• Generated Docs (latest version)
• Usage examples

Crate Organization

The entry point for most customers will be Client, which exposes one method for each API offered by Synthetics. The return value of each of these methods is a “fluent builder”, where the different inputs for that API are added by builder-style function call chaining, followed by calling send() to get a Future that will result in either a successful output or a SdkError.

Some of these API inputs may be structs or enums to provide more complex structured information. These structs and enums live in types. There are some simpler types for representing data such as date times or binary blobs that live in primitives.

All types required to configure a client via the Config struct live in config.

The operation module has a submodule for every API, and in each submodule is the input, output, and error type for that API, as well as builders to construct each of those.

There is a top-level Error type that encompasses all the errors that the client can return. Any other error type can be converted to this Error type via the From trait.

The other modules within this crate are not required for normal usage.

Modules

• client
  Client for calling Synthetics.
• config
  Configuration for Synthetics.
• error
  Common errors and error handling utilities.
• meta
  Information about this crate.
• operation
  All operations that this crate can perform.
• primitives
  Primitives such as Blob or DateTime used by other types.
• types
  Data structures used by operation inputs/outputs.

Structs

• Client
  Client for Synthetics
• Config
  Configuration for a aws_sdk_synthetics service client.

Enums

• Error
  All possible error types for this service.