Setting up CloudWatch dimensions for APIGateway methods in CloudFormation

Question

I have an api say apifortest which has at 10 methods under different paths. Those methods are GET, PUT and POST. What I want to do is create a CloudWatch monitor for these.

I was looking at documentation here

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/api-gateway-metrics-dimensions.html

This is what I had earlier

TestApiCloudWatch:
    Type: "AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm"
    Properties:
        ActionsEnabled: "True"
        AlarmName: "ApiGateway-TestAPI-5XXError-SEV2"
        ComparisonOperator: !FindInMap [APIGatewayCloudWatchMappings, 5XXError-SEV2, ComparisonOperator]
        Dimensions:
            -
                Name: "ApiName"
                Value: "APIForTest"
            -
                Name: "Stage"
                Value: "Prod"
        EvaluationPeriods: !FindInMap [APIGatewayCloudWatchMappings, 5XXError-SEV2, EvaluationPeriods]
        MetricName: !FindInMap [APIGatewayCloudWatchMappings, 5XXError-SEV2, MetricName]
        Namespace: "AWS/ApiGateway"
        Period: !FindInMap [APIGatewayCloudWatchMappings, 5XXError-SEV2, Period]
        Statistic: !FindInMap [APIGatewayCloudWatchMappings, 5XXError-SEV2, Statistic]
        Threshold: !FindInMap [APIGatewayCloudWatchMappings, 5XXError-SEV2, Threshold]

But this alarm is being set At API Level. I want to setup at method level. The documetion does states that we can do so, but it doesn't have any example.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The documentation lists the dimensions you need to use:

• API Name - the name of the API. You already have this.
• Stage - the name of the stage of the API. You already have this.
• Method - The HTTP method (e.g. GET, PUT, DELETE)
• Resource - The resource path (e.g. /foo/bar)