# Using CloudWatch with MediaConvert
Using CloudWatch with MediaConvert

You can use Amazon CloudWatch to gather metrics about your AWS Elemental MediaConvert jobs. Here are some examples of what you can do with CloudWatch:

**Get details about your requests, queues, jobs, and outputs**  
Metrics are grouped according to dimension, including Operation metrics, Queue metrics, and Job metrics.  
+ *Operation metrics* include any errors that occur when you interact with MediaConvert.
+ *Queue metrics* include details about all of your jobs in a given queue, like the total number of jobs, or the total duration of your outputs.
+ *Job metrics* include details about your outputs that you can use to identify trends, statistics, or potential issues with your video workflow.
For more information, see [List of MediaConvert CloudWatch metrics](metrics.md).

**Create CloudWatch dashboards and alarms**  
You can create CloudWatch dashboards to track things for a job queue. For example, you can track transcoding jobs that have completed or that have errors. You can also use metrics such as `StandbyTime` to create alarms to detect if there is a large backlog for a job queue. For more information, see [Creating dashboards and alarms for AWS Elemental MediaConvert using Amazon CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/creating-dashboards-and-alarms-for-aws-elemental-mediaconvert-using-amazon-cloudwatch/).

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# List of MediaConvert CloudWatch metrics
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# List of MediaConvert CloudWatch metrics


AWS Elemental MediaConvert sends the following metrics to CloudWatch at the end of every job.


| Metric name | Unit | Description | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
|  `Errors`  | Count | Tracks errors encountered when making a particular API call.Operations include: `CreateJob`, `GetJob`, `ListJobs`, `ListPresets`, `ListQueues`, `ListTagsForResource`, and `Subscribe` | 
|  `AudioOutputDuration`  | Milliseconds |  The number of milliseconds of audio-only output for a queue.  | 
|  `SDOutputDuration`  | Milliseconds |  The number of milliseconds of standard definition (SD) output for a queue. For the definition of each video resolution category, see the [AWS Elemental MediaConvert pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/pricing).  | 
|  `HDOutputDuration`  | Milliseconds |  The number of milliseconds of high-definition (HD) output for a queue. For the definition of each video resolution category, see the [AWS Elemental MediaConvert pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/pricing).  | 
|  `UHDOutputDuration`  | Milliseconds |  The number of milliseconds of ultra-high-definition (UHD) output for a queue. For the definition of each video resolution category, see the [AWS Elemental MediaConvert pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/pricing).  | 
|  `8KOutputDuration`  | Milliseconds |  The number of milliseconds of 8K output for a queue. For the definition of each video resolution category, see the [AWS Elemental MediaConvert pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/pricing).  | 
|  `JobsCompletedCount`  | Count |  The number of jobs completed in a queue.  | 
|  `JobsCanceled`  | Count |  The number of jobs canceled in a queue.  | 
|  `JobsErroredCount`  | Count |  The number of jobs that failed because of invalid inputs, such as a request to transcode a file that is not in the specified input bucket.  | 
|  `StandbyTime`  | Milliseconds |  The amount of time a job is in a queue before MediaConvert starts processing it, in milliseconds.  | 
|  `TranscodingTime`  | Milliseconds |  The number of milliseconds for MediaConvert to complete transcoding.  | 
|  `BlackVideoDetected`  | Milliseconds |  The total duration of black video frames in your output that are also present in your input in milliseconds. `BlackVideoDetected` does not include any black frames inserted by MediaConvert.  | 
|  `BlackVideoDetectedRatio`  | Ratio |  The ratio of black video frames to the total duration of your output. Higher ratios show outputs with more black frames.  | 
|  `LongestBlackSegmentDetected`  | Milliseconds |  The location in your output with the longest continuous segment of black video frames, in milliseconds.  | 
|  `VideoPaddingInserted`  | Milliseconds |  The total duration of blank frames MediaConvert inserted across all outputs in your job, in milliseconds. Video padding inserts blank frames to help keep audio and video durations aligned. Large `VideoPaddingInserted` values show that more blank frames were inserted. They also show to what extent your input audio tracks either start late, end early, or both.  | 
|  `VideoPaddingInsertedRatio`  | Ratio |  The ratio of blank frames MediaConvert inserted to the overall duration of your output. Higher ratios may signal audio video sync issues in your input.  | 
|  `AvgBitrateTop`  | Bits per second |  The average bitrate of the highest bitrate output in the output group.  | 
|  `AvgBitrateBottom`  | Bits per second |  The average bitrate of the lowest bitrate output in the output group.  | 
|  `QVBRAvgQualityHighBitrate`  | Score |  The average QVBR quality score of the highest bitrate output in the output group.  | 
|  `QVBRAvgQualityLowBitrate`  | Score |  The average QVBR quality score of the lowest bitrate output in the output group.  | 
|  `QVBRMinQualityHighBitrate`  | Score |  The minimum QVBR quality score of the highest bitrate output in the output group.  | 
|  `QVBRMinQualityLowBitrate`  | Score |  The minimum QVBR quality score of the lowest bitrate output in the output group.  |