AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data, clean it, enrich it, and move it reliably between various data stores.

AWS Glue consists of a central metadata repository known as the AWS Glue Data Catalog, an ETL engine that automatically generates Python or Scala code, and a flexible scheduler that handles dependency resolution, job monitoring, and retries. AWS Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage.

AWS Glue is designed to work with semi-structured data. It introduces a component called a dynamic frame, which you can use in your ETL scripts. A dynamic frame is similar to an Apache Spark dataframe, except that each record is self-describing, so no schema is required initially. With dynamic frames, you get schema flexibility and a set of advanced transformations specifically designed for dynamic frames.

You can convert between dynamic frames and Spark dataframes to take advantage of both AWS Glue and Spark transformations to do the kinds of analysis that you want.

External reference

What Is AWS Glue?

Setup

To set up the AWS integration and discover the AWS service, go to AWS Integration Discovery Profile and select GLUE. AWS Glue databases, tables, crawlers, jobs, DevEndpoints, and MLTransforms are discovered.

Event support

CloudTrail event support

  • Supported
  • Configurable in OpsRamp AWS Integration Discovery Profile.

CloudWatch alarm support

  • Supported
  • Configurable in OpsRamp AWS Integration Discovery Profile.

Supported metrics

OpsRamp MetricMetric Display NameUnitAggregation Type
aws_glue_glue_jvm_heap_usage

Number of memory bytes used by the JVM heap for the driver, the executor identified by executorId, or ALL executors.
glue jvm heap usageNoneAverage
aws_glue_glue_jvm_heap_used

Number of memory bytes used by the JVM heap for the driver, the executor identified by executorId, or ALL executors.
glue jvm heap usedNoneAverage
aws_glue_glue_s3_filesystem_read_bytes

Number of bytes read from Amazon S3 by the driver, an executor identified by executorId, or ALL executors since the previous report (aggregated by the AWS Glue Metrics Dashboard as the number of bytes read during the previous minute).
glue s3 file system read bytesCountAverage
aws_glue_glue_s3_filesystem_write_bytes

Number of bytes written to Amazon S3 by the driver, an executor identified by executorId, or ALL executors since the previous report (aggregated by the AWS Glue Metrics Dashboard as the number of bytes written during the previous minute).
glue s3 filesystem write bytesCountAverage
aws_glue_glue_system_cpuSystemLoad

The fraction of CPU system load used (scale: 0-1) by the driver, an executor identified by executorId, or ALL executors.
glue system cpu System LoadNoneAverage