The value to use in an Amazon CloudWatch custom metric dimension. This is used in the PublishMetricsCustomAction. A CloudWatch custom metric dimension is a name/value pair that's part of the identity of a metric.
Network Firewall sets the dimension name to CustomAction and you provide the dimension value.
Dimension is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon Network Firewall, describing 1 property, of which 1 is required. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.
{
"$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-network-firewall/refs/heads/main/json-structure/openapi-dimension-structure.json",
"name": "Dimension",
"description": "<p>The value to use in an Amazon CloudWatch custom metric dimension. This is used in the <code>PublishMetrics</code> <a>CustomAction</a>. A CloudWatch custom metric dimension is a name/value pair that's part of the identity of a metric. </p> <p>Network Firewall sets the dimension name to <code>CustomAction</code> and you provide the dimension value. </p> <p>For more information about CloudWatch custom metric dimensions, see <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/publishingMetrics.html#usingDimensions\">Publishing Custom Metrics</a> in the <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html\">Amazon CloudWatch User Guide</a>.</p>",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Value": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/DimensionValue"
},
{
"description": "The value to use in the custom metric dimension."
}
]
}
},
"required": [
"Value"
]
}
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