Monitoring Construct in Stack in Pipeline Stage

Version

1.7.0

Steps and/or minimal code example to reproduce

My issue is that the monitoring construct runs within a stage and doesn’t deploy any resources.

My steps were:

1. CDK App has a stack CdkPipeline
2. CdkPipeline has a stage CdkPipelineStage
3. CdkPipelineStage includes all stacks
4. Add monitoring stack in CdkPipelineStage

export interface Props extends StackProps {
  constructToMonitor: ConstructType;
}
export class MonitoringStack extends Stack {
  constructor(parent: Construct, name: string, props: Props) {
    super(parent, name, props);

    const { constructToMonitor } = props;

    const monitoring = new MonitoringFacade(this, 'monFacade', {
      alarmFactoryDefaults: {
        actionsEnabled: true,
        alarmNamePrefix: 'alarm'
      },
      metricFactoryDefaults: {}
    });

    monitoring.monitorScope(constructToMonitor);
    monitoring.monitorBilling();
    monitoring.monitorLambdaFunction({
      lambdaFunction: constructToMonitor.sqsLambdaDlq.consumerLambda
    });
  }
}

1. Nothing gets deployed except for CDK Metadata

The same thing happens if I am adding the monitoring construct within an existent stack with other services.

Is it necessary that I pass the App like in the example or is it also possible when I pass a construct?

Expected behavior

Find all resources within my construct and create alarms, dashboards, etc.

Actual behavior

Nothing will be deployed.

Other details

No response

[wernermorgenstern]

I think when creating new MonitoringFacade, for the dashboardFactory, the sample code used new DefaultDashboardFactory(this, 'MonitoringDashboards', {

The documentation doesn’t show that part at all.

[JannikWempe]

I was able to deploy it now. I put a question in under the discussions for a small improvement which could be done.

@wernermorgenstern could explain how you integrated cdk-monitoring-constructs with CDK pipelines?