AWS services publish many metrics automatically, but not your business events: orders placed, payments declined, items in a cart, time spent calling a partner API. Custom metrics let you publish those numbers to Amazon CloudWatch so you can graph them, put them on dashboards and alarm on them just like built-in metrics.
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