---
title: Amazon SES monitoring integration
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-simple-email-service-ses-monitoring-integration
---

> #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
>
> Enable the [AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams integration](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-metric-stream/) to monitor all CloudWatch metrics from your AWS services, including custom namespaces. Individual integrations are no longer our recommended option.

[Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/) is a cloud-based service for sending and receiving email. With New Relic's integration with Amazon SES, you can gather metrics and configuration options related to emails sent and received.

## Activate integration [#activate]

To enable this integration follow standard procedures to [Connect AWS services to New Relic](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/infrastructure-integrations/getting-started/connect-aws-integrations-infrastructure).

## Configuration and polling [#polling]

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using [configuration options](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/integrations/new-relic-integrations/getting-started/configure-polling-frequency-data-collection-cloud-integrations).

Default [polling](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-polling-intervals-infrastructure-integrations) information for the Amazon SES integration:

-   New Relic polling interval: 1 minute resolution

## Find and use data [#find-data]

After you [connect your AWS integrations](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/infrastructure-integrations/getting-started/connect-aws-integrations-infrastructure), New Relic will start monitoring your AWS data. To [find and use your data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/integrations/find-use-infrastructure-integration-data), including links to your dashboards and alert settings: Go to **[one.newrelic.com > All capabilities](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure > AWS** and select the integration.

You can [query and explore your data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/using-new-relic/data/understand-data/query-new-relic-data) using these events:

-   `SesConfigurationSetSample`
-   `SesReceiptSample`
-   `SesRegionSample`

## Metric data [#metrics]

This New Relic integration collects the following Amazon SES data. For full descriptions of some of these metrics, see [Amazon's SNS metrics and dimensions](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/sns-metricscollected.html).

| Metric      | Description                                                                 |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `bounce`    | The number of emails permanently rejected by a recipient's mail server.     |
| `click`     | The number of times the recipient clicked a link in an HTML email.          |
| `complaint` | The number of times the recipient marked an email as spam.                  |
| `delivery`  | The number of emails successfully delivered to the recipient's mail server. |
| `open`      | The number of times a recipient opened an HTML email.                       |
| `send`      | The number of emails attempted to be sent.                                  |