AppRunner CloudWatch Alarm not showing metrics

Question

I'm trying to create an alarm for AppRunner. My AppRunner service is running fine.

Here is the code for the alarm. It keeps showing "Insufficient data". Weirdly enough, creating an alarm manually also results in the same no data message. I've tried memory metrics but same thing. Any ideas?

resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "apprunner_cpu" {
  alarm_name                = "<redacted>"
  comparison_operator       = "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold"
  evaluation_periods        = 2
  metric_name               = "CPUUtilization"
  namespace                 = "AWS/AppRunner"
  period                    = 60
  statistic                 = "Average"
  threshold                 = 80
  alarm_description         = "AppRunner CPU utilization"
  insufficient_data_actions = []

  dimensions = {
    ServiceName = aws_apprunner_service.main.service_name
    ServiceID   = aws_apprunner_service.main.service_id
  }
}

Answer 1

Ok, so I discovered that after hitting some consistent requests during the defined evaluation period, data was loaded into the alarm. I can assume that this is due to the idle container features.

From the App Runner pricing page:

When your application is idle, you pay per GB of memory for provisioned container instances which keep your application warm and eliminate cold starts. When requests come in, your application responds in milliseconds, and you pay for the vCPU and memory consumed by your active container instances as your application is processing requests.

Found some more info on this issue.