Monitoring tools for Amazon EBS - Amazon EBS

Monitoring tools for Amazon EBS

Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon Elastic Block Store and your other AWS solutions. AWS provides the following monitoring tools to watch Amazon EBS, report when something is wrong, and take automatic actions when appropriate:

  • AWS CloudTrail captures API calls and related events made by or on behalf of your AWS account and delivers the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. You can identify which users and accounts called AWS, the source IP address from which the calls were made, and when the calls occurred. The APIs to manage your EBS volumes and snapshots are part of the Amazon EC2 API. For more information about CloudTrail and the Amazon EC2 API, see Log Amazon EC2 API calls using AWS CloudTrail in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

  • Amazon CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. You can collect and track metrics, create customized dashboards, and set alarms that notify you or take actions when a specified metric reaches a threshold that you specify. For example, you can have CloudWatch track CPU usage or other metrics of your Amazon EC2 instances and automatically launch new instances when needed. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EBS.

  • Amazon EventBridge can be used to automate your AWS services and respond automatically to system events, such as application availability issues or resource changes. Events from AWS services are delivered to EventBridge in near real time. You can write simple rules to indicate which events are of interest to you and which automated actions to take when an event matches a rule. For more information, see Amazon EventBridge events for Amazon EBS.

  • Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics provide real-time I/O performance statistics for Amazon EBS volumes attached to Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instances. For more information, Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics.

  • Amazon GuardDuty helps detect potentially malicious activity in your EC2 instances. GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 scans the EBS volumes attached to your EC2 instances. For more information, see Amazon GuardDuty for Amazon EBS.