Accessing CloudWatch metrics

You can access Amazon FSx for Lustre metrics for CloudWatch in the following ways:

• The Amazon FSx for Lustre console.

• The CloudWatch console.

• The CloudWatch command line interface (CLI).

• The CloudWatch API.

The following procedures show you how to access the metrics using these tools.

Using the Amazon FSx for Lustre console

To view metrics using the Amazon FSx for Lustre console

1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

2. From the navigation pane, choose File systems, then choose the file system that has the metrics that you want to view.

3. On the Summary page, choose Monitoring & performance to see the metrics for your file system.

   There are four tabs on the Monitoring & performance panel.

   • Choose Summary (the default tab) to display any active warnings, CloudWatch alarms, and graphs for File system activity.

   • Choose Storage to view storage capacity, utilization metrics, and active warnings.

   • Choose Performance to view file server and storage performance metrics, and active warnings.

   • Choose CloudWatch alarms to view graphs of any alarms configured for your file system.

Using the CloudWatch console

To view metrics using the CloudWatch console

1. Open the CloudWatch console.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.

3. Select the FSx namespace.

4. (Optional) To view a metric, enter its name in the search field.

5. (Optional) To explore metrics, select the category that best matches your question.

Using the AWS CLI

To access metrics from the AWS CLI

• Use the list-metrics command with the --namespace "AWS/FSx" namespace. For more information, see the AWS CLI Command Reference.

Using the CloudWatch API

To access metrics from the CloudWatch API

• Call GetMetricStatistics. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.