Monitoring Amazon FSx for Lustre
With Amazon FSx for Lustre, you can monitor activity for your file systems using Amazon CloudWatch metrics.
Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
You can monitor file systems using Amazon CloudWatch, which collects and processes raw data from Amazon FSx for Lustre into readable, near real-time metrics. These statistics are retained for a period of 15 months, so that you can access historical information and gain a better perspective on how your web application or service is performing. By default, Amazon FSx for Lustre metric data is automatically sent to CloudWatch at 1-minute periods. For more information about CloudWatch, see What Is Amazon CloudWatch? in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
As with Amazon EFS, Amazon S3, and Amazon EBS, Amazon FSx for Lustre CloudWatch metrics are reported as raw Bytes. Bytes are not rounded to either a decimal or binary multiple of the unit.
Amazon FSx for Lustre publishes the following metrics into the AWS/FSx
namespace in
CloudWatch. For each metric, Amazon FSx for Lustre emits a data point per disk per
minute. To view aggregate file
system details, you can use the Sum
statistic. Note that the file servers behind
your Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems are spread across multiple disks.
Metric | Description |
---|---|
DataReadBytes |
The number of bytes for file system read operations. The To calculate the average throughput (bytes per second)
for a period, divide the Units:
Valid statistics: |
DataWriteBytes |
The number of bytes for file system write operations. The To calculate the average throughput (bytes per
second) for a period, divide the Units:
Valid statistics: |
DataReadOperations |
The number of read operations. The To calculate the average number of read operations
(operations per second) for a period, divide the Units:
Valid statistics: |
DataWriteOperations |
The number of write operations. The To calculate the average number of write operations
(operations per second) for a period, divide the Units:
Valid statistics: |
MetadataOperations |
The number of metadata operations. The To calculate the average number of metadata operations
(operations per second) for a period, divide the Units:
Valid statistics: |
FreeDataStorageCapacity |
The amount of available storage capacity. The Units:
Valid statistics: |
Amazon FSx for Lustre Dimensions
Amazon FSx for Lustre metrics use the FSx
namespace and provide metrics for a single
dimension, FileSystemId
. A file system's ID can be found using the
aws fsx describe-file-systems
AWS CLI command, and it takes the form of
fs-01234567890123456
.