Accessing CloudWatch metrics

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

• The Amazon FSx 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 console

To view metrics using the Amazon FSx 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. Choose Actions > View details.

4. On the Summary page, choose Monitoring and performance to see the metrics 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. File system metrics and Volume metrics report summary-level metrics for individual file systems or volumes. File system detailed metrics and Volume detailed metrics report more granular metrics within a file system or volume. For example, storage capacity that's used by snapshots.

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.