Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
You can get monitoring data for your Tape Gateway by using either the AWS Management Console or
the CloudWatch API. The console displays a series of graphs based on the raw data from the
CloudWatch API. The CloudWatch API can also be used through one of the Amazon AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)
Regardless of which method you choose to use to work with metrics, you must specify the following information:
-
The metric dimension to work with. A dimension is a name-value pair that helps you to uniquely identify a metric. The dimensions for Storage Gateway are
GatewayId
andGatewayName
. In the CloudWatch console, you can use theGateway Metrics
view to easily select gateway-specific and tape-specific dimensions. For more information about dimensions, see Dimensions in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. -
The metric name, such as
ReadBytes
.
The following table summarizes the types of Storage Gateway metric data that are available to you.
Amazon CloudWatch Namespace | Dimension | Description |
---|---|---|
AWS/StorageGateway |
GatewayId , GatewayName
|
These dimensions filter for metric data that describes aspects of
the Tape Gateway. You can identify a Tape Gateway to work with by
specifying both the Throughput and latency data of a Tape Gateway is based on all the virtual tapes in the Tape Gateway. Data is available automatically in 5-minute periods at no charge. |
Working with gateway and tape metrics is similar to working with other service metrics. You can find a discussion of some of the most common metrics tasks in the CloudWatch documentation listed following: