New Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring I/O latency of Amazon EBS volumes
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The article announces the availability of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics, VolumeAvgReadLatency and VolumeAvgWriteLatency, to monitor the performance of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. These metrics provide insight into the average latency of read and write I/O operations on EBS volumes, helping identify application performance bottlenecks.
Specifically, the article covers:
- The new CloudWatch metrics VolumeAvgReadLatency and VolumeAvgWriteLatency provide per-minute average read and write I/O latency for EBS volumes.
- These metrics are available by default at no additional charge for all EBS volumes attached to EC2 Nitro instances in all commercial AWS Regions, AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and China Regions.
- The metrics can be used to create customized dashboards and set alarms for monitoring and taking actions based on metric values.
- The new metrics provide visibility into volume latency, enabling users to ensure application resilience and take recovery actions for performance impacts.
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