Amazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume health
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This article announces the availability of detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. This new feature provides real-time visibility into the performance of EBS volumes, allowing users to monitor the health of their storage resources and take proactive measures.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Access to 11 metrics at up to per-second granularity for monitoring I/O statistics of EBS volumes
- Visibility into driven I/O and I/O latency histograms
- Ability to identify and troubleshoot application performance bottlenecks related to EBS volume limits
- Availability of detailed performance statistics for EBS volumes by default on Nitro-based EC2 instances across various AWS regions
- Link to documentation for learning more about the available metrics and accessing them using NVMe-CLI tools
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