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Monitoring EBS storage

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Monitoring EBS storage

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- [Instructor] EBS volumes provide persistent block-level storage for EC2 instances. Monitoring the health of your EBS volumes is important to ensure that your applications hosted on EC2 are functioning correctly and have the right configuration for your workload. Apart from the standard EBS volume checks which are performed automatically CloudWatch can be used to track crucial metrics of your EBS volumes. I'm here at the CloudWatch management console. Let's look at some of the metrics available for monitoring EBS volumes. I'll start by clicking on Metrics on the left navigation pane. And under the All metrics tab I'll click the namespace called EBS. I'll then click the dimension Per-Volume Metrics. Here we can see the different metrics available for each of the EBS volumes being used in this region. Let's start with VolumeReadOps. This is the number of read operations performed on the volume in a given period.…

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