Monitoring your transfers - Amazon DataSync
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Monitoring your transfers

Amazon DataSync provides several monitoring options to help you validate and debug your transfer.

Monitoring your transfers with CloudWatch metrics

You can create custom CloudWatch dashboards with metrics from your DataSync task executions. For more information, see Monitoring data transfers with Amazon CloudWatch metrics.

Monitoring your transfers with task reports

If you’re transferring millions of files or objects, considering using task reports. Task reports provide detailed information about what DataSync attempts to transfer, skip, verify, and delete during a task execution. For more information, see Monitoring your data transfers with task reports.

You can also visualize your task reports by using Amazon services such as Amazon Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight. For more information, see the Amazon Storage Blog.

Monitoring your transfers with CloudWatch Logs

At minimum, we recommend that you configure your task to log basic information and transfer errors. For more information, see Monitoring data transfers with Amazon CloudWatch Logs.