# 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](monitor-datasync.md).

## 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](task-reports.md).

You can also visualize your task reports by using Amazon services such as Amazon Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Quick. For more information, see the [Amazon Storage Blog](https://amazonaws-china.com/blogs/storage/derive-insights-from-aws-datasync-task-reports-using-aws-glue-amazon-athena-and-amazon-quicksight/).

## 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](configure-logging.md).