Monitoring tools - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Automated toolsManual monitoring tools
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Monitoring tools

Amazon provides various tools that you can use to monitor Amazon FSx. You can configure some of these tools to do the monitoring for you, whereas some of the tools require manual intervention. We recommend that you automate monitoring tasks as much as possible.

Automated monitoring tools

You can use the following automated monitoring tools to watch Amazon FSx and report when something is wrong:

  • Amazon CloudWatch Alarms – Watch a single metric over a time period that you specify, and perform one or more actions based on the value of the metric relative to a given threshold over a number of time periods. The action is a notification sent to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic or Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy. CloudWatch alarms do not invoke actions simply because they are in a particular state; the state must have changed and been maintained for a specified number of periods. For more information, see Monitoring metrics with Amazon CloudWatch.

  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs – Monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon CloudTrail or other sources. For more information, see What Is Amazon CloudWatch Logs? in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide.

  • Amazon CloudTrail Log Monitoring – Share log files between accounts, monitor CloudTrail log files in real time by sending them to CloudWatch Logs, write log processing applications in Java, and validate that your log files have not changed after delivery by CloudTrail. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail Log Files in the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.

Manual monitoring tools

Another important part of monitoring Amazon FSx involves manually monitoring those items that the Amazon CloudWatch alarms don't cover. The Amazon FSx, CloudWatch, and other Amazon console dashboards provide an at-a-glance view of the state of your Amazon environment.

The Amazon FSx console's Monitoring & performance dashboards show:

  • Current FSx for Windows File Server warnings and CloudWatch alarms

  • Graphs showing a summary of file system activity

  • Graphs of file system storage capacity and utilization

  • Graphs of file server and storage volume performance

  • CloudWatch alarms

The CloudWatch home page shows:

  • Current alarms and status

  • Graphs of alarms and resources

  • Service health status

In addition, you can use CloudWatch to do the following:

  • Create customized dashboards to monitor the services you use.

  • Graph metric data to troubleshoot issues and discover trends.

  • Search and browse all your Amazon resource metrics.

  • Create and edit alarms to be notified of problems.

For more information about the Amazon FSx Monitoring & performance dashboard, see How to use FSx for Windows File Server metrics.