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Elastic Block Store (EBS) metrics

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Ensure your cloud platform is configured in SolarWinds Observability to collect this service's data. See Add an AWS cloud account. CloudWatch metrics must also be enabled for this service in the AWS Console for the metric data to be available.

Many of the collected metrics from AWS EBS entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the AWS EBS metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type AWS.EBS in the search box.

Metric Units Description
sw.metrics.healthscore Percent (%)

Health score. A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction.

To view the health score for AWS EBS entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select awsebs.

AWS.EBS.AverageReadLatency

AverageReadLatency. The average time required to complete a read request during the specified time period.

AWS.EBS.AverageWriteLatency

AverageWriteLatency. The average time required to complete a write request during the specified time period.

AWS.EBS.BurstBalance Percent (%)

Used with General Purpose SSD (gp2), Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) and Cold HDD (sc1) volumes only. Provides information about the percentage of I/O credits (for gp2) or throughput credits (for st1 and sc1) remaining in the burst bucket.

AWS.EBS.VolumeConsumedReadWriteOps Count

VolumeConsumedReadWriteOps. The total amount of read and write operations (normalized to 256K capacity units) consumed during the specified time period.

AWS.EBS.VolumeIdleTime seconds (s)

The total number of seconds in a specified period of time when no read or write operations were submitted.

AWS.EBS.VolumeQueueLength Count

VolumeQueueLength. The number of read and write operation requests waiting to be completed during the specified time period.

AWS.EBS.VolumeReadBytes Binary Bytes

VolumeReadBytes. The total number of bytes transferred by read operations during the specified time period.

AWS.EBS.VolumeReadOps Count

VolumeReadOps. The total number of read operations during the specified time period. Read operations are counted on completion.

AWS.EBS.VolumeThroughputPercentage Percent (%)

VolumeThroughputPercentage. The percentage of I/O operations per second (IOPS) delivered of the total IOPS provisioned for an Amazon EBS volume.

AWS.EBS.VolumeTotalReadTime seconds (s)

The total number of seconds spent by input operations that completed in a specified period of time.

AWS.EBS.VolumeTotalWriteTime seconds (s)

The total number of seconds spent by output operations that completed in a specified period of time.

AWS.EBS.VolumeWriteBytes Binary Bytes

VolumeWriteBytes. The total number of bytes transferred by write operations during the specified time period.

AWS.EBS.VolumeWriteOps Count

VolumeWriteOps. The total number of write operations during the specified time period. Write operations are counted on completion.