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EBS volume metrics - AWS Compute Optimizer

EBS volume metrics

Compute Optimizer analyzes the following CloudWatch metrics of your EBS volumes.

Metric Description
VolumeReadBytes

The read bytes per second of the EBS volume.
VolumeWriteBytes

The write bytes per second of the EBS volume.
VolumeReadOps

The read operations per second of the EBS volume.
VolumeWriteOps

The write operations per second of the EBS volume.
VolumeIOPSExceededCheck

Reports whether an application consistently attempted to drive IOPS that exceeds the volume's provisioned IOPS performance within the last minute. This metric can be either 0 (provisioned IOPS not exceeded) or 1 (provisioned IOPS exceeded).

Note

Supported for all volume types, except magnetic (standard), attached to Nitro instances. Not supported with Multi-Attach enabled volumes. Not published for volumes attached to Amazon ECS and Fargate tasks.
VolumeThroughputExceededCheck

Reports whether an application consistently attempted to drive throughput that exceeds the volume's provisioned throughput performance within the last minute. This metric can be either 0 (provisioned throughput not exceeded) or 1 (provisioned throughput exceeded).

Note

Supported for all volume types, except magnetic (standard), attached to Nitro instances. Not supported with Multi-Attach enabled volumes. Not published for volumes attached to Amazon ECS and Fargate tasks.

For more information about these metrics, see Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EBS in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.