Amazon Storage Services Monitoring

Maximize the efficiency and performance of your Amazon Storage Services

Amazon Storage Services allow you to efficiently store, manage, and retrieve data securely at scale. These services cater to a range of storage needs, including object, block, file, and archival storage, helping businesses store vast amounts of data in a cost-effective, scalable, and secure way.

Monitoring these services is essential to ensure the health, performance, and cost-effectiveness of your AWS storage resources. Applications Manager provides support for monitoring for the following Amazon storage services:

• AWS Backup
• AWS Backup Vault
• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
• AWS DRS Source Server
• AWS DRS Recovery Instance
• Elastic File Systems
• S3 Buckets
• FSx File Cache
• Storage Gateway
• Storage Gateway File Share
• Storage Gateway Volume

AWS Backup monitoring

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid environments. It enables organizations to configure backup policies, schedule backups, and manage retention to ensure business continuity and regulatory compliance. With Applications Manager, you can monitor backup plans and jobs at the regional level.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Analyze backup and restore job statistics based on their status and identify failed or incomplete operations proactively to ensure reliability and data protection in backup and restore activities.
• Reduce risks of data loss by monitoring backup and restore success rates and identifying issues affecting backup/restore execution or scheduling.
• Maintain compliance with retention policies by tracking backup lifecycle activities, helping ensure backups are retained and deleted according to organizational requirements.
• Improve operational visibility by tracking trends and performance metrics related to backup, restore, and copy operations across protected AWS resources.
• Minimize recovery risks by receiving alerts on failures or anomalies during backup, restore or copy operations, enabling faster corrective actions and uninterrupted disaster recovery readiness.

AWS Backup Vault monitoring

AWS Backup Vault is a secure storage container used by AWS Backup to store and manage backup recovery points. Backup Vaults help organizations control access, encryption, and retention of backup data for improved security and governance.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Strengthen backup security and governance by monitoring backup vault activity and ensuring recovery points are stored securely.
• Track backup storage utilization effectively by monitoring vault usage trends to optimize storage planning and retention management.
• Monitor backup retention periods and recovery point lifecycle events to prevent unintended data loss.
• Improve compliance management by tracking encrypted backup storage and policy adherence across backup vaults.
• Reduce operational risks by receiving alerts on unusual vault activity, helping maintain secure and reliable backup environments.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) monitoring

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) helps organizations minimize downtime and data loss by enabling fast and reliable recovery of applications and servers to AWS during disasters or outages. Applications Manager monitors the regional DRS environment, providing visibility into source servers and recovery instances at the regional level.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Monitor the source server fleet including Source Servers, Active Source Servers, and Protected Source Servers at the regional level.
• Track key status indicators such as Data Replication State, Last Launch Result, Health, EC2 Instance State, and Failback State.
• Improve visibility into disaster recovery operations by monitoring status changes across protected servers and recovery environments.
• View the Source Servers and Recovery Instances tables to see the list of discovered resources and their current status, as well as detailed insights into performance of these resources once enabled for monitoring.

AWS DRS Source Server monitoring

AWS DRS Source Servers represent the protected on-premises or cloud-based servers continuously replicated to AWS for disaster recovery purposes. Monitoring source servers is essential to ensure successful replication and recovery readiness.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Ensure continuous replication health by monitoring the recovery stats of the source server and detecting issues impacting replication processes.
• Reduce recovery risks by tracking replication progress, lag duration, and backlogs to maintain recovery objectives.
• Identify server-level issues proactively by monitoring resource health and replication anomalies affecting protected workloads.
• Improve disaster recovery reliability by ensuring source servers remain replication-ready at all times.
• Minimize operational disruptions by receiving alerts for replication failures or degraded source server health.

AWS DRS Recovery Instance monitoring

AWS DRS Recovery Instances are the launched recovery workloads used during failover events to restore business operations after disruptions. Monitoring recovery instances helps ensure successful recovery execution and recovery instance availability during disaster scenarios.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Ensure successful recovery operations by monitoring recovery instance health and performance during failover events.
• Maintain recovery instance availability after recovery by detecting performance bottlenecks in recovery environments.
• Validate disaster recovery effectiveness by monitoring recovery status and identifying issues affecting restored workloads.
• Reduce downtime during critical events by receiving alerts on abnormal recovery instance behavior, enabling faster remediation and service restoration.

Amazon Elastic File Systems (EFS) monitoring

Gain complete visibility into the health of your file systems with Applications Manager. Monitor key metrics such as I/O usage, burst credit balance, and metadata activity to optimize file system performance and minimize disruptions.

With Applications Manager's EFS monitor, you can use real-time insights to forecast scaling requirements and maintain application performance without interruptions. Tracking key metrics like Client Connections, Metered I/O activity, and File I/O activity and ensuring balanced workloads across your environment. You can also monitor metadata usage and distribute metadata-intensive operations efficiently to reduce system strain and improve overall file system efficiency.

Learn more about Elastic File Systems (EFS) monitoring.

Amazon S3 Buckets monitoring

With Applications Manager, keep your S3 storage secure and efficient. Monitor bucket-level performance, usage, and security metrics to optimize resource allocation and ensure reliable operations. Monitor storage-related metrics such as bucket size, number of objects, and data transfer rates to maintain cost-efficiency and prevent storage issues. Monitor request latencies, error rates, and data transfer speeds to ensure optimal read/write performance. Get real-time alerts about access control changes and identify potential security risks, ensuring the safety and reliability of your S3 storage resources.

Amazon FSx File Cache monitoring

Ensure the high availability and performance of your Amazon FSx File Cache instances with real-time monitoring. Applications Manager provides insights into the performance, availability, and health of your Amazon FSx File Caching infrastructure.

Amazon Storage Gateway monitoring

Applications Manager’s Amazon Storage Gateway monitoring delivers comprehensive insights into key performance metrics, ensuring smooth data transfer and optimized storage performance.

Gain critical insights into resource utilization using storage utilization metrics like working storage usage and upload buffer usage. Memory usage analysis, including used and free memory, and cache utilization metrics, helps ensure optimal performance and better caching efficiency monitoring.

With detailed tracking of cloud data uploads and downloads, organizations can monitor traffic efficiently. Client traffic metrics, including data read and write rates, help assess storage efficiency, while IOPS monitoring provides insights into workload performance. Latency values highlight system responsiveness, ensuring that read and write operations run smoothly. Additionally, queued write monitoring helps optimize pending data operations for improved storage performance.

Amazon Storage Gateway File Share monitoring

Amazon Storage Gateway File Share Monitoring in Applications Manager provides deep insights into your cloud-integrated storage performance. Monitor the availability status to track uptime and ensure uninterrupted access. Gain visibility into KPIs like cache utilization and dirty cache percentage to optimize storage performance.

Track cloud traffic by monitoring upload and download rates to analyze data movement patterns. Additionally, measure client traffic and file share IOPS to assess workload demands and evaluate performance rates. Identify performance bottlenecks by monitoring index fetches, files failing to upload, and S3 Object request times for efficient troubleshooting.

With real-time monitoring, threshold-based alerts, and historical performance trends, Applications Manager helps organizations optimize storage performance, reduce latency, and ensure seamless cloud connectivity for business-critical applications.

Amazon Storage Gateway Volume monitoring

Applications Manager provides deep visibility into Storage Gateway Volume performance by tracking critical metrics such as CPU, memory, and volume utilization for optimized resource planning. Monitor cloud traffic, data upload/download rates, and cache hit percentages to analyze data flow patterns and ensure seamless data movement.

Monitor current cloud data traffic, volume IOPS, and latency trends to identify performance bottlenecks. Keep an eye on queued writes, cache utilization, and health notifications to spot potential issues and ensure uninterrupted data access. With real-time insights and threshold-based alerting, Applications Manager helps organizations maintain storage performance, optimize cloud costs, and ensure data availability for mission-critical applications.

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