Monitoring FSx for Windows File Server file systems
Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon FSx and your AWS solutions. You should collect monitoring data from all parts of your AWS solution so that you can more easily debug a failure if one occurs. However, before you start monitoring Amazon FSx, you should create a monitoring plan that includes answers to the following questions:
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What are your monitoring goals?
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What resources will you monitor?
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How often will you monitor these resources?
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What monitoring tools will you use?
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Who will perform the monitoring tasks?
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Who should be notified when something goes wrong?
For more information about logging and monitoring in FSx for Windows File Server, see the following topics.
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Automated and manual monitoring
AWS 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 with Amazon CloudWatch.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs – Monitor, store, and access your log files from AWS CloudTrail or other sources. For more information, see What Is Amazon CloudWatch Logs? in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide.
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AWS 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 AWS 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 AWS console dashboards provide an at-a-glance view of the state of your AWS environment.
Amazon FSx Monitoring & performance dashboard shows:
Current warnings and CloudWatch alarms
A summary of file system activity
File system storage capacity and utilization
File server and storage volume performance
CloudWatch alarms
Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard shows:
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Current alarms and status
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Graphs of alarms and resources
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Service health status
In addition, you can use CloudWatch to do the following:
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Create customized dashboards to monitor the services you use.
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Graph metric data to troubleshoot issues and discover trends.
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Search and browse all your AWS resource metrics.
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Create and edit alarms to be notified of problems.
For more information about the Amazon FSx Monitoring & performance dashboard, see Using file system metrics.
