Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for EBS detailed performance statistics

Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports collecting detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon EKS nodes. The CloudWatch agent can be configured to collect NVMe-based metrics including queue depth, number of operations, bytes sent and received, and time spent on read and write I/O operations, making them available as custom metrics in CloudWatch.

This enhancement provides customers more granular visibility into their volume's I/O performance so they can quickly identify and proactively troubleshoot application performance bottlenecks. Customers can use these detailed metrics in CloudWatch to analyze I/O patterns, track performance trends, create custom dashboards, and set up automated alarms based on performance thresholds, helping them maintain optimal storage performance and improve resiliency for their workloads and applications.

EBS detailed performance statistics via Amazon CloudWatch agent are available for all EBS volumes attached to Nitro-based EC2 instances in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See the Amazon CloudWatch pricing page for CloudWatch pricing details.

To get started with detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in CloudWatch, see Configuring the CloudWatch agent in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. To learn more about detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, see Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics in the Amazon EBS User Guide.