Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides additional performance metrics and an enhanced monitoring dashboard

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, an AWS service that provides the only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud, now provides additional Amazon CloudWatch performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and enhanced monitoring dashboards with performance insights and recommendations . You can use the new metrics and dashboards to more easily monitor and right-size your file systems to optimize performance and costs.

You could previously use performance metrics to monitor the throughput, IOPS, and latencies delivered by your file systems — the primary performance characteristics for most workloads. Starting today, you now have an expanded set of performance metrics available in CloudWatch — such as CPU utilization, SSD IOPS usage, and network bandwidth utilization — that enable you to understand and optimize performance and costs across an even wider range of workloads. Using the enhanced monitoring dashboard, you also get improved performance insights with high-level recommendations to help you optimize performance – for example, recommendations to increase your file system’s SSD I/O performance level if your workload is SSD I/O-limited – that you can action with just a few clicks.

The additional performance metrics and new monitoring dashboards are available today, at no additional cost, for all FSx for ONTAP file systems in all AWS Regions where FSx for ONTAP is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon FSx monitoring documentation.