Amazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume health

Today, Amazon announced the availability of detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. This new capability provides you with real-time visibility into the performance of your EBS volumes, making it easier to monitor the health of your storage resources and take actions sooner.

With detailed performance statistics, you can access 11 metrics at up to a per-second granularity to monitor input/output (I/O) statistics of your EBS volumes, including driven I/O and I/O latency histograms. The granular visibility provided by these metrics helps you quickly identify and proactively troubleshoot application performance bottlenecks that may be caused by factors such as reaching an EBS volume's provisioned IOPS or throughput limits, enabling you to enhance application performance and resiliency.

Detailed performance statistics for EBS volumes are available by default for all EBS volumes attached to a Nitro-based EC2 instance in all AWS Commercial, China, and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, at no additional charge.

To get started with EBS detailed performance statistics, please visit the documentation here to learn more about the available metrics and how to access them using NVMe-CLI tools.