AWS ebs metricset

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) sends data points to CloudWatch for several metrics. Most EBS volumes automatically send five-minute metrics to CloudWatch only when the volume is attached to an instance. This aws ebs metricset collects these Cloudwatch metrics for monitoring purposes.

AWS Permissions

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Some specific AWS permissions are required for IAM user to collect AWS EBS metrics.

ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases

Dashboard

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The aws ebs metricset comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

metricbeat aws ebs overview

Configuration example

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- module: aws
  period: 300s
  metricsets:
    - ebs
  # This module uses the aws cloudwatch metricset, all
  # the options for this metricset are also available here.

Metrics

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Please see more details for each metric in ebs-cloudwatch-metric.

Metric Name

Statistic Method

VolumeReadBytes

Average

VolumeWriteBytes

Average

VolumeReadOps

Average

VolumeWriteOps

Average

VolumeQueueLength

Average

VolumeThroughputPercentage

Average

VolumeConsumedReadWriteOps

Average

BurstBalance

Average

VolumeTotalReadTime

Sum

VolumeTotalWriteTime

Sum

VolumeIdleTime

Sum

This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.

Fields

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For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "aws": {
        "cloudwatch": {
            "namespace": "AWS/EBS"
        },
        "dimensions": {
            "VolumeId": "vol-0dac7d6bb8e24ba7c"
        },
        "ebs": {
            "metrics": {
                "VolumeIdleTime": {
                    "sum": 299.97
                },
                "VolumeQueueLength": {
                    "avg": 0.000166666666666667
                },
                "VolumeReadOps": {
                    "avg": 0
                },
                "VolumeTotalWriteTime": {
                    "sum": 0.05
                },
                "VolumeWriteBytes": {
                    "avg": 4915.2
                },
                "VolumeWriteOps": {
                    "avg": 30
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "627959692251",
            "name": "elastic-test"
        },
        "provider": "aws",
        "region": "eu-central-1"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "aws.ebs",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "aws"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "ebs",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "aws"
    }
}