Amazon Elastic File System Integration
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a fully managed service that lets you create and configure and share scalable file systems quickly. With Site24x7's AWS integration you can monitor performance data for the file systems mounted on your EC2 instances and on-premise servers.
Setup and configuration
- If you haven't done it already, please enable Site24x7 programmatic access to your AWS services either by creating an IAM user, or by creating cross-account IAM Role (recommended) between your AWS account and Site24x7's AWS account. Learn more
- In the Integrate AWS account page, ensure that the check box adjacent to the EFS listing is selected. Learn more.
Policy and Permission
To allow Site24x7 to access Elastic File Systems and collect metric data, assign the AWS managed policy ReadOnlyAccess (Recommended) to the Site24x7 entity (IAM user or Role). If you've assigned a custom IAM policy, please make sure the following read-level actions are present. Learn more.
- "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
- "elasticfilesystem:DescribeTags",
- "elasticfilesystem:DescribeMountTargets",
- "elasticfilesystem:DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroups"
Polling interval
Aggregated EFS metric data is collected as per the poll frequency set (1 minute to a day). Learn more.
Licensing
Each file system is considered a basic monitor.
Supported metrics
The following metrics are collected for a file system:
| Attribute | Description | Statistics | Data type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burst credit balance | Measures the number of available burst credits on a file system. | Average | GB |
| Client connections | Measures the number of client connections to a file system. | Maximum | Count |
| Data read IO bytes | Measures the total number of bytes associated with read operations. | Sum | MB |
| Data write IO bytes | Measures the total number of bytes associated with write operations. | Sum | MB |
| Metadata IO bytes | Measures the total number of bytes associated with metadata operations. | Sum | MB |
| Percent IO limit | Measures how close the a file system(General Purpose performance mode) is to reaching the I/O limit. | Average | Percent |
| Total IO bytes | Measures the total number of bytes associated with all file system operations. | Sum | MB |
| File metered size | Measures the metered size of an Amazon EFS file system. | Maximum | MB |
To find and view data
- Sign in to the Site24x7 console. Select AWS from the left navigation pane.
- Choose the monitored AWS account. Choose Elastic File System from the menu dropdown.
- From the list of monitored file system's choose the storage resource you want to view metrics for.
Metadata
The following information about the Amazon EFS file systems are collected:
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| File system name | The unique name of the file system. |
| File system ID | ID of the file system, assigned by AWS. |
| Region | The Region where the file system is deployed. |
| Created time | Time that the file system was created. |
| Creation token | Sting of up to 64 ASCII characters. Amazon uses this to ensure idempotent creation. |
| Encrypted | Indicates whether the file system is encrypted. Possible values true or false. |
| LifeCycleState | Lifecycle phase of the file system. |
| KMS Key ID | The ID of the AWS Key Management Service CMK that was used to encrypt the file system. |
| Mount Targets | Current number of mount targets that the file system has. |
| Owner ID | AWS account the created the file system. |
| Performance Mode | Indicates the Performance Mode of the file system. Possible values are General Purpose and Max I/O. |
Forecast
Estimate future values of the following performance metrics and make informed decisions about adding capacity or scaling your AWS infrastructure.
- Burst Credit Balance
- Permitted Throughput
- File Metered Size