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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 [_aws_permissions_4]

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 [_dashboard_5]

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

Configuration example [_configuration_example_4]

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

Metrics [_metrics_3]

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