AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Monitoring the Upload Buffer
3. Choose the
UploadBufferPercentUsed
metric.
4. For
Time Range
, choose a value.
5. Choose the
Average
statistic.
6. For
Period
, choose a value of 5 minutes to match the default reporting time.
The resulting time-ordered set of data points contains the percent used of the upload buffer.
Using the following procedure, you can create an alarm using the CloudWatch console. To learn more
about alarms and thresholds, see
.
To set an upper threshold alarm for a gateway's upload buffer
1. Open the CloudWatch console at
https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudwatch/
2. Choose
Create Alarm
to start the Create Alarm Wizard.
3. Specify a metric for your alarm.
a. On the
Select Metric
page of the Create Alarm Wizard, choose the
AWS/
StorageGateway:GatewayId,GatewayName
dimension, and then find the gateway that you
want to work with.
b. Choose the
UploadBufferPercentUsed
metric. Use the
Average
statistic and a period of 5
minutes.
c.
Choose
Continue
.
4. Define the alarm name, description, and threshold.
a. On the
Define Alarm
page of the Create Alarm Wizard, identify your alarm by giving it a name
and description in the
Name
and
Description
boxes.
b. Define the alarm threshold.
c.
Choose
Continue
.
5. Configure an email action for the alarm.
a. In the
Configure Actions
page of the Create Alarm Wizard, choose
Alarm
for
Alarm State
.
b. Choose
Choose or create email topic
for
Topic
.
To create an email topic means that you set up an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon
SNS) topic. For more information about Amazon SNS, see
c.
For
Topic
, type a descriptive name for the topic.
d. Choose
Add Action
.
e. Choose
Continue
.
6. Review the alarm settings, and then create the alarm.
a. In the
Review
page of the Create Alarm Wizard, review the alarm definition, metric, and
associated actions from this step. Associated actions include, for example, sending an email
notification.
b. After reviewing the alarm summary, choose
Save Alarm
.
7. Confirm your subscription to the alarm topic.
a. Open the Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) email topic that is sent to the
email address that you specified when creating the topic.
The following image shows a notification.
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