Amazon Elastic File System
Least Privileged User
Navigate to the AWS console and create an IAM user with programmatic access. The user will need the following permissions. You can create a policy specifically for these permissions and apply the permissions to the user.
For more information, see: High Level AWS Source Configuration
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "VisualEditor0",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"elasticfilesystem:DescribeMountTargets",
"elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:*:*:file-system/*"
},
{
"Sid": "VisualEditor1",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
"cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
Connection Parameters
Name | Required? | Description |
---|---|---|
Region | ||
Access Key ID | Required | |
Secret Access Key | Required | |
Additional Threads | The number of additional threads allowed to be utilized during collection. | |
Request Timeout (seconds) | The number of seconds to allow for the API to return a response. | |
Collect CloudWatch Metrics | ||
CloudWatch Historic Mode | If enabled, retrieves a history of data points from CloudWatch. Otherwise, collects only the most recent data point for each metric. |
Metrics
File System
Name | Description |
---|---|
Burst Credit Balance (Bytes) | The number of burst credits that a file system has. |
Client Connections | The maximum number of client connections to a file system within the collection period. |
Encrypted | Indicates that the file system is encrypted. |
Id | The identifier associated with the file system. |
I/O Limit (%) | Shows how close a file system is to reaching the I/O limit of the General Purpose performance mode. |
KMS Key ID | The id of an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master key (CMK) that was used to protect the encrypted file system. |
Life Cycle State | Lifecycle phase of the file system. |
Metadata I/O (Bytes) | The number of bytes for each metadata operation. |
Name | The name given to this file system. |
Number of Mount Targets (Connections) | The number of mount targets that the file system has. |
Owner ID | AWS account that created the file system. |
Performance Mode | The PerformanceMode of the file system. |
Permitted Throughput (Bytes per Second) | The maximum amount of throughput a file system is allowed, given the file system size and BurstCreditBalance. |
Read I/O (Bytes) | The number of bytes for each file system read operation. |
Region | The AWS Region this object belongs to. |
Size (Bytes) | Latest known metered size of data stored in the file system. |
Total I/O (Bytes) | The number of bytes for each file system operation, including data read, data write, and metadata operations. |
Write I/O (Bytes) | The number of bytes for each file system write operation. |
Updated about 4 years ago