Monitor S3 Storage Lens metrics in CloudWatch and improve efficiency with a little help from Bobcares.

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Let’s take a look at how our Support Team is ready to help customers with understanding & monitoring S3 Storage Lens metrics in CloudWatch.

All About Monitor S3 Storage Lens metrics in CloudWatch

We can publish S3 Storage Lens usage & activity metric in CloudWatch and get a complete view of the operational health in CloudWatch dashboards. Furthermore, we can utilize CloudWatch features like triggered actions, alarms, metric math, as well as anomaly detection to monitor in addition to taking action on S3 Storage Lens metrics.

Additionally, CloudWatch APIs can enable applications including third-party providers to access the S3 Storage Lens metrics.

Did you know we can enable the CloudWatch publishing option for new or also existing dashboard configurations via the Amazon S3 console, AWS CLI, Amazon S3 REST API, and AWS SDKs. Dashboards upgraded to S3 Storage Lens advanced metrics & recommendations can utilize the CloudWatch publishing option.

Our Support Techs would like to point out that although no further CloudWatch metrics publishing charges apply except alarms, dashboards, and API.

We can find the S3 Storage Lens metric in the account that owns the S3 Storage Lens configuration. Once we enable the CloudWatch publishing option along with advanced metrics & recommendations, we can access account, organization as well as bucket-level, and activity metrics.

However, prefix-level metrics are not accessible in CloudWatch.

Features used to Monitor S3 Storage Lens metrics in CloudWatch

• • Dashboards:
    We can use the CloudWatch dashboard to customize S3 Storage Lens dashboards. This allows us to share the dashboard with teams, stakeholders, people who don’t have access to the AWS account, or people external to the organization.
  • Alarms & triggered actions:
    We can configure alarms to track metrics and take action in case of a threshold breach.
  • Anomaly detection:
    We can enable anomaly detection to determine normal baselines, analyze metrics as well as surface anomalies.
  • Metric math:
    Metric math can query various S3 Storage Lens metrics. Furthermore, it can use math expressions to build new tome series based on the metrics.

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Conclusion

In brief, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to monitor S3 Storage Lens metrics.