Overview
COS statistics such as read and write requests and traffic are collected and displayed by Cloud Monitor. You can view detailed monitoring data in the Cloud Monitor Console.
This document describes how to get statistics in the COS Console. For more information on how to use Cloud Monitor APIs to get more detailed data, see Cloud Monitoring product documentation.
Basic Features
Cloud Monitor provides the following entries for COS to implement monitoring and alarming.
| Module |
Capabilities |
Main Features |
| Monitoring overview |
Displays the current status of the product |
Provides general overview, alarm overview, and overall monitoring information |
| Alarm management |
Supports alarm management and configuration |
Supports creating new COS alarming policies, custom messages, and trigger templates |
| Monitoring platform |
Monitors traffic and displays data of user-defined monitoring metrics |
Displays your overall bandwidth information and allows you to customize monitoring metrics and data to be reported |
| Cloud product monitoring |
Displays the COS bucket monitoring view |
Allows you to query the current monitoring views and data such as read and write requests and traffic for each bucket |
Use Cases
- Daily management: you can log in to the Cloud Monitor Console to view the running status of COS in real time.
- Troubleshooting: you will receive alarm notifications when a monitoring metric reaches the alarming threshold, allowing you to quickly get notifications for exceptions, check the causes, and fix them in a timely manner.
Viewing in the Console
You can log in to the Cloud Monitor Console to view the monitoring data for COS.
Calling APIs
You can view the monitoring data for COS by calling the corresponding APIs. Below are the monitoring metrics for COS.
Storage
| Metric Name |
Description |
Unit |
| std_storage |
Standard storage - storage capacity |
MB |
| sia_storage |
Standard_IA storage - storage capacity |
MB |
| nel_storage |
Nearline Storage - storage capacity |
MB |
| arc_storage |
Archive storage - storage capacity |
MB |
Traffic
| Metric Name |
Description |
Unit |
| internet_traffic |
Public network traffic |
B |
| internal_traffic |
Private network traffic |
B |
| cdn_origin_traffic |
CDN origin-pull traffic |
B |
| inbound_traffic |
Upload traffic |
B |
Data Retrieval
| Metric Name |
Description |
Unit |
| std_retrieval |
Standard data retrieval |
B |
| sia_retrieval |
Standard_IA data retrieval |
B |
| nel_retrieval |
Nearline data retrieval |
B |
Requests
| Metric Name |
Description |
Unit |
| std_read_requests |
Standard storage read requests |
/ |
| std_write_requests |
Standard storage write requests |
/ |
| ia_read_requests |
Standard_IA storage read requests |
/ |
| ia_write_requests |
Standard_IA storage write requests |
/ |
| nl_read_requests |
Nearline storage read requests |
/ |
| nl_write_requests |
Nearline storage write requests |
/ |
Return Codes
| Metric Name |
Description |
Unit |
| 2xx_response |
2xx status codes |
/ |
| 3xx_response |
3xx status codes |
/ |
| 4xx_response |
4xx status codes |
/ |
| 5xx_response |
5xx status codes |
/ |
Monitoring Descriptions
- Monitoring interval: Cloud Monitor supports multiple types of monitoring intervals, including monitoring data in real time, in the past 24 hours, in the past 7 days, and in user-specified period, with time granularity of 1 minute or 5 minutes.
- Data retention: monitoring data with 1-minute, 5-minute, and 1-hour granularity will be retained for 31 days; monitoring data with 1-day granularity will be retained for half a year.
- Alarm display: Cloud Monitor integrates the monitoring data of COS and displays the data entries in intuitive graphs, making it easier for you to stay informed of the overall status.
- Alarm setting: you can set alarm-triggering thresholds for the metrics. Cloud Monitor will send notifications to specified recipients when the alarm is triggered. For more information, see [https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/doc/product/248/6126).
