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Does OBS Support Traffic Monitoring?

Yes.

On Cloud Eye, you can monitor the OBS metrics described in the following table.

Table 1 OBS metrics (for requests)

Metric ID

Metric

Description

Value Range

Unit

Conversion Rule

Monitored Entity

Monitoring Period (Original Metric)

get_request_count

GET Requests

Number of GET requests made to all buckets and objects in the buckets of a region.

≥ 0

Count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

put_request_count

PUT Requests

Number of PUT requests made to all buckets and objects in the buckets of a region.

≥ 0

Count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

first_byte_latency

First Byte Download Delay

Average time from receiving a GET request to the time that the system starts to respond in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_count_4xx

4XX Status Codes

Number of requests whose status code returned by the server is 4xx.

≥ 0

Count

N/A

User

Bucket

API

1 minute

request_count_5xx

5XX Status Codes

Number of requests whose status code returned by the server is 5xx.

≥ 0

Count

N/A

User

Bucket

API

1 minute

total_request_latency

Average Request Latency

Average time from receiving a request to the time that the system response ends in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

User

Bucket

API

1 minute

total_request_callback_latency

Average Request Callback Latency

Average time required for calling a specific API in a request.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_count_per_second

Total TPS

Average number of requests per second in a statistical period.

≥ 0

Count/s

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_count_get_per_second

GET Request TPS

Average number of GET requests per second in a statistical period.

≥ 0

Count/s

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_count_put_per_second

PUT Request TPS

Average number of PUT requests per second in a statistical period.

≥ 0

Count/s

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_count_delete_per_second

DELETE Request TPS

Average number of DELETE requests per second in a statistical period.

≥ 0

Count/s

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_success_rate

Request Success Rate

Used to measure the availability of the storage service system. It refers to the percentage of non-server error requests (with status code 5xx returned) in the total request count. It is calculated as follows:

(1 – 5xx requests/Total requests) x 100%

≥ 0, ≤ 100

%

N/A

User

Bucket

API

Domain name

1 minute

effective_request_rate

Valid request rate

Validity of client requests. Percentage of the valid requests in the total requests. It is calculated as follows:

(Number of client requests whose returned status code is 2xx or 3xx/Total number of requests) x 100%

≥ 0, ≤ 100

%

N/A

User

Bucket

API

1 minute

request_break_rate

Request interruption rate

Percentage of the number of requests interrupted by a client to the total number of requests. It is calculated as follows:

(Number of requests interrupted by a client/Total number of requests) x 100%

≥ 0, ≤ 100

%

N/A

User

Bucket

API

1 minute

request_code_count

HTTP status code count

Measures the number of requests with status codes returned by the server. For details about the response status codes, see HTTP Status Codes.

≥ 0

Count

N/A

Bucket

API

HTTP status code

1 minute

api_request_count_per_second

API request TPS

Average number of specific API requests sent to all buckets and objects of a tenant per second within a statistical period. For details about the supported APIs, see Request APIs.

≥ 0

Count/s

N/A

Bucket

API

1 minute

request_count_monitor_2XX

2xx Status Codes

Times that the server responds to requests whose status codes are 2xx.

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_count_monitor_3XX

3xx Status Codes

Times that the server responds to requests whose status codes are 3xx.

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_count_monitor_4XX

4XX Status Codes

Times that the server responds to requests whose error codes are 4xx

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_count_monitor_5XX

5XX Status Codes

Times that the server responds to requests whose error codes are 5xx

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

download_bytes

Total Download Bandwidth

Total size of objects downloaded per second in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

download_bytes_extranet

Download Bandwidth (Internet)

Total size of objects downloaded over the Internet per second in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

download_bytes_intranet

Download Bandwidth (Intranet)

Total size of objects downloaded over the Intranet per second in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

upload_bytes

Total Upload Bandwidth

Total size of objects uploaded per second in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

upload_bytes_extranet

Upload Bandwidth (Internet)

Total size of objects uploaded over the Internet per second in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

upload_bytes_intranet

Upload Bandwidth (Intranet)

Total size of objects uploaded over the Intranet per second in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

cdn_bytes

CDN Pull Bandwidth

The object size that CDN pulls per second from an origin server over the Internet in a given measurement period.

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

1 minute

download_traffic

Total Download Traffic

Total size of objects downloaded in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

download_traffic_extranet

Download Traffic (Internet)

Total size of objects downloaded over the Internet in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

download_traffic_intranet

Download Traffic (Intranet)

Total size of objects downloaded over the Intranet in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

download_traffic_infrequent_access

Download Traffic (Infrequent Access)

Total size of Infrequent Access objects downloaded in a measurement period.

≥ 0

Byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

1 minute

upload_traffic

Total Upload Traffic

Total size of objects uploaded in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

upload_traffic_extranet

Upload Traffic (Internet)

Total size of objects uploaded over the Internet in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

upload_traffic_intranet

Upload Traffic (Intranet)

Total size of objects uploaded over the Intranet in a measurement period.

≥ 0

byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

cdn_traffic

CDN Pull Traffic

The total traffic generated when CDN pulls data from an origin server over the Internet in a given measurement period

≥ 0

Byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

1 minute

upload_transfer_rate

Average Upload Rate

Size of objects uploaded per second in a measurement period.

≥ 0

Bytes/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

download_transfer_rate

Average Download Rate

Size of objects downloaded per second.

≥ 0

Bytes/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

request_get_size_le_1MB_latency

GET Request Latency (Object ≤ 1 MB)

Average latency of GET requests against objects no larger than 1 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_get_size_between_1MB_4MB_latency

GET Request Latency (1 MB < Object ≤ 4 MB)

Average latency of GET requests against objects that are larger than 1 MB but no larger than 4 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_get_size_between_4MB_10MB_latency

GET Request Latency (4 MB < Object ≤ 10 MB)

Average latency of GET requests against objects that are larger than 4 MB but no larger than 10 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_get_size_between_10MB_100MB_latency

GET Request Latency (10 MB < Object ≤ 100 MB)

Average latency of GET requests against objects that are larger than 10 MB but no larger than 100 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_get_size_gt_100MB_latency

GET Request Latency (Object > 100 MB)

Average latency of GET requests against objects larger than 100 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_put_size_le_1MB_latency

PUT Request Latency (Object ≤ 1 MB)

Average latency of PUT requests against objects no larger than 1 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_put_size_between_1MB_4MB_latency

PUT Request Latency (1 MB < Object ≤ 4 MB)

Average latency of PUT requests against objects that are larger than 1 MB but no larger than 4 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_put_size_between_4MB_10MB_latency

PUT Request Latency (4 MB < Object ≤ 10 MB)

Average latency of PUT requests against objects that are larger than 4 MB but no larger than 10 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_put_size_between_10MB_100MB_latency

PUT Request Latency (10 MB < Object ≤ 100 MB)

Average latency of PUT requests against objects that are larger than 10 MB but no larger than 100 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_put_size_gt_100MB_latency

PUT Request Latency (Object > 100 MB)

Average latency of PUT requests against objects larger than 100 MB in a measurement period.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

upload_server_request_latency

Total Server-Side Upload Latency

Average time required for uploading objects on the OBS server.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

upload_total_request_latency

Total E2E Upload Latency

Average end-to-end time required for uploading objects.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

download_server_request_latency

Total Server-Side Download Latency

Average time required for downloading objects on the OBS server.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

download_total_request_latency

Total E2E Download Latency

Average end-to-end time required for downloading objects.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_le_1MB_latency_p99

P99 Request Latency (Object ≤ 1 MB)

P99 latency of the requests for objects no larger than 1 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_1MB_4MB_latency_p99

P99 Request Latency (1 MB < Object ≤ 4 MB)

P99 latency of the requests for objects from 1 MB (exclusive) to 4 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_4MB_10MB_latency_p99

P99 Request Latency (4 MB < Object ≤ 10 MB)

P99 latency of the requests for objects from 4 MB (exclusive) to 10 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_10MB_100MB_latency_p99

P99 Request Latency (10 MB < Object ≤ 100 MB)

P99 latency of the requests for objects from 10 MB (exclusive) to 100 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_gt_100MB_latency_p99

P99 Request Latency (Object > 100 MB)

P99 latency of the requests for objects larger than 100 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_le_1MB_latency_p95

P95 Request Latency (Object ≤ 1 MB)

P95 latency of the requests for objects no larger than 1 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_1MB_4MB_latency_p95

P95 Request Latency (1 MB < Object ≤ 4 MB)

P95 latency of the requests for objects from 1 MB (exclusive) to 4 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_4MB_10MB_latency_p95

P95 Request Latency (4 MB < Object ≤ 10 MB)

P95 latency of the requests for objects from 4 MB (exclusive) to 10 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_10MB_100MB_latency_p95

P95 Request Latency (10 MB < Object ≤ 100 MB)

P95 latency of the requests for objects from 10 MB (exclusive) to 100 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_gt_100MB_latency_p95

P95 Request Latency (Object > 100 MB)

P95 latency of the requests for objects larger than 100 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_le_1MB_latency_p90

P90 Request Latency (Object ≤ 1 MB)

P90 latency of the requests for objects no larger than 1 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_1MB_4MB_latency_p90

P90 Request Latency (1 MB < Object ≤ 4 MB)

P90 latency of the requests for objects from 1 MB (exclusive) to 4 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_4MB_10MB_latency_p90

P90 Request Latency (4 MB < Object ≤ 10 MB)

P90 latency of the requests for objects from 4 MB (exclusive) to 10 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_between_10MB_100MB_latency_p90

P90 Request Latency (10 MB < Object ≤ 100 MB)

P90 latency of the requests for objects from 10 MB (exclusive) to 100 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_size_gt_100MB_latency_p90

P90 Request Latency (Object > 100 MB)

P90 latency of the requests for objects larger than 100 MB.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

request_count_monitor_6XX

6XX Status Codes

Number of requests whose status code returned by the server is 6xx.

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

request_count_monitor_7XX

7XX Status Codes

Number of requests whose status code returned by the server is 7xx.

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

Domain name

1 minute

get_mirror_range_bandwidths

Range Retrieval Bandwidth (Mirroring-based Back to Source)

Bandwidth for retrieving object ranges with mirroring-based back to source

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

1 minute

get_mirror_fetch_bandwidths

Fetch Bandwidth (Mirroring-based Back to Source)

Bandwidth for fetches triggered by mirroring-based back to source

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

User

1 minute

get_mirror_fetch_task_status

Fetch Status (Mirroring-based Back to Source)

Status of asynchronous fetches triggered by mirroring-based back to source. A value of 1 indicates that asynchronous fetches can be triggered, while a value less than 1 indicates that asynchronous fetches cannot be triggered.

≤ 1

count

N/A

User

1 minute

standard_request_upload_bandwidths

Avg. Bandwidth for Uploading Standard Objects

Average size of all Standard objects uploaded using PUT and POST per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

infrequent_request_upload_bandwidths

Avg. Bandwidth for Uploading Infrequent Access Objects

Average size of all Infrequent Access objects uploaded using PUT and POST per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

archive_request_upload_bandwidths

Avg. Bandwidth for Uploading Archive Objects

Average size of all Archive objects uploaded using PUT and POST per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

standard_request_delete_bytes

Avg. Bandwidth for Deleting Standard Objects

Average size of all Standard objects deleted using DELETE per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

infrequent_request_delete_bytes

Avg. Bandwidth for Deleting Infrequent Access Objects

Average size of all Infrequent Access objects deleted using DELETE per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

archive_request_delete_bytes

Avg. Bandwidth for Deleting Archive Objects

Average size of all Archive objects deleted using DELETE per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

standard_request_download_bandwidths

Avg. Bandwidth for Downloading Standard Objects

Average size of all Standard objects downloaded using GET per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

infrequent_request_download_bandwidths

Avg. Bandwidth for Downloading Infrequent Access Objects

Average size of all Infrequent Access objects downloaded using GET per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

archive_request_download_bandwidths

Avg. Bandwidth for Downloading Archive Objects

Average size of all Archive objects downloaded using GET per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024 (IEC)

Bucket

1 minute

standard_download_request_count

Standard Object Download Requests

Average number of GET requests for Standard objects per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

infrequent_download_request_count

Infrequent Access Object Download Requests

Average number of GET requests for Infrequent Access objects per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

archive_download_request_count

Archive Object Download Requests

Average number of GET requests for Archive objects per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

standard_upload_request_count

Standard Object Upload Requests

Average number of PUT and POST requests for Standard objects per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

infrequent_upload_request_count

Infrequent Access Object Upload Requests

Average number of PUT and POST requests for Infrequent Access objects per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

archive_upload_request_count

Archive Object Upload Requests

Average number of PUT and POST requests for Archive objects per second in a measurement period

≥ 0

count

N/A

Bucket

1 minute

Table 2 OBS metrics (for storage)

Metric ID

Metric

Description

Value Range

Unit

Conversion Rule

Monitored Entity

Monitoring Period (Original Metric)

capacity_total

Total Used Storage Space

Measures the storage space occupied by all data.

≥ 0

Bytes

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_standard

Used Space - Standard Storage

Measures the storage space occupied by Standard data.

≥ 0

Bytes

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_infrequent_access

Used Space - Infrequent Access Storage

Measures the storage space occupied by Infrequent Access data.

≥ 0

Bytes

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_archive

Used Space - Archive Storage

Measures the storage space occupied by Archive data.

≥ 0

Bytes

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_deep_archive

Used Space - Deep Archive Storage

Measures the storage space occupied by Deep Archive data.

≥ 0

Byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_standard_single_az

Standard Storage (Single-AZ)

Space occupied by Standard data stored in a single AZ

≥ 0

Byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_standard_multi_az

Standard Storage (Multi-AZ)

Space occupied by Standard data stored in multiple AZs

≥ 0

Byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_infrequent_access_single_az

Infrequent Access Storage (Single-AZ)

Space occupied by Infrequent Access data stored in a single AZ

≥ 0

Byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

capacity_infrequent_access_multi_az

Infrequent Access Storage (Multi-AZ)

Space occupied by Infrequent Access data stored in multiple AZs

≥ 0

Byte

1024 (IEC)

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_all

Total Number of Objects

Total number of objects (including folders and all file versions) stored in all storage classes

≥ 0

Count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_standard_total

Number of Objects - Standard Storage

Total number of objects (including folders and all file versions) stored in the Standard storage class

≥ 0

Count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_infrequent_access_total

Number of Objects - Infrequent Access Storage

Total number of objects (including folders and all file versions) stored in the Infrequent Access storage class

≥ 0

Count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_archive_total

Number of Objects - Archive Storage

Total number of objects (including folders and all file versions) stored in the Archive storage class

≥ 0

Count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_deep_archive_total

Number of Objects - Deep Archive Storage

Total number of objects (including folders and all file versions) stored in the Deep Archive storage classes

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_standard_single_az

Standard Objects (Single-AZ)

Total number of Standard objects (including folders and all object versions) stored in a single AZ

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_standard_multi_az

Standard Objects (Multi-AZ)

Total number of Standard objects (including folders and all object versions) stored in multiple AZs

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_infrequent_access_single_az

Infrequent Access Objects (Single-AZ)

Total number of Infrequent Access objects (including folders and all object versions) stored in a single AZ

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes

object_num_infrequent_access_multi_az

Infrequent Access Objects (Multi-AZ)

Total number of Infrequent Access objects (including folders and all object versions) stored in multiple AZs

≥ 0

count

N/A

User

Bucket

30 minutes