AWS DataSync integration

New Relic integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for reporting your AWS DataSync metrics and other data to New Relic.

This document explains how to activate the integration, and describes the data reported.

Features

Collect and send telemetry data to New Relic from your AWS DataSync services using our integration. Monitor your services, query incoming data, and build dashboards to observe everything at a glance.

Activate integration

This integration is available through CloudWatch Metric Streams.

To enable this integration, see how to connect AWS services to New Relic via CloudWatch Metric Streams

Find and use data

To find your integration's metrics, go to one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Metrics and events and filter by aws.DataSync.

Additionally, you can find the entities associated with AWS DataSync by going to one.newrelic.com and searching for datasync.

Metric data

This New Relic infrastructure integration collects the following Amazon DataSync data:

DataSync Metric data

Metric (min, max, average, count, sum)	Unit	Description
`BytesCompressed`	Bytes	The physical number of bytes transferred over the network after compression was applied.
`BytesPreparedDestination`	Bytes	The total number of bytes of data that are prepared at the destination location.
`BytesPreparedSource`	Bytes	The total number of bytes of data that are prepared at the source location.
`BytesTransferred`	Bytes	The total number of bytes that are involved in the transfer.
`BytesVerifiedDestination`	Bytes	The total number of bytes of data that are verified at the destination location.
`BytesVerifiedSource`	Bytes	The total number of bytes of data that are verified at the source location.
`BytesWritten`	Bytes	The total logical size of all files that have been transferred to the destination location.
`FilesPreparedDestination`	Bytes	The total number of files that are prepared at the destination location.
`FilesPreparedSource`	Bytes	The total number of files that are prepared at the source location.
`FilesTransferred`	Bytes	The actual number of files or metadata that were transferred over the network.
`FilesVerifiedDestination`	Bytes	The total number of files that are verified at the destination location.
`FilesVerifiedSource`	Bytes	The total number of files that are verified at the source location.

All imported data has one dimension: TaskId

Create alerts

You can set up to notify you if there are any changes. For example, you can set up an alert to notify relevant parties of critical or fatal errors.

Learn more about creating alerts here.