Use the overview dashboard in EDA workloads

02/28/2026 Contributors

As an IT administrator managing EDA workloads across dozens of FSx for ONTAP file systems, you can use the overview dashboard to answer common daily operational questions about the state of your clusters. Use it to determine where to place new volumes or jobs, understand cluster usage at scale, and make informed decisions about scaling capacity and throughput up or down.

Overview

The overview dashboard provides a centralized cluster view that helps you quickly understand cluster usage across capacity, throughput, and IOPS, and determine where to place new volumes or move existing volumes and SVMs.

The dashboard includes:

Cluster health status: Information summarized at the top of the dashboard that highlights latency, availability and protection, and security events and capacity recommendations across your clusters.
Clusters table: A detailed, searchable table showing usage and performance metrics for each FSx for ONTAP cluster, with support for filtering, sorting, pagination, and CSV export.

Requirements

Before using the overview dashboard, ensure you meet the following requirements:

AWS credentials with view permissions: You must have AWS credentials configured in Workload Factory with at least read (view) permissions for General Storage. Credentials configured with Basic mode are not supported.

If you have not configured credentials with view permissions, you are redirected to the AWS credentials setup page when you open the Overview tab.

If you haven't configured AWS credentials, see Add AWS credentials.
Activate the EDA dashboard: After credentials with view permissions are confirmed, you must activate the dashboard for Workload Factory to begin collecting CloudWatch metrics for your FSx for ONTAP file systems.

Metrics collection can take some time after you provide consent. The dashboard notifies you while the initial collection is in progress.

Steps

Log in using one of the console experiences.
Select the menu and then select EDA.
Select the Overview tab.
If no credentials with view permissions are detected, select Add credentials and follow the prompts to configure AWS credentials with view permissions. Then return to the Overview tab.
Review the consent prompt describing the CloudWatch metrics that will be collected for your FSx for ONTAP file systems.
Select Activate to activate the dashboard and begin metrics collection.

Result

Workload Factory begins collecting CloudWatch metrics for all FSx for ONTAP file systems associated with your configured AWS credentials. The overview dashboard populates as metrics become available. A notification is displayed if collection is still in progress.

Filter the dashboard

Use the filters at the top of the overview dashboard to focus on the file systems relevant to your current task. These are Workload Factory-level filters that apply to both the latency and ONTAP events information and the clusters table.

Available filters:

Region: Filter by one or more AWS regions.
AWS account: Filter by one or more AWS accounts associated with your configured credentials.

When you update the filter selections, all information is refreshed to show only the matching file systems and clusters.

Cluster health status

At the top of the overview dashboard, a summarized view of event activity and health status across your filtered clusters is displayed. This information is only shown when at least one FSx for ONTAP link is associated with your file systems. If no links are available, the information is hidden.

Latency

The Latency section displays the number of latency events detected across the file systems in scope.

The count reflects latency events generated by the FSx latency analysis feature.
Selecting Review navigates to the Latency tab.
You can only view latency information if you have enabled latency monitoring. If you have not configured latency thresholds, select Configure. For details on latency monitoring, see FSx latency analysis.

Capacity

The Capacity section displays the number of EMS messages related to capacity issues, along with the number of file systems affected.

EMS events monitored includes but is not limited to:

Aggregate nearly full
Aggregate full
Volume nearly full
Volume full
Snapshot reserve nearly full
Snapshot reserve full
Directory size full
Flex groups full
Inodes full

For a full list of the EMS events monitored, see Capacity events.

Selecting Capacity navigates to the capacity analysis screen in Storage workloads.

Availability & protection

The Availability & protection section displays the number of EMS messages related to availability and data protection, along with the number of file systems affected.

Events monitored include FlexCache and SnapMirror-related EMS events.

Selecting Availability & protection navigates to the availability and protection analysis screen in Storage workloads.

Security & other

The Security & other section displays the number of EMS messages for events not categorized under Capacity or Availability & protection, along with the number of file systems affected. Events monitored include anti-ransomware protection, NFS authentication failures, and others.

Selecting Security & other navigates to the event analysis screen in Storage workloads.

Clusters table

The clusters table provides a detailed view of each FSx for ONTAP cluster associated with your configured AWS credentials, filtered by the active region and AWS account selections. Data is collected from CloudWatch metrics. The table supports search, column filtering, pagination, column customization, and CSV export.

Search and filter

Use the search to look up specific clusters by name, file system ID, region, or other attributes.
Select any column header to sort the table by that column.
Use per-column filter controls to narrow results within the table.
The table is paginated. Use the pagination controls at the bottom of the table to navigate between pages.

The table includes the following columns. Columns shown by default are indicated in the table. You can add or remove non-default columns using the column selector. For throughput columns, hover over the column header for details about the 30-day calculation period and usage formula.

Column	Default	Description
Cluster name	Yes	The name of the FSx for ONTAP cluster.
Region	Yes	The AWS region where the cluster is deployed.
AWS account	No	The AWS account associated with the cluster.
SSD used capacity	Yes	The amount of SSD storage currently in use.
Total SSD capacity	Yes	The total provisioned SSD storage capacity.
SSD usage	Yes	The percentage of SSD capacity in use. Use this to identify clusters approaching capacity limits before they impact workload performance.
Capacity pool	Yes	The amount of storage in the capacity pool.
Average throughput	Yes	The average throughput over the last 30 days.
P95 throughput	No	The 95th percentile throughput over the last 30 days.
P99 throughput	Yes	The 99th percentile throughput over the last 30 days.
Max throughput	No	The maximum throughput recorded over the last 30 days.
Throughput usage (P99)	Yes	P99 throughput relative to the provisioned throughput SKU. Use this to identify clusters where throughput is consistently near or at the provisioned limit.
Throughput SKU	Yes	The provisioned throughput tier. Compare this against throughput usage to evaluate whether the current SKU is appropriately sized.

Column

Default

Description

Cluster name

Yes

The name of the FSx for ONTAP cluster.

Region

Yes

The AWS region where the cluster is deployed.

AWS account

The AWS account associated with the cluster.

SSD used capacity

Yes

The amount of SSD storage currently in use.

Total SSD capacity

Yes

The total provisioned SSD storage capacity.

SSD usage

Yes

The percentage of SSD capacity in use. Use this to identify clusters approaching capacity limits before they impact workload performance.

Capacity pool

Yes

The amount of storage in the capacity pool.

Average throughput

Yes

The average throughput over the last 30 days.

P95 throughput

The 95th percentile throughput over the last 30 days.

P99 throughput

Yes

The 99th percentile throughput over the last 30 days.

Max throughput

The maximum throughput recorded over the last 30 days.

Throughput usage (P99)

Yes

P99 throughput relative to the provisioned throughput SKU. Use this to identify clusters where throughput is consistently near or at the provisioned limit.

Throughput SKU

Yes

The provisioned throughput tier. Compare this against throughput usage to evaluate whether the current SKU is appropriately sized.

Customize columns

To add or remove columns from the clusters table:

Select the column selector icon above the table on the right.
Select or deselect the columns you want to show or hide.
Select Apply.

Export table to CSV

You can export the currently displayed table data to a CSV file for further analysis or reporting.

Apply any filters or column customizations you want reflected in the export.
Select the button above the clusters table.

The CSV file is downloaded and contains all rows currently visible in the table, including only the columns currently shown.