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Metrics and telemetry for NetApp Workload Factory

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NetApp Workload Factory collects and stores volume-level and file system-level metrics in AWS CloudWatch to give you operational visibility into storage performance and capacity. Computed metrics, such as throughput, are derived from these collected values. Learn about the metric definitions, collection cadence, refresh behavior, and retention details.

Metrics included

NetApp Workload Factory uses these metrics for operational logs and events:

  • Volume-level CloudWatch metrics (collected per volume)

  • File system-level CloudWatch metrics (collected per file system)

  • Computed metrics

  • Collection schedule and retention

About operational metrics

Computed metrics use this formula:

  • Throughput (Bytes/Second) = (NetworkSentBytes + NetworkReceivedBytes) / period

Refresh behavior:

  • Volume and cluster metrics are refreshed every 12 hours.

  • Latency metrics are refreshed every 20 minutes.

  • DynamoDB items auto-expire after 14 days.

About telemetry data collection

  • OpenTelemetry traces exported via OTLP HTTP to SigNoz (internal observability)

  • AI usage metering (token counts, model costs) stored in AWS Timestream

  • NetApp Console audit records (action name, status, request/response metadata, timestamps)

Volume-level CloudWatch metrics (collected per volume)

Metric AWS CloudWatch name Unit What it measures

Volume storage capacity

StorageCapacity

Bytes

Total provisioned capacity

Storage used

StorageUsed

Bytes

Actual data stored

Data read bytes

DataReadBytes

Bytes

Read throughput

Data write bytes

DataWriteBytes

Bytes

Write throughput

Data read operations

DataReadOperations

Count

Read IOPS

Data write operations

DataWriteOperations

Count

Write IOPS

Metadata operations

MetadataOperations

Count

Metadata IOPS

Data read operation time

DataReadOperationTime

Seconds

Read latency

Data write operation time

DataWriteOperationTime

Seconds

Write latency

Metadata operation time

MetadataOperationTime

Seconds

Metadata latency

File system-level CloudWatch metrics

Metric AWS CloudWatch name Unit What it measures

SSD storage capacity

StorageCapacity

Bytes

Total SSD tier capacity

SSD storage used

StorageUsed (SSD tier)

Bytes

SSD tier consumption

Capacity pool used

StorageUsed (Capacity Pool)

Bytes

Capacity pool consumption

CPU utilization

CPUUtilization

Percent

File server CPU

SSD capacity utilization

StorageCapacityUtilization

Percent

SSD tier percent used

Network throughput utilization

NetworkThroughputUtilization

Percent

Network percent utilized

Disk IOPS utilization

DiskIopsUtilization

Percent

Disk IOPS percent utilized

Disk throughput utilization

FileServerDiskThroughputUtilization

Percent

Disk throughput percent utilized

Disk IOPS utilization (server)

FileServerDiskIopsUtilization

Percent

Server disk IOPS percent utilized

Storage efficiency savings

StorageEfficiencySavings

Bytes

Space saved by efficiency

Network received

NetworkReceivedBytes

Bytes

Inbound network

Network sent

NetworkSentBytes

Bytes

Outbound network

Collection schedule and retention

Time range Collection period Datapoints Storage Retention

1 day

24 minutes

~60

DynamoDB

14 days (TTL)

1 week

~2.8 hours

~60

DynamoDB

14 days (TTL)

1 month

12 hours

~60

DynamoDB

14 days (TTL)

3 months

~1.5 days

~60

DynamoDB

14 days (TTL)

1 year

~6 days

~60

DynamoDB

14 days (TTL)