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title: Amazon EBS monitoring integration
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-ebs-monitoring-integration
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> #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
>
> Enable the [AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams integration](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-metric-stream/) to monitor all CloudWatch metrics from your AWS services, including custom namespaces. Individual integrations are no longer our recommended option.

[New Relic infrastructure integrations](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/introduction-infra-monitoring) include an Amazon EBS integration for reporting your EBS data to New Relic. Here we explain how to activate our integration and what data can be reported.

## Features

[Amazon Elastic Block Store](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/) (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for your Amazon EC2 instances. With New Relic's EBS integration, you'll be able to monitor writes per volume, volume counts, configuration options, and more. You'll be able to create custom charts of your data and [create alert conditions](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/new-relic-infrastructure/infrastructure-alert-conditions/infrastructure-alerts-add-edit-or-view-host-alert-information) based on changes in EBS data or configuration.

## Activate integration [#activate]

To enable this integration follow standard procedures to [Connect AWS services to New Relic](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/infrastructure-integrations/getting-started/connect-aws-integrations-infrastructure).

## Configuration and polling [#polling]

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using [configuration options](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/integrations/new-relic-integrations/getting-started/configure-polling-frequency-data-collection-cloud-integrations).

Default [polling](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integrations-list/aws-polling-intervals-infrastructure-integrations) information for the Amazon EBS integration:

-   New Relic polling interval: 15 minutes
-   Amazon CloudWatch data interval: [1 minute or 5 minutes](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ebs-metricscollected.html), depending on volume type

## Find and use data [#find-data]

To find this integration's data, go to **[one.newrelic.com > All capabilities](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure > AWS** and select one of the Amazon EBS integration links.

You can [query and explore your data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/using-new-relic/data/understand-data/query-new-relic-data) using the `BlockDeviceSample` [event type](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#event-data), with a `provider` value of `EbsVolume`.

For more on how to find and use integration data, see [Understand integration data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/integrations/find-use-infrastructure-integration-data).

## Metric data [#metrics]

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

> #### 💡 TIP
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> For full descriptions of each metric, see [Amazon's EBS Dimensions and Metrics](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ebs-metricscollected.html).

| Name                                         | Data type     |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| `volumeReadBytes` `volumeWriteBytes`         | bytes         |
| `volumeReadOps` `volumeWriteOps`             | integer/count |
| `volumeTotalReadTime` `volumeTotalWriteTime` | seconds       |
| `volumeIdleTime`                             | seconds       |
| `volumeQueueLength`                          | integer/count |
| `volumeThroughputPercentage`                 | percent       |
| `volumeConsumedReadWriteOps`                 | count         |
| `burstBalance`                               | percent       |