How to Monitor Object Storage Service in Huawei Cloud
Site24x7 offers monitoring for Huawei Cloud's Object Storage Service (OBS). Track OBS across storage capacity, request performance, HTTP response status, and transfer rates for comprehensive visibility into object storage health in one unified console.
Use cases
Detect issues: Trigger alerts when the OBS request success rate falls below 99%. This enables teams to quickly determine whether the issue stems from network conditions or misconfigured access policies.
Track pipeline health: A drop in upload transfer rate combined with rising upload server request latency triggers an alert that may help to identify slowness before batch upload jobs miss their processing windows.
Setup and configuration
OBS resources are auto-discovered and monitored during the Huawei Cloud integration. To enable monitoring, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Cloud > Huawei > Add Huawei Monitor. Learn how to add a Huawei Cloud monitor.
- While adding or editing a Huawei Cloud monitor, select OBS from the Service/Resource Types drop-down menu and click Save.
- Go to Cloud > Huawei. Then, select the created Huawei monitor.
- Click OBS to view the performance metrics.
Supported metrics
Standard Storage
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Total Storage Capacity | The total amount of data stored across all storage classes in the OBS bucket. | Bytes |
| Standard Storage Capacity | The volume of data stored in the Standard multi-AZ storage class. | Bytes |
| Standard Single-AZ Storage Capacity | The volume of data stored in the Standard single-AZ storage class. | Bytes |
| Standard Objects Count | The total number of objects stored in the Standard storage class. | Count |
| Standard Single-AZ Objects Count | The total number of objects in the Standard single-AZ storage class. | Count |
Infrequent Access Storage
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Infrequent Access Storage Capacity | The volume of data stored in the Infrequent Access multi-AZ storage class. | Bytes |
| Infrequent Access Single-AZ Storage Capacity | The volume of data stored in the Infrequent Access single-AZ storage class. | Bytes |
| Infrequent Access Objects Count | The number of objects in the Infrequent Access storage class. | Count |
| Infrequent Access Single-AZ Objects Count | The number of objects in the Infrequent Access single-AZ storage class. | Count |
Archive and Deep Archive
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Archive Storage Capacity | The volume of data stored in the Archive storage class, suited for long-term cold data. | Bytes |
| Deep Archive Storage Capacity | The volume of data stored in the Deep Archive storage class, the lowest-cost option for rarely accessed data. | Bytes |
| Archive Objects Count | The number of objects stored in the Archive storage class. | Count |
| Deep Archive Objects Count | The number of objects stored in the Deep Archive storage class. | Count |
Intelligent Tiering
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Total Capacity | Total storage capacity managed under the Intelligent Tiering policy. | Bytes |
| Frequent Access Capacity | Data in the Intelligent Tiering tier currently classified as Frequent Access. | Bytes |
| Infrequent Access Capacity | Data in the Intelligent Tiering tier currently classified as Infrequent Access. | Bytes |
| Archive Capacity | Data in the tier that has been moved to Archive tier. | Bytes |
| Objects Count | Total number of objects managed under Intelligent Tiering. | Count |
| Frequent Objects Count | Number of objects in the Frequent Access tier. | Count |
| Infrequent Objects Count | Number of objects in the Infrequent Access tier. | Count |
| Archive Objects Count | Number of objects moved to archive within Intelligent Tiering. | Count |
Download Traffic
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Total Download Bytes | Total bytes downloaded from the OBS bucket across all network types. | Bytes |
| Download Bytes - External Network | Bytes downloaded over the public internet (external network). | Bytes |
| Download Bytes - Internal Network | Bytes downloaded over Huawei Cloud's internal network. | Bytes |
| Download Traffic | The aggregate data volume downloaded, combining all network paths. | Bytes |
| Download Traffic - External Network | Download traffic originating from external (public) network requests. | Bytes |
| Download Traffic - Internal Network | Download traffic originating from internal Huawei Cloud network requests. | Bytes |
Download Latency
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Download Transfer Rate | The speed at which data is transferred during download operations. | Bytes/second |
| Download Server Request Latency | The time the OBS server takes to process a download request, excluding network transit time. | Milliseconds |
| Download Total Request Latency | The end-to-end time from client download request to last byte received. | Milliseconds |
Upload Metrics
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Total Upload Bytes | Total bytes uploaded to the OBS bucket across all network types. | Bytes |
| Upload Bytes - Internal Network | Bytes uploaded over Huawei Cloud's internal network. | Bytes |
| Upload Traffic | The aggregate data volume uploaded. | Bytes |
| Upload Traffic - Internal Network | Upload traffic originating from Huawei Cloud internal network. | Bytes |
| Upload Transfer Rate | The speed at which data is transferred during upload operations. | Bytes/second |
| Upload Server Request Latency | The time the OBS server takes to process an upload request, server-side only. | Milliseconds |
| Upload Total Request Latency | The end-to-end latency from client upload initiation to server acknowledgment. | Milliseconds |
Request Operations
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| GET Request Count | The total number of GET (download/read) requests received by the bucket. | Count |
| PUT Request Count | The total number of PUT (upload/write) requests received by the bucket. | Count |
| Total Object Count | The total count of all objects stored in the bucket across all storage classes. | Count |
API and Performance Rates
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| API Requests Per Second | The total rate of API requests of all types being handled per second. | Count/second |
| Requests Per Second | Total data access requests per second. | Count/second |
| GET Requests Per Second | The rate of GET requests per second. | Count/second |
| PUT Requests Per Second | The rate of PUT requests per second. | Count/second |
| DELETE Requests Per Second | The rate of DELETE requests per second. | Count/second |
Response Status
Metric name |
Description |
Unit |
| Request Code Distribution | The breakdown of HTTP response codes returned by OBS, showing the distribution across 2xx, 4xx, 5xx responses. | Count |
| Request Success Rate | The percentage of all requests that returned a successful HTTP response (2xx). | Percentage |
| Request Failure Rate | The percentage of all requests that returned an error response (4xx or 5xx). | Percentage |
| Effective Request Rate | The percentage of requests that resulted in meaningful data operations, excluding empty or aborted requests. | Percentage |
| First Byte Latency | The time from when a request is received to when the first byte of the response is sent. | Milliseconds |
| Total Request Latency | The total time to process fully and respond to a request. | Milliseconds |
Threshold configuration
You can configure thresholds and alerts for all OBS metrics to detect performance degradation proactively or connection issues.
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or modify your alert profiles.
- Assign it to specific OBS monitors to receive alerts on anomalies.
IT Automation
Use Site24x7's IT Automation to resolve common issues with OBS performance automatically:
- Go to Admin > IT Automation Templates. Then, click Add Automation Templates.
- Create an automation rule by selecting the automation Type (e.g., Server reboot, clear queue).
- Map it to the OBS monitor for automatic execution during alerts.
Configuration rules
Use Configuration Rules to simplify bulk setup across OBS instances. Automatically assign Threshold Profiles, Notification Profiles, Tags, and Monitor Groups when new monitors are discovered.