# Collect Amazon EC2 instance store volume NVMe driver metrics
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For CloudWatch agent to collect AWS NVMe driver metrics for instance store volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance, add the `diskio` section inside the `metrics_collected` section of the CloudWatch agent configuration file.

Additionally, the CloudWatch agent binary requires `ioctl` permissions for NVMe driver devices to collect metrics from attached instance store volumes.

The following metrics can be collected. 


| Metric | Metric name in CloudWatch | Description | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
|  `instance_store_total_read_ops` |  `diskio_instance_store_total_read_ops`  | The total number of completed read operations. | 
|  `instance_store_total_write_ops` |  `diskio_instance_store_total_write_ops`  | The total number of completed write operations. | 
|  `instance_store_total_read_bytes` |  `diskio_instance_store_total_read_bytes`  | The total number of read bytes transferred. | 
|  `instance_store_total_write_bytes` |  `diskio_instance_store_total_write_bytes`  | The total number of write bytes transferred. | 
|  `instance_store_total_read_time` |  `diskio_instance_store_total_read_time`  | The total time spent, in microseconds, by all completed read operations. | 
|  `instance_store_total_write_time` |  `diskio_instance_store_total_write_time`  | The total time spent, in microseconds, by all completed write operations. | 
|  `instance_store_performance_exceeded_iops` |  `diskio_instance_store_performance_exceeded_iops`  | The total time, in microseconds, that IOPS demand exceeded the volume's IOPS maximum performance. | 
|  `instance_store_performance_exceeded_tp` |  `diskio_instance_store_performance_exceeded_tp`  | The total time, in microseconds, that throughput demand exceeded the volume's maximum throughput performance. | 
|  `instance_store_volume_queue_length` |  `diskio_instance_store_volume_queue_length`  | The number of read and write operations waiting to be completed. |