Performance · Difficulty 4 of 5 · 45 min
Disk writes time out under load
Wait times on disk spiked on a production instance and application writes time out, while storage throughput sits well below normal. An alarm on a different metric is firing. Find the storage bottleneck and restore normal performance.
Where the symptom shows: EC2
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