# Monitoring your transfers
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AWS DataSync provides several monitoring options to help you validate and debug your transfer.

## Monitoring your transfers with CloudWatch metrics
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You can create custom CloudWatch dashboards with metrics from your DataSync task executions. For more information, see [Monitoring data transfers with Amazon CloudWatch metrics](monitor-datasync.md).

## Monitoring your transfers with task reports
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If you’re transferring millions of files or objects, considering using task reports. Task reports provide detailed information about what DataSync attempts to transfer, skip, verify, and delete during a task execution. For more information, see [Monitoring your data transfers with task reports](task-reports.md).

You can also visualize your task reports by using AWS services such as AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Quick. For more information, see the [AWS Storage Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/derive-insights-from-aws-datasync-task-reports-using-aws-glue-amazon-athena-and-amazon-quicksight/).

## Monitoring your transfers with CloudWatch Logs
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At minimum, we recommend that you configure your task to log basic information and transfer errors. For more information, see [Monitoring data transfers with Amazon CloudWatch Logs](configure-logging.md).