# Storage at scale: what I actually watched

DevFeed: [Storage at scale: what I actually watched](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/storage-at-scale-what-i-actually-watched-34024.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://sridharrajarao.com/blog/storage-at-scale/>)

Author: Sridhar Rajarao

Published: 2026-05-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Sridhar Rajarao](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sridhar-rajarao.md>)

Topics: [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [control-plane](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/control-plane.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>)

Tags: [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [control-plane](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/control-plane.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/service.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

An SRE practitioner describes seven metrics for judging the health of a large-scale storage service, covering availability, durability, latency, synthetic canaries, hotspots, IOPS, and metadata-database behavior.

## Source excerpt

For eight years I ran SRE for a storage system measured in exabytes. The dashboard I checked every morning shrank to seven numbers. Here they are.