ECS: Troubleshooting S3 Read, Write, or Delete issues

Summary: Use this KB article as a reference on how to troubleshoot and detect basic S3 operations issues such as Read, Write, or Delete of ATMOS, Swift, and Network File System (NFS).

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Symptoms

Attempting to Write, Read, or Delete an S3 object the application displays an HTTP status Error code.
Error codes can also be seen from the ECS user interface portal under Requests. The following screenshot shows 0.00% of System Failures and 0.01% of user failures under Requests.

ECS UI performance

Cause

Performance issue

Resolution

From the user interface, more information displays regarding what Error Codes were captured, by clicking the Requests or from the left menu select: Monitor > Transactions.
A more detailed page should be displayed, as in this screenshot:

Grafana UI 


System Failures: On the ECS side, several issues can cause System Failures to appear. Some examples would be:

  • Timeout while writing big S3 objects to the ECS (as per the S3 Best Practices, it is recommended to use Multi-Part Upload (MPU) instead of uploading large S3 objects). See KB: ECS: Writing large files failing with 500 errors for S3 Protocol.
  • ECS capacity has reached the Threshold of 90%.
  • One or more services are restarting.


User Failures: Some issues are due to problems addressing the S3 Bucket Object. Some of these issues are:


See the below KB articles that can help fix the issue with the User Failures:
S3 Error Codes and their possible causes: ECS: S3 error codes with possible causes
How to setup the S3curl and test the S3 operations using S3curl for ECS 3.x: ECS: How to perform basic s3 operations on ECS 3.x using the s3curl.pl script.
How to use s3curl to perform (MPU) Multipart Upload: ECS: How to use s3curl to perform (MPU) Multipart upload.

Additional Information

If the issue persists, open a Service Request (SR) with the ECS Support team and refer to this KB article number.

Affected Products

ECS Appliance

Products

ECS Appliance, ECS Appliance Gen 1, ECS Appliance Gen 2, ECS Appliance Gen 3
Article Properties
Article Number: 000053693
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 01 Dec 2025
Version:  6
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