Alibaba Cloud Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) Monitoring Integration
Site24x7 offers built-in monitoring for Alibaba Cloud Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), giving you real-time visibility into traffic, packet flow, server health, and connection metrics. With these insights, you can optimize load balancing, maintain high availability, and quickly troubleshoot network issues. When you integrate your Alibaba Cloud account with Site24x7, all associated GWLB resources are auto-discovered and continuously monitored.
Use cases
- Traffic monitoring: Track inbound and outbound traffic to maintain balanced load across server groups.
- Packet analysis: Monitor packets sent and received to detect anomalies in traffic flow.
- Server health monitoring: Track healthy and unhealthy hosts within server groups to ensure proper load distribution.
- Connection monitoring: Analyze active and new connections to prevent bottlenecks and maintain throughput.
Setup and configuration
- Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Cloud > Alibaba Cloud > Add Monitor.
- In the Edit Alibaba Cloud Monitor page, select Gateway Load Balancer from the Service Types list.
- Once added, go to Cloud > Alibaba > GWLB to view dashboards and performance metrics.
Supported metrics
Traffic & Packet Flow
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic RX | The total inbound traffic received by the GWLB. | Bits/second |
| Traffic TX | The total outbound traffic transmitted by the GWLB. | Bits/second |
| Packet RX | The total number of packets received by the GWLB. | Packets/second |
| Packet TX | The total number of packets transmitted by the GWLB. | Packets/second |
Server Health
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Server Group Healthy Host Count | The number of healthy hosts in the GWLB server group. | Count |
| Server Group Unhealthy Host Count | The number of unhealthy hosts in the GWLB server group. | Count |
Connections
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Active Connection | The number of active connections currently handled by the GWLB. | Count |
| New Connection | The number of new connections established per second. | Count/second |
Threshold configuration
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or edit a threshold profile for Gateway Load Balancer.
- Assign the profile to the respective monitors to trigger alerts.
IT automation
Site24x7's IT Automation tools help with automatically resolving performance degradation issues. When a breach occurs, the alarm engine continuously examines the system events for which thresholds have been defined and performs the mapped automation.
- Go to Admin > IT Automation Templates.
- Create a new automation rule.
- Map the rule to the monitor for proactive resolution.
How to configure IT Automation for a monitor
Configuration rules
With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can set parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors and automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. Automatically assign these settings when new Gateway Load Balancer monitors are added.
How to add a Configuration Rule