Alibaba Cloud Memcache Monitoring Integration
Site24x7 provides out-of-the-box monitoring for Memcache instances deployed in your Alibaba Cloud environment. With detailed insights into resource utilization, connection health, cache efficiency, and network activity, you can proactively manage and optimize your distributed cache workloads. Once your Alibaba Cloud account is integrated with Site24x7, all associated Memcache instances are auto-discovered and continuously monitored.
Use cases
- Resource control: Monitor CPU and memory utilization to prevent node saturation.
- Connection tracking: Detect active and failed connections to maintain client reliability.
- Traffic insights: Analyze inbound and outbound intranet traffic to optimize performance.
- Cache efficiency monitoring: Measure hit rates to improve data retrieval speed and reduce backend load.
- Sharding visibility: Track usage metrics across shards to balance workloads.
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 Memcache from the Service Types list.
- Once added, go to Cloud > Alibaba > Memcache to view dashboards and performance metrics.
Supported metrics
Resource Usage
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Usage | The percentage of CPU used by the Memcache instance. | Percentage |
| Sharding CPU Usage | The percentage of CPU used across shards. | Percentage |
| Memory Usage | The percentage of memory used by the Memcache instance. | Percentage |
| Sharding Memory Usage | The percentage of memory used across shards. | Percentage |
| Used Memory | The amount of memory currently used by the instance. | Bytes |
| Sharding Used Memory | The amount of memory used across shards. | Bytes |
Connections & Errors
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Connection Usage | The percentage of connections used by the Memcache instance. | Percentage |
| Sharding Connection Usage | The percentage of connections used across shards. | Percentage |
| Used Connection | The number of active client connections. | Count |
| Sharding Used Connection | The number of active client connections across shards. | Count |
| Failed Count | The number of failed connections. | Count |
| Sharding Failed Count | The number of failed connections across shards. | Count |
Network Traffic
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Intranet Out | The amount of outbound intranet traffic from the instance. | Bytes/second |
| Sharding Intranet Out | The amount of outbound intranet traffic across shards. | Bytes/second |
| Intranet Out Ratio | The ratio of outbound intranet traffic utilization. | Percentage |
| Sharding Intranet Out Ratio | The ratio of outbound intranet traffic utilization across shards. | Percentage |
| Intranet In | The amount of inbound intranet traffic to the instance. | Bytes/second |
| Sharding Intranet In | The amount of inbound intranet traffic across shards. | Bytes/second |
| Intranet In Ratio | The ratio of inbound intranet traffic utilization. | Percentage |
| Sharding Intranet In Ratio | The ratio of inbound intranet traffic utilization across shards. | Percentage |
Cache Performance
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Hit Rate | The percentage of cache hits in the Memcache instance. | Percentage |
| Sharding Hit Rate | The percentage of cache hits across shards. | Percentage |
Threshold configuration
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or edit a threshold profile for Memcache.
- 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 Memcache monitors are added.
How to add a Configuration Rule