Alibaba Cloud NAT Gateway Monitoring Integration
Site24x7 offers comprehensive monitoring for Alibaba Cloud NAT Gateway to help you ensure uninterrupted network address translation and traffic flow across your cloud workloads. With visibility into connection limits, dropped sessions, traffic rates, packet flow, and bandwidth utilization, you can identify performance issues and optimize network efficiency. Once your Alibaba Cloud account is integrated, all associated NAT Gateways are auto-discovered and continuously monitored.
Use cases
- Connection reliability: Monitor active sessions, new connections, and session drops to prevent outages caused by connection saturation.
- Bandwidth utilization: Track inbound and outbound bandwidth rates to detect congestion or unexpected traffic surges.
- Failure analysis: Detect SNAT failures, port allocation errors, and dropped packets early to maintain service continuity.
- Traffic flow monitoring: Gain visibility into packet rates, inbound/outbound traffic, and dropped packets for troubleshooting.
- Capacity planning: Analyze connection water levels and throughput trends to scale NAT Gateway resources effectively.
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 NAT Gateway from the Service Types list.
- Once added, go to Cloud > Alibaba > NAT Gateway to view dashboards and performance metrics.
Supported metrics
Limits, Drops & Failures
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| SNAT Connection Drop Concurrent Connection Limit | The number of SNAT connection drops due to exceeding concurrent connection limits. | Count |
| SNAT Connection Drop Connection Rate Limit | The number of SNAT connection drops caused by exceeding connection rate limits. | Count |
| Session Limit Drop Connection | The number of dropped connections due to session limits. | Count |
| Session Limit Drop Rate | The rate of dropped sessions due to session limits. | Count |
| Error Port Allocation Rate | The rate of port allocation failures. | Count |
| Error Port Allocation Count | The total number of port allocation failures. | Count |
| ENI Packets Drop Port Allocation Fail | The number of packets dropped due to port allocation failures on ENIs. | Count |
Session & Connection Metrics
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Session Active Connection | The number of active sessions. | Count |
| Session New Connection | The number of new sessions established. | Count |
| Session New Connection2 | The number of new sessions established (alternate metric). | Count |
| Session Active Connection Water Level | The current active session water level. | Count |
| Session New Connection Water Level | The new session water level. | Count |
| SNAT Connection | The number of SNAT connections established. | Count |
Traffic & Bandwidth
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth Rate In from Outside | The inbound bandwidth rate from outside networks. | Bytes/second |
| Bandwidth Rate Out to Outside | The outbound bandwidth rate to outside networks. | Bytes/second |
| Bandwidth Rate In from Inside | The inbound bandwidth rate from internal networks. | Bytes/second |
| Bandwidth Rate Out to Inside | The outbound bandwidth rate to internal networks. | Bytes/second |
| Bytes In from Outside | The total inbound bytes from outside networks. | Bytes |
| Bytes Out to Outside | The total outbound bytes to outside networks. | Bytes |
| Bytes In from Inside | The total inbound bytes from internal networks. | Bytes |
| Bytes Out to Inside | The total outbound bytes to internal networks. | Bytes |
| Inbound Bandwidth Sum | The total inbound bandwidth utilization. | Bytes/second |
| Network TX Rate | The rate of transmitted data over the network. | Bytes/second |
Packet Metrics
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Packets In from Outside | The number of inbound packets from outside networks. | Count |
| Packets Out to Outside | The number of outbound packets to outside networks. | Count |
| Packets In from Inside | The number of inbound packets from internal networks. | Count |
| Network RX Packages | The number of received packets over the network. | Count |
| Network TX Packages | The number of transmitted packets over the network. | Count |
| Drop Total PPS | The number of packets dropped per second. | Count |
| Drop Total BPS | The bandwidth of dropped packets. | Bytes/second |
Threshold configuration
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or edit a threshold profile for NAT Gateway.
- 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 NAT Gateway monitors are added.
How to add a Configuration Rule