Alibaba Cloud VPC Peer Connections Monitoring Integration
Site24x7 provides out-of-the-box monitoring for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peer connection instances deployed in your Alibaba Cloud environment. With real-time insights into bandwidth usage, intranet traffic, and packet drops, you can ensure high availability and efficiency of your private networks. Once your Alibaba Cloud account is integrated with Site24x7, all associated VPC instances are auto-discovered and continuously monitored.
Use cases
- Bandwidth monitoring: Track receive and transmit bandwidth to prevent capacity issues.
- Traffic visibility: Gain insights into intranet traffic sent and received.
- Reliability tracking: Monitor dropped packets due to rate limits.
- Performance optimization: Identify bottlenecks and take proactive actions to ensure smooth data transport.
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 VPC Peer Connections from the Service Types list.
- Once added, go to Cloud > Alibaba > VPC to view dashboards and performance metrics.
Supported metrics
Bandwidth & Traffic Metrics
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Receive Bandwidth | The total incoming bandwidth of the VPC. | Bytes/second |
| Transported Bandwidth | The total outgoing bandwidth of the VPC. | Bytes/second |
| Intranet TX | The number of packets transmitted within the VPC intranet. | Count |
| Intranet RX | The number of packets received within the VPC intranet. | Count |
| Rate Limit Drop PPS | The number of packets dropped per second due to rate limiting. | Count |
Threshold configuration
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or edit a threshold profile for VPC.
- 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 VPC monitors are added.
How to add a Configuration Rule