Introduction
Alibaba Cloud Network Load Balancer (NLB) is a Layer 4 load balancer that distributes TCP/UDP traffic across backend servers with ultra-high performance and elastic scaling.
Set up the Alibaba integration
- To begin monitoring your Network Load Balancer in OpsRamp, ensure that the Alibaba Cloud integration is configured. See Install Alibaba Cloud integration.
- Select
Network Load Balancerin the Alibaba Integration Discovery Profile. - Save the discovery profile.
Supported metrics
| Metric Name | Alibaba Metric | Metric Display Name | Units | Aggregation Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acs_nlb_ConsumedLCUs | ConsumedLCUs | Consumed LCUs | count | Value | Number of load balancer capacity units currently consumed by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceActiveConnection | InstanceActiveConnection | Instance Active Connection | count | Average | Average number of active client connections being handled by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceDropConnection | InstanceDropConnection | Instance Drop Connection | counts/s | Average | Average rate of client connections dropped by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceDropPacketRX | InstanceDropPacketRX | Instance Drop Packet RX | counts/s | Average | Average rate of inbound packets dropped by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceDropPacketTX | InstanceDropPacketTX | Instance Drop Packet TX | counts/s | Average | Average rate of outbound packets dropped by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceDropTrafficRX | InstanceDropTrafficRX | Instance Drop Traffic RX | bps | Average | Average inbound traffic volume dropped by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceDropTrafficTX | InstanceDropTrafficTX | Instance Drop Traffic TX | bps | Average | Average outbound traffic volume dropped by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceInactiveConnection | InstanceInactiveConnection | Instance Inactive Connection | counts/s | Average | Average number of inactive or idle connections maintained by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceMaxConnection | InstanceMaxConnection | Instance Max Connection | counts/s | Average | Average maximum connection capacity observed for the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceNewConnection | InstanceNewConnection | Instance New Connection | counts/s | Average | Average rate of new client connections established through the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstancePacketRX | InstancePacketRX | Instance Packet RX | counts/s | Average | Average rate of inbound packets received by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstancePacketTX | InstancePacketTX | Instance Packet TX | counts/s | Average | Average rate of outbound packets sent by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceTrafficRX | InstanceTrafficRX | Instance Traffic RX | bps | Average | Average inbound traffic handled by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceTrafficTX | InstanceTrafficTX | Instance Traffic TX | bps | Average | Average outbound traffic handled by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_InstanceUnhealthyServerCount | InstanceUnhealthyServerCount | Instance Unhealthy Server Count | count | Sum | Total number of backend servers currently marked unhealthy by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_NlbInstanceHeathyServerCount | NlbInstanceHeathyServerCount | Nlb Instance Heathy Server Count | count | Sum | Total number of backend servers currently marked healthy by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_PeakLCUs | PeakLCUs | Peak LCUs | count | Value | Highest number of load balancer capacity units reached by the NLB instance |
| acs_nlb_ReservedLCUs | ReservedLCUs | Reserved LCUs | count | Value | Number of load balancer capacity units reserved for the NLB instance |