The Load Balancer service provides automated traffic distribution from one entry point to multiple servers reachable from your virtual cloud network (VCN). The service offers a load balancer with your choice of a public or private IP address, and provisioned bandwidth. A load balancer improves resource utilization, facilitates scaling, and helps ensure high availability.
You can configure multiple load balancing policies and application-specific health checks to ensure that the load balancer directs traffic only to healthy instances. The load balancer can reduce your maintenance window by draining traffic from an unhealthy application server before you remove it from service for maintenance.
Use the Oracle Cloud integration to discover and collect metrics against the OCI Load Balancers.
Setup
To set up the Oracle Cloud integration and discover the OCI Load Balancers service, do the following:
Create a Oracle Cloud (OCI) integration if not available in your installed integrations.
You can select
OCI Load Balancersduring integration or you can edit the existing integration and selectOCI Load Balancers.Scan to discover the resources at any time independent of the predefined schedule.
Once the scan is completed, you can view the OCI Load Balancers resource under Infrastructure > Resources > Oracle Cloud category.
Create a template. See Create a Template for more information on how to create a template.
Refer to Assign a Template on how to assign a template to a resource.
Click the Metrics tab to view the monitoring data of OCI Load Balancers as shown below:
Supported metrics
| OpsRamp Metric | Oracle Cloud Metric | Metric Display Name | Unit | Description | Aggregation Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oci_loadbalancer_AcceptedConnections | AcceptedConnections | Accepted Connections | Count | The number of connections accepted by the load balancer. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_AcceptedSSLHandshake | AcceptedSSLHandshake | Accepted SSL Handshake | Count | The number of accepted SSL handshakes. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_ActiveConnections | ActiveConnections | Active Connections | Count | The number of active connections from clients to the load balancer. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_ActiveSSLConnections | ActiveSSLConnections | Active SSL Connections | Count | The number of active SSL connections. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_BytesReceived | BytesReceived | Bytes Received | Bytes | The number of bytes received by the load balancer. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_BytesSent | BytesSent | Bytes Sent | Bytes | The number of bytes sent by the load balancer. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_FailedSSLClientCertVerify | FailedSSLClientCertVerify | Failed Client SSL Cert Verifications | Count | The number of failed client SSL certificate verifications. | sum |
| oci_loadbalancer_FailedSSLHandshake | FailedSSLHandshake | Failed SSL Handshake | Count | The number of failed SSL handshakes. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_HandledConnections | HandledConnections | Handled Connections | Count | The number of connections handled by the load balancer. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_HttpRequests | HttpRequests | Inbound Requests | Count | The number of incoming client requests to the load balancer. | mean |
| oci_loadbalancer_PeakBandwidth | PeakBandwidth | Peak Bandwidth | bits | Maximum bits per second bandwidth used during a specified interval. | mean |