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AWS ELB

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AWS ELB

The AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) integration allows you to monitor your AWS ELB service through FortiMonitor.

To add the AWS ELB service to your FortiMonitor account:

  1. Follow the instructions provided in Connecting FortiMonitor and CloudWatch.

  2. Under Services, select ELB.

Metrics

The following table describes the metrics supported by FortiMonitor for ELB.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-cloudwatch-metrics.html for more information.

Metric

Unit

Description

Backend Connection Errors

Count

The number of connections that were not successfully established between the load balancer and the registered instances.

Healthy Host Count

Count

The number of healthy instances registered with your load balancer.

HTTPCode ELB 4XX

Count

The number of HTTP 4XX client error codes generated by the load balancer.

HTTPCode ELB 5XX

Count

The number of HTTP 5XX server error codes generated by the load balancer.

Latency

Seconds

The total time elapsed, in seconds, from the time the load balancer sent the request to a registered instance until the instance started to send the response headers.

Request Count

Count

The number of requests completed or connections made during the specified interval. Options for Average, Maximum, Minimum and Sum are available. Note per AWS, all except Sum return a value of 1.

Spillover Count

Count

The total number of requests that were rejected because the surge queue is full.

Surge Queue Length

Count

The total number of requests (HTTP listener) or connections (TCP listener) that are pending routing to a healthy instance.

UnHealthy Host Count

Count

The number of unhealthy instances registered with your load balancer.

Estimated ALB Active Connection Count

Count

The estimated number of concurrent TCP connections active from clients to the load balancer and from the load balancer to targets.

Estimated ALB Consumed LCUs

Count

The estimated number of load balancer capacity units (LCU) used by an Application Load Balancer. You pay for the number of LCUs that you use per hour.

Estimated ALB New Connection Count

Count

The estimated number of new TCP connections established from clients to the load balancer and from the load balancer to targets.

Estimated Processed Bytes

Count

The estimated number of bytes processed by an Application Load Balancer.

AWS ELB

The AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) integration allows you to monitor your AWS ELB service through FortiMonitor.

To add the AWS ELB service to your FortiMonitor account:

  1. Follow the instructions provided in Connecting FortiMonitor and CloudWatch.

  2. Under Services, select ELB.

Metrics

The following table describes the metrics supported by FortiMonitor for ELB.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-cloudwatch-metrics.html for more information.

Metric

Unit

Description

Backend Connection Errors

Count

The number of connections that were not successfully established between the load balancer and the registered instances.

Healthy Host Count

Count

The number of healthy instances registered with your load balancer.

HTTPCode ELB 4XX

Count

The number of HTTP 4XX client error codes generated by the load balancer.

HTTPCode ELB 5XX

Count

The number of HTTP 5XX server error codes generated by the load balancer.

Latency

Seconds

The total time elapsed, in seconds, from the time the load balancer sent the request to a registered instance until the instance started to send the response headers.

Request Count

Count

The number of requests completed or connections made during the specified interval. Options for Average, Maximum, Minimum and Sum are available. Note per AWS, all except Sum return a value of 1.

Spillover Count

Count

The total number of requests that were rejected because the surge queue is full.

Surge Queue Length

Count

The total number of requests (HTTP listener) or connections (TCP listener) that are pending routing to a healthy instance.

UnHealthy Host Count

Count

The number of unhealthy instances registered with your load balancer.

Estimated ALB Active Connection Count

Count

The estimated number of concurrent TCP connections active from clients to the load balancer and from the load balancer to targets.

Estimated ALB Consumed LCUs

Count

The estimated number of load balancer capacity units (LCU) used by an Application Load Balancer. You pay for the number of LCUs that you use per hour.

Estimated ALB New Connection Count

Count

The estimated number of new TCP connections established from clients to the load balancer and from the load balancer to targets.

Estimated Processed Bytes

Count

The estimated number of bytes processed by an Application Load Balancer.