Alibaba Cloud SLB¶

Alibaba Cloud SLB Metrics display, including backend ECS instance status, port connection count, QPS, network traffic, status codes, etc.

Configuration¶

Install Func¶

It is recommended to activate the TrueWatch integration - extension - hosted Func: all prerequisites are automatically installed. Please continue with the script installation.

If you deploy Func on your own, refer to Self-deployed Func

It is recommended to deploy the GSE version.

Installation Script¶

Note: Please prepare an Alibaba Cloud AK that meets the requirements in advance (for simplicity, you can directly grant global read-only permission ReadOnlyAccess).

To synchronize the monitoring data of SLB cloud resources, we install the corresponding collection script: TrueWatch Integration (Alibaba Cloud-)

After clicking [Install], enter the corresponding parameters: Alibaba Cloud AK and Alibaba Cloud account name.

Click [Deploy Startup Script], and the system will automatically create a Startup script set and automatically configure the corresponding startup script.

After it is enabled, you can see the corresponding automatic trigger configuration under "Manage / Automatic Trigger Configuration". Click [Execute] to immediately execute once without waiting for the scheduled time. After a short wait, you can view the execution task records and corresponding logs.

If you need to collect corresponding logs, you also need to enable the corresponding log collection script. If you need to collect billing information, you need to enable the cloud billing collection script.

We default to collecting some configurations; for more details, see the metrics section.

Configure custom cloud object metrics

Verification¶

In "Manage / Automatic Trigger Configuration", confirm whether the corresponding task has the corresponding automatic trigger configuration, and at the same time, check the corresponding task records and logs to see if there are any abnormalities.
On the TrueWatch platform, under "Infrastructure / Custom", check if asset information exists.
On the TrueWatch platform, under "Metrics", check if the corresponding monitoring data exists.

Metrics¶

After configuring Alibaba Cloud - Cloud Monitoring, the default metric set is as follows. You can collect more metrics through configuration. Alibaba Cloud Cloud Monitoring Metric Details

Metric	Description	Dimensions	Statistics	Unit
ActiveConnection	TCP active connections per second	userId,instanceId,port,protocol	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count
DropConnection	Listener dropped connections per second	userId,instanceId,port,protocol	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s
DropPacketRX	Listener dropped inbound packets per second	userId,instanceId,port,protocol	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s
DropPacketTX	Listener dropped outbound packets per second	userId,instanceId,port,protocol	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s
DropTrafficRX	Listener dropped inbound bits per second	userId,instanceId,port,protocol	Average,Minimum,Maximum	bits/s
DropTrafficTX	Listener dropped outbound bits per second	userId,instanceId,port,protocol	Average,Minimum,Maximum	bits/s
GroupActiveConnection	(Group dimension) TCP active connections per second	groupId	Average,Maximum,Minimum,Sum	Count
GroupNewConnection	(Group dimension) TCP new connections	groupId	Average,Maximum,Minimum,Sum	Count
GroupTotalTrafficRX	TotalTrafficRX	groupId	Value	bits/s
GroupTotalTrafficTX	TotalTrafficTX	groupId	Value	bits/s
GroupTrafficRX	(Group dimension) Inbound bandwidth	groupId	Average,Minimum,Maximum,Sum	bits/s
GroupTrafficTX	(Group dimension) Outbound bandwidth	groupId	Average,Minimum,Maximum,Sum	bits/s
GroupUnhealthyServerCount	(Group dimension) Number of unhealthy ECS instances	groupId	Average,Maximum,Minimum,Sum	Count
HealthyServerCountWithRule	Number of healthy ECS instances after layer seven forwarding rules	userId,instanceId,port,vip,domain,url	Average,Maximum,Minimum	Count
HeathyServerCount	Number of healthy ECS instances after health checks	userId,instanceId,port,vip	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count
InactiveConnection	TCP inactive connections	userId,instanceId,port,protocol	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count
InstanceActiveConnection	Instance active connections per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s
InstanceDropConnection	Instance dropped connections per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum,Sum	Count/s
InstanceDropPacketRX	Instance dropped inbound packets per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s
InstanceDropPacketTX	Instance dropped outbound packets per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s
InstanceDropTrafficRX	Instance dropped inbound bits per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum	bits/s
InstanceDropTrafficTX	Instance dropped outbound bits per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum	bits/s
InstanceInactiveConnection	Instance inactive connections per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s
InstanceMaxConnection	Instance maximum concurrent connections per second	userId,instanceId	Average,Minimum,Maximum	Count/s

Objects¶

The collected Alibaba Cloud SLB object data structure can be viewed under "Infrastructure - Custom".

{
  "measurement": "aliyun_slb",
  "tags": {
    "name": "lb.xxxxxxxx",
    "LoadBalancerId": "lb.xxxxxxxxx",
    "RegionId": "cn-shanghai",
    "SlaveZoneId": "cn-shanghai-i",
    "MasterZoneId": "cn-shanghai",
    "Address": "172.xxx.xxx.xxx",
    "PayType": "PayOnDemand",
    "InternetChargeType": "paybytraffic",
    "LoadBalancerName": "Business System",
    "LoadBalancerStatus": "active",
    "AutoReleaseTime": "1513947075000",
    "RenewalStatus": "AutoRenewal",
    "AddressType": "Internet",
    "NetworkType": "vpc"
  },
  "fields": {
    "CreateTime": "2020-11-18T08:47:11Z",
    "ListenerPortsAndProtocol": "{Listener Port JSON Data}",
    "ServerHealthStatus": "{Instance Health Status JSON Data}",
    "ServerCertificates": "{Certificate Information JSON Data}",
    "Bandwidth": "5120",
    "EndTimeStamp": "32493801600000",
    "message": "{Instance JSON Data}"
  }
}