Application Load Balancer

Setup

Asserts AWS Exporter

Refer to AWS on how to install Asserts AWS Exporter

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Alerts

The AWS Exporter discovers the Load Balancer and also converts the CloudWatch alarms into metrics. If you are using Asserts, the CloudWatch alarms are converted into alerts.

KPI Dashboard

The Application Load Balancer KPI Dashboard shows the following KPIs

• Request Rate

  • Sum(RequestCount)

  • Sum(RequestCount) by TargetGroup

• Error Rate

  • Sum(HttpCode_ELB_4XX)

  • Sum(HttpCode_ELB_5XX)

• Latency

  • Avg(TargetResponseTime)

  • Avg(TargetResponseTime) by TargetGroup

• Connection Counts

  • Sum(ActiveConnectionCount)

  • Sum(NewConnectionCount)

  • Sum(RejectedConnectionCount)

  • Sum(TargetConnectionErrorCount)

• TLS Negotiation Error Count

  • Sum(ClientTLSNegotiationErrorCount)

  • Sum(TargetTLSNegotiationErrorCount)

• Capacity Consumption

  • Sum(ConsumedLCUUnits)

  • Sum(ConsumedLBCapacityUnits

• Processed Bytes

  • Sum(ProcessedBytes)

• Rule Evaluations

  • Sum(RuleEvaluations)

Dashboard

Asserts has out-of-the-box dashboard for Application Load Balancer which shows all the key KPIs