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Updated on 2023-10-09 GMT+08:00
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Viewing Traffic Usage

Scenarios

For livestreaming platforms, traffic often increases suddenly, which make the service unstable. To address this issue, most of them use ELB to distribute traffic. By working with Cloud Eye, ELB allows you to monitor the traffic usage in real time. You can view the traffic consumed by the EIPs bound to public network load balancers to better balance your application workloads.

Prerequisites

Load balancers are running properly.

The associated backend servers are running normally and are not deleted or in the stopped or faulty state.

Viewing Traffic Usage of the Bound EIP

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. In the upper left corner of the page, click and select the desired region and project.
  3. Click Service List. Under Networking, click Virtual Private Cloud.
  4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Elastic IP and Bandwidth > EIPs.
  5. Locate the EIP bound to the load balancer and click its name. On the Bandwidth page, you can view the data for the last 1, 3, 12 hours, last day, or last 7 days.
    Figure 1 EIP traffic usage
    Table 1 EIP and bandwidth metrics

    Metric

    Meaning

    Value Range

    Monitored Object

    Monitoring Period (Raw Data)

    Outbound Bandwidth (originally named "Upstream Bandwidth")

    Network rate of outbound traffic

    ≥ 0 bits/s

    Bandwidth or EIP

    1 minute

    Inbound Bandwidth (originally named "Downstream Bandwidth")

    Network rate of inbound traffic

    ≥ 0 bits/s

    Bandwidth or EIP

    1 minute

    Outbound Bandwidth Usage

    Usage of outbound bandwidth in percentage.

    0–100%

    Bandwidth or EIP

    1 minute

    Inbound Bandwidth Usage

    Usage of inbound bandwidth in the unit of percent.

    0–100%

    Bandwidth or EIP

    1 minute

    Outbound Traffic (originally named "Upstream Traffic")

    Network traffic going out of the cloud platform

    ≥ 0 bytes

    Bandwidth or EIP

    1 minute

    Inbound Traffic (originally named "Downstream Traffic")

    Network traffic going into the cloud platform

    ≥ 0 bytes

    Bandwidth or EIP

    1 minute

Viewing Load Balancer Traffic Metrics

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. In the upper left corner of the page, click and select the desired region and project.
  3. Click Service List. Under Networking, click Elastic Load Balance.
  4. Locate the load balancer and click its name.
  5. Click the Monitoring tab, select load balancer for Dimension, and view the graphs of inbound and outbound rates.

    You can view data from the last 1, 3, 12 hours, last day, or the last 7 days. For details, see ELB Metrics.