Updated on 2024-06-20 GMT+08:00

Monitoring Metrics

Overview

This section describes the namespace, the metrics that can be monitored by Cloud Eye, and dimensions of these metrics. You can view the metrics reported by ELB and the generated alarms on the Cloud Eye console. For details, see Viewing Metrics.

Namespace

SYS.ELB

Metrics

For shared load balancers, you can view the monitoring metrics by load balancer, listener, or backend server group. You can only view the Layer 7 metrics of a backend server group.

Table 1 Metrics supported by each shared load balancer

Metric ID

Name

Description

Value Range

Monitored Object

Monitoring Period

(Raw Data)

m1_cps

Concurrent Connections

Load balancing at Layer 4: total number of TCP and UDP connections from the monitored object to backend servers.

Load balancing at Layer 7: total number of TCP connections from the clients to the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m2_act_conn

Active Connections

Number of TCP and UDP connections in the ESTABLISHED state between the monitored object and backend servers.

You can run the following command to view the connections (both Windows and Linux servers):

netstat -an

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m3_inact_conn

Inactive Connections

Number of TCP connections between the monitored object and backend servers except those in the ESTABLISHED state.

You can run the following command to view the connections (both Windows and Linux servers):

netstat -an

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m4_ncps

New Connections

Number of connections established between clients and the monitored object per second.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m5_in_pps

Incoming Packets

Number of packets received by the monitored object per second.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m6_out_pps

Outgoing Packets

Number of packets sent from the monitored object per second.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m7_in_Bps

Inbound Rate

Traffic used for accessing the monitored object from the Internet.

Unit: bytes/s

≥0 bytes/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m8_out_Bps

Outbound Rate

Traffic used by the monitored object to access the Internet per second.

Unit: bytes/s

≥0 bytes/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m9_abnormal_servers

Unhealthy Servers

Number of unhealthy backend servers associated with the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer

1 minute

ma_normal_servers

Healthy Servers

Number of healthy backend servers associated with the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m22_in_bandwidth

Inbound Bandwidth

Bandwidth used for accessing the monitored object from the Internet.

Unit: bits/s

≥0 bits/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m23_out_bandwidth

Outbound Bandwidth

Bandwidth used by the monitored object to access the Internet.

Unit: bits/s

≥0 bits/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m1e_server_rps

Reset Packets from Backend Servers

Number of reset packets sent from backend servers to clients. These reset packets are generated by the backend servers and then forwarded by the load balancer.

This metric is available only for TCP listeners.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m21_client_rps

Reset Packets from Clients

Number of reset packets sent by clients to backend servers. These reset packets are generated by clients and then forwarded by the load balancer.

This metric is available only for TCP listeners.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m1f_lvs_rps

Reset Packets from Load Balancers

Number of reset packets generated by the load balancer.

This metric is available only for TCP listeners.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

mb_l7_qps

Layer-7 Query Rate

Number of requests the monitored object receives per second.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

mc_l7_http_2xx

Layer-7 2xx Status Codes

Number of 2xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

md_l7_http_3xx

Layer-7 3xx Status Codes

Number of 3xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

me_l7_http_4xx

Layer-7 4xx Status Codes

Number of 4xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

mf_l7_http_5xx

Layer-7 5xx Status Codes

Number of 5xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m10_l7_http_other_status

Layer-7 Other Status Codes

Number of status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers except 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, and 5xx status codes.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m11_l7_http_404

Layer-7 404 Not Found

Number of 404 Not Found status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m12_l7_http_499

Layer-7 499 Client Closed Request

Number of 499 Client Closed Request status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m13_l7_http_502

Layer-7 502 Bad Gateway

Number of 502 Bad Gateway status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m14_l7_rt

Average Layer-7 Response Time

Average response time of the monitored object.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object receives requests from the clients and ends when it returns all responses to the clients.

Unit: ms

NOTE:

The average response time it takes to establish a WebSocket connection may be very high. This metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m15_l7_upstream_4xx

4xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 4xx status codes returned by the backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m16_l7_upstream_5xx

5xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 5xx status codes returned by the backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m17_l7_upstream_rt

Average Server Response Time

Average response time of backend servers.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: ms

NOTE:

The average response time it takes to establish a WebSocket connection may be very high. This metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m1a_l7_upstream_rt_max

Maximum Server Response Time

Maximum response time of backend servers.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: ms

≥ 0ms

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m1b_l7_upstream_rt_min

Minimum Server Response Time

Minimum response time of backend servers.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: ms

≥ 0ms

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m1c_l7_rt_max

Maximum Layer-7 Response Time

Maximum response time of the monitored object.

The response time starts when the monitored object receives requests from the clients and ends when it returns all responses to the clients.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: ms

≥ 0ms

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m1d_l7_rt_min

Minimum Layer-7 Response Time

Minimum response time of the monitored object.

The response time starts when the monitored object receives requests from the clients and ends when it returns all responses to the clients.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: ms

≥ 0ms

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m25_l7_resp_Bps

Backend Server Response Bandwidth

The bandwidth that the monitored object uses to return response to clients.

Unit: bits/s

NOTE:

When HTTP/2 is enabled for a listener, this metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥ 0bit/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

m24_l7_req_Bps

Backend Server Request Bandwidth

The bandwidth that the monitored object uses to receive requests from clients.

Unit: bits/s

NOTE:

When HTTP/2 is enabled for a listener, this metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥ 0bit/s

Shared load balancer

1 minute

Table 2 Metrics supported by each listener

Metric ID

Name

Description

Value Range

Monitored Object

Monitoring Period

(Raw Data)

m1_cps

Concurrent Connections

Load balancing at Layer 4: total number of TCP and UDP connections from the monitored object to backend servers.

Load balancing at Layer 7: total number of TCP connections from the clients to the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m2_act_conn

Active Connections

Number of TCP and UDP connections in the ESTABLISHED state between the monitored object and backend servers.

You can run the following command to view the connections (both Windows and Linux servers):

netstat -an

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m3_inact_conn

Inactive Connections

Number of TCP connections between the monitored object and backend servers except those in the ESTABLISHED state.

You can run the following command to view the connections (both Windows and Linux servers):

netstat -an

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m4_ncps

New Connections

Number of connections established between clients and the monitored object per second.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m5_in_pps

Incoming Packets

Number of packets received by the monitored object per second.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m6_out_pps

Outgoing Packets

Number of packets sent from the monitored object per second.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m7_in_Bps

Inbound Rate

Traffic used for accessing the monitored object from the Internet.

Unit: bytes/s

≥0 bytes/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m8_out_Bps

Outbound Rate

Traffic used by the monitored object to access the Internet per second.

Unit: bytes/s

≥0 bytes/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m9_abnormal_servers

Unhealthy Servers

Number of unhealthy backend servers associated with the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

ma_normal_servers

Healthy Servers

Number of healthy backend servers associated with the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m22_in_bandwidth

Inbound Bandwidth

Bandwidth used for accessing the monitored object from the Internet.

Unit: bits/s

≥0 bits/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m23_out_bandwidth

Outbound Bandwidth

Bandwidth used by the monitored object to access the Internet.

Unit: bits/s

≥0 bits/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m1e_server_rps

Reset Packets from Backend Servers

Number of reset packets sent from backend servers to clients. These reset packets are generated by the backend servers and then forwarded by the load balancer.

This metric is available only for TCP listeners.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m21_client_rps

Reset Packets from Clients

Number of reset packets sent by clients to backend servers. These reset packets are generated by clients and then forwarded by the load balancer.

This metric is available only for TCP listeners.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m1f_lvs_rps

Reset Packets from Load Balancers

Number of reset packets generated by the load balancer.

This metric is available only for TCP listeners.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

mb_l7_qps

Layer-7 Query Rate

Number of requests the monitored object receives per second.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

mc_l7_http_2xx

Layer-7 2xx Status Codes

Number of 2xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

md_l7_http_3xx

Layer-7 3xx Status Codes

Number of 3xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

me_l7_http_4xx

Layer-7 4xx Status Codes

Number of 4xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

mf_l7_http_5xx

Layer-7 5xx Status Codes

Number of 5xx status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m10_l7_http_other_status

Layer-7 Other Status Codes

Number of status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers except 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, and 5xx status codes. This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m11_l7_http_404

Layer-7 404 Not Found

Number of 404 Not Found status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m12_l7_http_499

Layer-7 499 Client Closed Request

Number of 499 Client Closed Request status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m13_l7_http_502

Layer-7 502 Bad Gateway

Number of 502 Bad Gateway status codes returned by the load balancer and backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m14_l7_rt

Average Layer-7 Response Time

Average response time of the monitored object.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object receives requests from the clients and ends when it returns all responses to the clients.

Unit: ms

NOTE:

The average response time it takes to establish a WebSocket connection may be very high. This metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m15_l7_upstream_4xx

4xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 4xx status codes returned by the backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m16_l7_upstream_5xx

5xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 5xx status codes returned by the backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m17_l7_upstream_rt

Average Server Response Time

Average response time of backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

Unit: ms

NOTE:

The average response time it takes to establish a WebSocket connection may be very high. This metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m1a_l7_upstream_rt_max

Maximum Server Response Time

Maximum response time of backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

Unit: ms

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m1b_l7_upstream_rt_min

Minimum Server Response Time

Minimum response time of backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

Unit: ms

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m1c_l7_rt_max

Maximum Layer-7 Response Time

Maximum response time of the monitored object.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object receives requests from the clients and ends when it returns all responses to the clients.

Unit: ms

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

m1d_l7_rt_min

Minimum Layer-7 Response Time

Minimum response time of the monitored object.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object receives requests from the clients and ends when it returns all responses to the clients.

Unit: ms

≥0 ms

Shared load balancer - listener

1 minute

Table 3 Metrics supported by each backend server group

Metric ID

Name

Description

Value Range

Monitored Object

Monitoring Period

(Raw Data)

m9_abnormal_servers

Unhealthy Servers

Number of unhealthy backend servers associated with the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

ma_normal_servers

Healthy Servers

Number of healthy backend servers associated with the monitored object.

Unit: Count

≥0

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m17_l7_upstream_rt

Average Server Response Time

Average response time of backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

Unit: ms

NOTE:

The average response time it takes to establish a WebSocket connection may be very high. This metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥ 0ms

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m1a_l7_upstream_rt_max

Maximum Server Response Time

Maximum response time of backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

Unit: ms

≥ 0ms

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m1b_l7_upstream_rt_min

Minimum Server Response Time

Minimum response time of backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

The response time starts when the monitored object routes the requests to the backend server and ends when the monitored object receives a response from the backend server.

Unit: ms

≥ 0ms

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

mb_l7_qps

Layer-7 Query Rate

Number of requests the monitored object receives per second.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m18_l7_upstream_2xx

2xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 2xx status codes returned by the backend servers. This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m19_l7_upstream_3xx

3xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 3xx status codes returned by the backend servers. This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m15_l7_upstream_4xx

4xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 4xx status codes returned by the backend servers. This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m16_l7_upstream_5xx

5xx Status Codes Backend

Number of 5xx status codes returned by the backend servers.

This metric is available only when the frontend protocol is HTTP or HTTPS.

Unit: Count/s

≥0/s

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m25_l7_resp_Bps

Backend Server Response Bandwidth

The bandwidth that the monitored object uses to return response to clients.

Unit: bits/s

NOTE:

When HTTP/2 is enabled for a listener, this metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥ 0bit/s

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

m24_l7_req_Bps

Backend Server Request Bandwidth

The bandwidth that the monitored object uses to receive requests from clients.

Unit: bits/s

NOTE:

When HTTP/2 is enabled for a listener, this metric cannot be used as a reference.

≥ 0bit/s

Shared load balancer - backend server group

1 minute

Dimensions

Key

Value

lbaas_instance_id

ID of a shared load balancer

lbaas_listener_id

ID of a listener added to a shared load balancer

lbaas_pool_id

ID of a backend server group