AWS ELB log monitoring with Log360

AWS ELB log monitoring with Log360

ManageEngine Log360 provides built-in support for AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) as part of its comprehensive SIEM and log management capabilities. By integrating AWS ELB with Log360, organizations gain deep visibility into traffic distribution, request handling, and access behaviors across load-balanced EC2 instances, enabling threat detection, compliance auditing, and operational monitoring from a centralized console.

How Log360 ingests AWS ELB logs

Log360 uses an agentless approach to collect ELB access logs from AWS environments. These logs are typically stored in Amazon S3 buckets. Log360 connects securely to the configured S3 bucket using AWS credentials and ingests ELB logs at regular intervals for parsing and analysis.

Types of logs collected

Log360 parses ELB access logs that contain detailed information about each request routed through the load balancer, including:

• Client IP address
• Request timestamp
• Back-end target IP and port
• Latency and processing times
• Response codes (HTTP status and target status)
• Chosen target and listener rules
• SSL negotiation details (if HTTPS is enabled)

Monitoring capabilities

• ELB traffic analysis: Monitor request rates, latency, and back-end response times.
• Access control monitoring: Identify unusual IP patterns and unauthorized requests.
• ELB error events detection: Track 4xx/5xx status codes and failed connections.
• SSL/TLS visibility: Analyze handshake failures and cipher mismatches.
• Configuration change tracking: Monitor changes to listener rules, target groups, and load balancer settings.
• Custom alerts: Generate alerts for traffic spikes, repeated failures, or policy violations.

Critical AWS ELB events monitored

• HTTP/S request logs with status codes and response times
• Target health checks and back-end failure metrics.
• SSL negotiation failures and TLS errors
• Unusual traffic surges from suspicious IPs
• Misconfigured listener ports or routing rules
• ELB error events and load balancer configuration changes

Key benefits

• Centralized visibility: Correlate ELB access logs with logs from AWS services, on-premises servers, and cloud platforms.
• Enhanced security: Detect anomalies in traffic patterns or unauthorized access attempts.
• Operational efficiency: Resolve latency and failure issues faster with detailed request tracing.
• Compliance support: Leverage prebuilt reports on ELB error events and configuration changes to meet auditing needs.

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