Amazon’s networking infrastructure services form the backbone of secure and reliable connectivity across hybrid and multi-region AWS environments. With Applications Manager’s Amazon Network Infrastructure monitoring, you can gain deep visibility into the health and performance of key connectivity components such as VPNs, Direct Connect links, gateways, and PrivateLink endpoints. Monitor link utilization, tunnel uptime, packet loss, and routing efficiency in real time — helping you ensure uninterrupted network availability and secure data transfer between your on-premises and AWS workloads.
AWS Client VPN provides secure remote access to both AWS and on-premises resources. With Applications Manager, you can monitor the health and usage of your VPN endpoints to ensure seamless remote connectivity. Keep track of data and packet flow to and from the VPN, monitor active connections, and detect authentication failures. You can also observe configuration file downloads and identify issues such as timeouts, invalid responses, or denied connections via the connect handler. Stay on top of potential issues by monitoring certificate expiry and receive alerts about errors or performance dips—ensuring a secure and reliable VPN experience for your users.
With the help of Amazon Direct Connect offers a dedicated network connection between your on-premises systems and Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring a private, high bandwidth, low latency link without relying on public internet. This means that workloads and data transfers will become more consistent and reliable.
With Applications Manager, you can monitor major KPIs like connection errors, bandwidth, and packet rate. You can also closely track connection bandwidth and packet rate to get deep insights into the network's usage patterns and performance. Tracking bandwidth usage helps ensure that the connection does not exceed its capacity, preventing throttling or degraded performance. It also helps optimize bandwidth allocation for cost management, as higher data transfer rates can incur additional charges. You `can also monitor packet rates to understand the volume of data being transferred and detect abnormal spikes or drops in traffic that may indicate potential security incidents or network issues.
An Amazon Direct Connect virtual interface (VIF) is a logical connection that is provisioned on a physical AWS Direct Connect link to enable network communication between your on-premises data center and AWS. Applications Manager enables you to monitor different types of private virtual interfaces such as Private interface (Private VIF), Public virtual interface (Public VIF), and Transit virtual interface (Transit VIF).
The AWS NAT Gateway enables secure communication from instances in private subnets to services outside your VPC, without exposing those instances to incoming internet traffic. With Applications Manager's AWS NAT Gateway monitoring tool, you can obtain deep insights into the performance of your NAT gateways.
Keep an eye on connection statistics and active connections to identify traffic patterns, detect anomalies, and manage capacity planning. Calculate the volume of data passing through the NAT Gateway by closely monitoring data throughput and Packet throughput. Tracking metrics such as Peak packets, Packet drops, and Idle connection timeouts can also provide insights into the network health and pinpoint potential performance bottlenecks with ease.
AWS PrivateLink enables secure and private connectivity between your VPC and supported AWS or custom services, without using the public internet. With Applications Manager, you can monitor data exchange using metrics like Data Processed and Rate of Data Processed, which indicate the total amount of data transferred and the speed at which it flows between the endpoint and the service. Track how many connections are active or newly established to assess the current load on your endpoint and determine if scaling is necessary. If the number of RST Packets Sent (reset packets) increases, it could be a sign that some connections are failing or that the target service is unhealthy.
When you expose your service to other AWS accounts or VPCs using AWS PrivateLink Endpoint Service, it's important to monitor its performance. Applications Manager helps you track the number of connected endpoints over time using the Endpoints Count metric, so you know how many consumers are using your service. Just like with endpoint monitoring, you can keep an eye on data flow using Data Processed and Rate of Data Processed, and monitor connection activity with Active Connections and New Connections. A spike in RST Packets Sent may indicate issues with backend resources or dropped connections.
The AWS Site-to-Site VPN allows you to secure connections between your on-premises network or data center and your AWS environment using IPSec tunnels. Each connection typically includes two tunnels for improved redundancy and reliability. With Applications Manager, you can monitor the health and performance of these VPN tunnels in real-time. Get visibility into tunnel status, data transfer rates, and traffic flow, helping you ensure stable and secure communication between your on-premise infrastructure and AWS resources. You can also track tunnel status changes, see which routes are successfully propagated, and receive alerts when tunnels go down or data flow drops unexpectedly. This allows you to quickly detect disruptions, troubleshoot configuration issues, and maintain reliable VPN connectivity across your hybrid cloud environment.
AWS Transit Gateway simplifies your network by acting as a central hub that connects multiple VPCs and on-premises networks. With Applications Manager, you can keep an eye on its performance and connectivity to ensure everything operates smoothly. Monitor data and packet flow to understand how much traffic passes through your gateway. You can also get insights into dropped data or packets, which can help detect routing issues or misconfigurations early on. In addition to traffic stats, track the health and status of each attachment connected to the gateway—such as VPCs or VPNs—and ensure they are correctly associated with the route tables. Monitoring these key metrics helps ensure stable connectivity, efficient routing, and quicker troubleshooting in your AWS network setup.
It's necessary to monitor all of the AWS services that are being used to keep your applications running at peak performance. Applications Manager's AWS performance monitoring supports popular services like:
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