AWS Site-to-Site VPN Monitoring


AWS Site-to-Site VPN - An Overview

AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that enables customers to securely connect their on-premises data centers or branch offices to AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. It supports connections to both Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and AWS Site-to-Site VPN, providing a reliable and scalable networking solution. Additionally, each VPN connection uses two tunnels to enhance redundancy and ensure high availability.

Creating a new AWS Site-to-Site VPN monitor

To learn how to create a new AWS Site-to-Site VPN monitor, refer here.

Monitored Parameters

Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on Site-to-Site VPN from the 'Child Monitors' under the Cloud Apps table. Displayed is the bulk configuration view distributed into three tabs:

  • Availability tab gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
  • Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
  • List view enables you to perform bulk admin configurations.

Click on the monitor name to see all the Amazon Site-to-Site VPN metrics listed under the following tabs:

Performance Overview

ParameterDescription
VPN CONNECTION INFORMATION
VPN Connection State The current state of the VPN connection.
Possible values: pending | available | deleting | deleted
Gateway Association State The current state of the gateway association.
Possible values: Associated | Not-associated | Associating | Disassociating
VPN Tunnel State The state of the VPN tunnels.
Possible values: UP | DOWN
TUNNEL INGRESS
Tunnel Data Ingress Rate The total amount of kilobytes received per second on the AWS side of the connection through the VPN tunnel from the customer gateway (in kB/s).
Tunnel Data Ingress The total amount of kilobytes received on the AWS side of the connection through the VPN tunnel from the customer gateway (in kB).
TUNNEL EGRESS
Tunnel Data Egress Rate The total amount of kilobytes sent per second from the AWS side of the connection through the VPN tunnel to the customer gateway (in kB/s).
Tunnel Data Egress The total amount of kilobytes sent from the AWS side of the connection through the VPN tunnel to the customer gateway (in kB).

Tunnel Details

ParameterDescription
Tunnel Details
Outside IP Address The public IP address used to establish the VPN tunnel connection.
Possible values: Valid PrivateIpv4 | PublicIpv4 | Ipv6 addresses
Status The current state of the tunnel.
Tunnel Data Egress Rate The total amount of data sent through the VPN tunnel between the poll interval (kB/s).
Tunnel Data Ingress Rate The total amount of data received through the VPN tunnel between the poll interval (kB/s).
Accepted Routes The number of routes successfully propagated to the tunnel from the route table.
Details Additional information or reason codes for the current tunnel status.
Last Status Change Time The timestamp of the most recent status change for the tunnel.

Note: Line charts will be displayed for both Tunnel Data Egress Rate and Tunnel Data Ingress Rate.

Configuration

ParameterDescription
CONFIGURATION
Virtual Gateway ID The ID of the virtual private gateway on the AWS side of the VPN connection.
Customer Gateway ID The ID of the customer gateway on the user's end of the VPN connection.
Transit Gateway ID The ID of the transit gateway associated with the VPN connection.
Type The type of VPN connection.
Category The category of the VPN connection.
Possible values: VPN | VPN-Classic
Routing Indicates whether the VPN connection uses static routes only.
Acceleration Indicates whether acceleration is enabled for the VPN connection.
Local IPv4 Network CIDR The IPv4 CIDR on the customer gateway (on-premises) side of the VPN connection.
Remote IPv4 Network CIDR The IPv4 CIDR on the AWS side of the VPN connection.
Tunnel Inside IP Version Indicates whether the VPN tunnels process IPv4 or IPv6 traffic.
Possible values: IPv4 | IPv6

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