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Network Monitoring

Monitor performance and availability of your AWS Network and Internet service providers

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Benefits

Monitor network performance easily

Quickly deploy, scale, and manage network performance monitoring for your AWS and hybrid workloads, and internet traffic, without requiring on-premises installation or manual instrumentation.

Visualize network health and information

Quickly visualize network events and take action on pre-built dashboards that provide metrics for latency, packet loss, and more. Flow monitoring provides real-time metrics on the latency and packet-loss of TCP-based AWS workloads. Synthetic monitoring provides real-time packet loss and latency metrics by probing your network packet paths inside AWS and to your on-premises networks. Internet monitoring performs hop-by-hop analyses to pinpoint issues by the geographic areas and internet service providers (ISPs) affected.

Identify and troubleshoot the root cause of network issues

Pinpoint if an internet availability or network issue is caused by a specific ISP or by the AWS network, to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of network issues. Quickly identify the cause of performance issues and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).

Alert or alarm proactively on issues

Continuously observe the health of your AWS application between AWS resources, on the internet, or on your hybrid network, and alert or alarm on issues proactively, to get notified quickly about critical events that affect your clients. You can create alarms for internet performance degradation or set alerts for network health issues, such as latency.

Proactively manage the quality of your end user experience

If you experience degradation in your AWS workloads, flow monitoring helps you determine if the problem is caused by your application stack or the underlying AWS infrastructure so you can proactively manage the quality of experience for your customer.

Use cases

Monitor AWS network performance for your workloads

Flow monitoring provides granular insights into the network performance of AWS workloads to help you pinpoint the root cause of issues quickly. Access real-time metrics, like round-trip latency and packet loss for your actual workloads that span multiple AWS accounts. Identify if the cause of your workload impairment is the underlying AWS network via a network health indicator (NHI). Flow monitoring supports NHI for flows within a single AWS Region as well as for flows between AWS Regions over the AWS global network.

Monitor AWS network performance for your networks

Synthetic monitoring gives you visibility into your network performance within AWS and over your hybrid connections. Access real-time metrics, like round-trip latency and packet loss, to monitor the network. Customize date ranges on the synthetic monitoring dashboard to view historical packet loss and round-trip time, to help you troubleshoot issues using the network health indicator (NHI).

View AWS network health and take action

Flow and synthetic monitoring provide a network health indicator (NHI) that monitors performance and availability of AWS network. Customers who have workloads on AWS or hybrid workloads over AWS Direct Connect, can identify performance degradation, and then take action to measure impact and improve network health.

Set alerts and view all your internet traffic and events in one place

Use internet monitoring to identify health events that impact your end user experience for applications hosted on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud VPCs, Network Load Balancers, Amazon WorkSpaces, or Amazon CloudFront distributions. With internet monitoring, you can create thresholds based on granular levels for performance issues. You can also get insights based on near real-time analysis of internet traffic latency and availability. Set alerts, and view all your internet traffic and events in one place.

Identify internet user traffic patterns

You can use internet monitoring to identify your client locations that generate the most traffic to your application. After you identify high traffic locations, get suggestions for traffic optimization and latency improvements by switching AWS Regions or services.