Monitoring and optimizing with the Internet Monitor dashboard in CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch

Monitoring and optimizing with the Internet Monitor dashboard in CloudWatch

Using the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor dashboard in the AWS Management Console, you can visualize data and get insights and suggestions about your AWS application's internet traffic, and configure options for your monitor.

After you create a monitor to monitor your application's internet performance and availability, Internet Monitor stores internet measurements for pairs of your client locations and ASNs, or city-networks. Internet Monitor also creates aggregated CloudWatch metrics for traffic to your application, and to each AWS Region and edge location. You can filter, explore, and get action-oriented suggestions from your monitor's information in several different ways. The Internet Monitor dashboard guides you through viewing and getting insights about the data for your monitored traffic.

To get started, on the CloudWatch console, under Network monitoring, choose Internet Monitor.

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This section primarily describes how to filter and view Internet Monitor metrics using the AWS Management Console. Alternatively, you can use Internet Monitor API operations with the AWS CLI or an SDK to work directly with Internet Monitor events stored in CloudWatch Logs files. For more information, see Using your monitor and measurements information. For more information about using API operations, see Examples of using the CLI with Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor and the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor API Reference.

There are five pages (tabs) in the Internet Monitor dashboard:

  • On the Overview page, you can see your application's current performance and availability (overall), an aggregated view of your monitored traffic volume and time to first byte over the past 24 hours, a summary of recent and current health events, and the top suggestion for potentially improving performance for your clients.

  • On the Health events page, you can see current and historical health events that currently impact, or previously impacted, locations where clients access your application.

  • On the Analyze page, you can view information about top monitored traffic in client locations (by traffic volume), summarized in several customizable ways. You can also see historical trends for health scores and metrics. You can filter by location, ASN, date, and so on, and visualize metrics for your internet traffic over time.

  • On the Optimize page, Internet Monitor predicts your application's performance improvement for top AWS Regions (or Amazon CloudFront), based on your traffic patterns and past performance. For each top configuration, associated tables provide a breakdown of reduced latency by client location. On a second page, you can select multiple Regions (and, if you like, include CloudFront configurations) to compare latency reductions. For each configuration (Region) that you selected, the page displays an associated table of latency details, listed by city location.

  • On the Configure page, you can see monitor details and configure options, such as the percentage of traffic to monitor.

In addition to these dashboard options, you can use tools for deeper dives into details of the metrics that Internet Monitor collects with your monitor. Internet Monitor generates and publishes log files with the measurements about your traffic, so you can use other CloudWatch tools in the console to further visualize the data published by Internet Monitor, including CloudWatch Contributor Insights, CloudWatch Metrics, and CloudWatch Logs Insights. For more information, see Exploring your data with CloudWatch tools and the Internet Monitor query interface.

Learn about using Internet Monitor to explore your performance and availability measurements in the following sections.

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