Monitor and analyze network flows in Network Flow Monitor
With Network Flow Monitor, you can learn about network flows and performance for traffic that you're monitoring with your scope. Start by reviewing top contributors information, by each metric type, in the Workload insights tab. Then, create monitors so that you can explore network performance in detail, over different time frames, for network flows that you select in Workload insights.
After you initialize Network Flow Monitor and install agents on your instances, Network Flow Monitor generates performance metrics for the network flows from those instances. Review the sections in this chapter to learn more about how to use Network Flow Monitor to evaluate network performance in Network Flow Monitor, create monitors for more in-depth information, and learn about the specific metrics provided by Network Flow Monitor.
The steps provided in these sections use the AWS Management Console. You can also use Network Flow Monitor API operations with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS SDKs to review workload insights and top contributors metrics, and to create and configure a monitor. For more information, see the following resources:
If you plan to work with Network Flow Monitor with the CLI, see Examples of using the CLI with Network Flow Monitor.
For detailed information about working with Network Flow Monitor API operations, see the Network Flow Monitor API Reference Guide.
