Monitoring and config management - Hybrid Networking Lens

Monitoring and config management

Monitoring and config management is an important way to gain insights and improve the performance of your hybrid networking environment. AWS provides the following monitoring and config management services that enable you to monitor your AWS services and resolve the root causes of performance issues based on your business needs.

Amazon CloudWatch enables you to access system metrics on the AWS services that are being used, consolidate system and application level logs, and create business KPIs as custom metrics for your specific needs. CloudWatch provides dashboards and alerts that can trigger automated actions on the platform.

AWS Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you and The Service Health Dashboard provides public information about the regional availability of a service. While the Service Health Dashboard displays the general status of AWS services, AWS Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.

VPC Reachability Analyzer is a configuration analysis tool that enables you to perform connectivity testing between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs). When the destination is reachable, reachability analyzer produces hop-by-hop details of the virtual network path between the source and the destination. When the destination is not reachable, reachability analyzer identifies the blocking component. While VPC reachability analyzer doesn’t test end to end hybrid connectivity, it can analyze connectivity between VPN gateways (VGW or TGW) and a target within a VPC.

Transit Gateway Network Manager (Network Manager) enables you to centrally manage your networks that are built around transit gateways. You can visualize and monitor your global network across AWS Regions and on-premises locations.

Route Analyzer is a part of Transit Gateway Network Manager that allows you to perform an analysis of the routes in your transit gateway route tables. The Route Analyzer analyzes the routing path between a specified source and destination, and returns information about the connectivity between components. You can use the Route Analyzer to perform the following actions:

  • Verify that the transit gateway route table configuration will work as expected before you start sending traffic

  • Validate your existing route configuration

  • Diagnose route-related issues that are causing traffic disruption in your global network

AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. With Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting.