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AWS elb metricset

Serverless

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Elastic Load Balancing publishes data points to Amazon CloudWatch for your load balancers and your back-end instances. This aws elb metricset collects these Cloudwatch metrics for monitoring purposes.

AWS Permissions

Some specific AWS permissions are required for IAM user to collect AWS ELB metrics.

Text 
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases

Dashboard

The aws elb metricset comes with a predefined dashboard for classic ELB. For example:

metricbeat aws elb overview

Configuration example

YAML 
- module: aws
  period: 300s
  metricsets:
    - elb
  access_key_id: '${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:""}'
  secret_access_key: '${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:""}'
  session_token: '${AWS_SESSION_TOKEN:""}'
  # This module uses the aws cloudwatch metricset, all
  # the options for this metricset are also available here.

Metrics

elb metricset collects Cloudwatch metrics from classic ELB, application ELB and network ELB.

Metrics for Classic ELB

Metric Name Statistic Method
BackendConnectionErrors Sum
HealthyHostCount Maximum
HTTPCode_Backend_2XX Sum
HTTPCode_Backend_3XX Sum
HTTPCode_Backend_4XX Sum
HTTPCode_Backend_5XX Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_4XX Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_5XX Sum
Latency Average
RequestCount Sum
SpilloverCount Sum
SurgeQueueLength Maximum
UnHealthyHostCount Maximum
EstimatedALBActiveConnectionCount Average
EstimatedALBConsumedLCUs Average
EstimatedALBNewConnectionCount Average
EstimatedProcessedBytes Average

Metrics for Application ELB

Metric Name Statistic Method
ActiveConnectionCount Sum
ClientTLSNegotiationErrorCount Sum
ConsumedLCUs Average
HTTP_Fixed_Response_Count Sum
HTTP_Redirect_Count Sum
HTTP_Redirect_Url_Limit_Exceeded_Count Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_3XX_Count Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_4XX_Count Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_5XX_Count Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_500_Count Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_502_Count Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_503_Count Sum
HTTPCode_ELB_504_Count Sum
IPv6ProcessedBytes Sum
IPv6RequestCount Sum
NewConnectionCount Sum
ProcessedBytes Sum
RejectedConnectionCount Sum
RequestCount Sum
RuleEvaluations Sum

Metrics for Network ELB

Metric Name Statistic Method
ActiveFlowCount Average
ActiveFlowCount_TLS Average
ActiveFlowCount_TCP Average
ActiveFlowCount_UDP Average
ConsumedLCUs Average
ConsumedLCUs_TCP Average
ConsumedLCUs_TLS Average
ConsumedLCUs_UDP Average
ClientTLSNegotiationErrorCount Sum
NewFlowCount Sum
NewFlowCount_TLS Sum
NewFlowCount_TCP Sum
NewFlowCount_UDP Sum
ProcessedBytes Sum
ProcessedBytes_TCP Sum
ProcessedBytes_TLS Sum
ProcessedBytes_UDP Sum
TargetTLSNegotiationErrorCount Sum
TCP_Client_Reset_Count Sum
TCP_ELB_Reset_Count Sum
TCP_Target_Reset_Count Sum
UnHealthyHostCount Maximum
HealthyHostCount Maximum

This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.

Fields

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

JSON 
{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "aws": {
        "cloudwatch": {
            "namespace": "AWS/ELB"
        },
        "dimensions": {
            "Namespace": "AWS"
        },
        "elb": {
            "metrics": {
                "HealthyHostCount": {
                    "max": 2
                },
                "Latency": {
                    "avg": 0.000005960464477539062
                },
                "RequestCount": {
                    "sum": 1
                },
                "SurgeQueueLength": {
                    "max": 1
                },
                "UnHealthyHostCount": {
                    "max": 0
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "428152502467",
            "name": "elastic-beats"
        },
        "provider": "aws",
        "region": "us-east-1"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "aws.elb",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "aws"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "elb",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "aws"
    }
}