Network Load Balancer Metrics

Use metrics to measure the number and type of connections, and quantity of data managed by your network load balancer.

Network Load Balancer service metrics help you monitor the number and type of connections, and quantity of traffic processed by your network load balancer. You can use metrics data to diagnose and troubleshoot network load balancer and client issues.

To view a default set of metrics charts in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, navigate to the network load balancer or backend set you are interested in, and then click Metrics.

You can use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring service to create custom queries. Use the information contained in this topic for setting up monitoring. See Monitoring for more information.

Prerequisites

  • IAM policies: To monitor resources, you must be granted the required type of access in a policy  written by an administrator, whether you're using the Console or the REST API with an SDK, CLI, or other tool. The policy must give you access to the monitoring services as well as the resources being monitored. If you try to perform an action and get a message that you don’t have permission or are unauthorized, contact the administrator to determine the type of access you were granted and which compartment  you need to work in. For more information about user authorizations for monitoring, see IAM Policies (Monitoring).
  • The metrics listed on this page are automatically available for any load balancer, listener, and backend set you create. You do not need to enable monitoring on the resource to get these metrics.

Available Metrics: oci_nlb

Network Load Balancer metrics include the following dimensions :
RESOURCEID
The OCID of the network load balancer resource to which the metrics apply.
RESOURCENAME
The display name of the network load balancer resource to which the metrics apply.

Metric

Metric Display Name

Unit

Description

ProcessedBytes

Processed Bytes by the NLB

bytes

The total number of bytes processed by the network load balancer, including TCP/IP headers.

ProcessedPackets

Processed Packets by the NLB

count

The total number of packets processed by the network load balancer.

IngressPacketsDroppedBySL

Ingress Packets Dropped by Security List

count

Packets received from the network, destined for the NLB, dropped because of security rule violations.

EgressPacketsDroppedBySL

Egress Packets Dropped by Security List

count

Packets sent by the NLB, destined for the network, dropped because of security rule violations.

NewConnections

New Connections

count

Total number of new connections established between client and a backend.

NewConnectionsTCP

New TCP Connections

count

Total number of new TCP connections established between client and a backend.

NewConnectionsUDP

New UDP Connections

count

Total number of new UDP connections established between client and a backend.

HealthyBackends Number of Healthy Backends

count

The number of backends that Oracle considers healthy.

UnhealthyBackends

Number of Unhealthy Backends

count

The number of backends that Oracle considers unhealthy.

Viewing Metrics

  1. Open the navigation menu, click Networking, and then click Load balancers.

    The Load balancers page appears.

  2. Select the Compartment from the list.

    All load balancers and network load balancers in that compartment are listed in tabular form.

  3. (optional) Select a State from the list to limit the load balancers displayed to that state.
  4. (optional) Uncheck Load balancer under Type to only display network load balancers.
  5. Select the network load balancer whose metrics you want to view. Its Details page appears.
  6. Click Metrics under Resources.

    The Metrics section appears.

    You can specify the start and end time periods for which the metrics apply. You can also select various commands and view types from the Options list.