Configuring AWS Elastic Load Balancer monitoring
The Amazon ELB agent provides you with a central point of monitoring for the health, availability, and performance of your AWS Elastic Load Balancers. The agent displays a comprehensive set of metrics for each load balancer type-application, network and classic-to help you make informed decisions about your AWS Elastic Load Balancer environment.
Before you begin
- Read the entire Configuring AWS Elastic Load Balancer monitoring topic to determine what is needed to complete the configuration.
- The directions here are for the most current release of the agent, except as indicated. For more information about how to check the version of an agent in your environment, see Agent version command.
- Make sure that the system requirements for the Amazon ELB agent are met in your environment. For the up-to-date system requirement information, see the Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) for the Amazon ELB agent.
- Ensure that the following information is available:
- The AWS security credentials (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) with permission to access each AWS region with Elastic Load Balancers.
About this task
The Amazon ELB agent is both a multiple instance agent and also a subnode agent. The subnodes are created automatically for each type of Elastic Load Balancer that is available in your AWS environment.
Procedure
What to do next
In the Cloud APM console, go to your Application Performance Dashboard to view the data that was collected. For more information about using the Cloud APM console, see Starting the Cloud APM console.
If you are unable to view the data in the agent dashboards, first check the server connection
logs and then the data provider logs. The default paths to these logs are listed here:
/opt/ibm/apm/agent/logs
C:\IBM\APM\TMAITM6_x64\logs