Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

Version: AWS Log Forwarder v1.0.10 and above.

Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses automatically, in one or more AWS Availability Zones. It monitors the health of its registered targets, and routes traffic only to the healthy targets, and scales the load balancers as per incoming traffic.

Netsurion monitors events from Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) by parsing the AWS CloudTrail logs for it. Dashboards and reports in Netsurion allow you to monitor overall actions performed related to the ELB service so that you are informed about its activities. It will trigger alerts whenever an action critical to the application is carried out.

For a new instance, integrate the AWS instance to Netsurion using the Netsurion integrator AWS Lambda function, which will in turn deliver logs to Netsurion from Amazon Web Services. For an already-integrated AWS instance, make sure to update to AWS Log Forwarder to v1.0.10 or above.

Once configured to deliver events to Netsurion Manager, the alerts, dashboards, and reports can be configured into Netsurion.

Some of the Data Source Integrations available in Netsurion are listed below.

Alerts

Type Name Description
Security AWS ELB - Load balancer listener deleted This alert is triggered when a listener is deleted from a particular load balancer.
Security AWS ELB - Instance deregistered This alert is triggered when an instance is removed from the list of associated instances in a load balancer.
Security AWS ELB - Load balancer subnet/AZ removed This alert is triggered when a subnet or Availability Zone (AZ) is removed from the configuration settings of a load balancer.
Security AWS ELB - Target group deleted This alert is triggered when a target group is deleted from the load balancer configuration.
Security AWS ELB - Load balancer deleted This alert is triggered when a load balancer is purged and removed from the ELB service.

Reports

Type Name Description
Security AWS ELB - Elastic load balancer activities This Netsurion report will give a detailed overview of the actions triggered by the AWS ELB service. It gives information about the action, the time the action was triggered, user information related to it among some other details related to the configured load balancers.

Documentation

The configuration details are consistent with Netsurion version 9.3X and later, and ETS AWS LogForwarder v1.0.10 and above.

Download Integration Guide and How-to Guide for more information and to configuration instructions.