Amazon's suite of networking and content delivery services is designed to enhance application performance, security, and scalability. With services like API Gateways, AWS Direct Connect, AWS CloudFront, NAT Gateways, and Route 53 Health Checks, you can ensure seamless network management, optimized routing, and secure communication, which collectively enhance and maintain high performance. Applications Manager's AWS Networking and Content Delivery monitoring capabilities provide comprehensive insights into the performance and availability of these services, helping you to ensure efficient content delivery across the globe.
Amazon API Gateway service allows developers to create, publish, maintain, and secure at scale, acting as a gateway for applications to access backend services like AWS Lambda, EC2, or other AWS resources. Applications Manager's Amazon API Gateway monitoring tool supports HTTP API, REST API and WebSocket API types.Keep track of the number of requests to gauge the demand and identify usage patterns, enabling better capacity planning and scaling decisions. Get notified about overall latency and integration latency to understand the time taken for API requests and backend integrations and pinpoint performance bottlenecks in real-time.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that facilitates the rapid distribution of static and dynamic content, such as HTML, CSS, JS, image, and video files to users. Applications Manager's AWS CloudFront monitor offers detailed visibility into your CloudFront distributions helping you ensure faster delivery of content from various locations. It keeps track of critical metrics of your CloudFront distribution servers from different edge locations that plays a crucial role in rapid content delivery and notifies you instantly in case of outages or delays in content loading times.
Monitor origin latency to identify bottlenecks in the response time from origin server. Obtain deep insights into cache hit ratio to ensure that requests are effectively served from the CloudFront's cache, which directly impacts latency and reduces the load on the origin. Thorough monitoring of error rates and Lambda@Edge errors can help detect configuration or backend issues and guaranteeing proper execution of custom request processing functions. Analyze request breakdowns to understand s traffic patterns and identify anomalies and track recent validations to get insights into caching efficiency.
With the help of Amazon Direct Connect offers a dedicated network connection between your on-premises systems and Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring a private, high bandwidth, low latency link without relying on public internet. This means that workloads and data transfers will become more consistent and reliable.
With Applications Manager, you can monitor major KPIs like connection errors, bandwidth, and packet rate. You can also closely track connection bandwidth and packet rate to get deep insights into the network's usage patterns and performance. Tracking bandwidth usage helps ensure that the connection does not exceed its capacity, preventing throttling or degraded performance. It also helps optimize bandwidth allocation for cost management, as higher data transfer rates can incur additional charges. You `can also monitor packet rates to understand the volume of data being transferred and detect abnormal spikes or drops in traffic that may indicate potential security incidents or network issues.
The AWS NAT Gateway enables secure communication from instances in private subnets to services outside your VPC, without exposing those instances to incoming internet traffic. With Applications Manager's AWS NAT Gateway monitoring tool, you can obtain deep insights into the performance of your NAT gateways.
Keep an eye on connection statistics and active connections to identify traffic patterns, detect anomalies, and manage capacity planning. Calculate the volume of data passing through the NAT Gateway by closely monitoring data throughput and Packet throughput. Tracking metrics such as Peak packets, Packet drops, and Idle connection timeouts can also provide insights into the network health and pinpoint potential performance bottlenecks with ease.
AWS Route 53 Health Checks allows you to monitor the health and performance of endpoints, such as web servers and applications., Applications Manager's AWS Route 53 Health check monitoring tool supports CLOUDWATCH_METRIC, CALCULATED, TCP, HTTP and HTTPS type health checks.
Track critical metrics such as TCP connection time, first byte latency, and SSL handshake time to ensure secure and fast connections. By proactively monitoring these metrics, you can ensure traffic is routed to healthy endpoints, minimizing downtime and enabling automatic failover for a seamless user experience.
It's necessary to monitor all of the AWS services that are being used to keep your applications running at peak performance. Applications Manager's AWS performance monitoring supports popular services like:
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