Network Load Balancer monitoring

The OCI Network Load Balancer is a fast, scalable service that distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend servers using network-level information, making it ideal for low-latency, long-running tasks like database applications. Site24x7 enhances the reliability of this service by providing real-time monitoring of backend health, connection performance, and listener availability to ensure traffic is routed only to healthy resources.

Overview

Site24x7’s integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Network Load Balancer enables end-to-end visibility and health tracking of your high-performance, low-latency load-balancing resources.

This integration helps you monitor the health status, traffic distribution, and resource usage of the Network Load Balancer and its associated components to ensure reliable application delivery and minimal latency. This integration also provides you with the following child monitors:

• Backend Set: A critical component of the OCI Network Load Balancer that defines how incoming traffic is distributed across backend servers. Monitoring Backend Sets with Site24x7 ensures that traffic is only routed to healthy backend servers, thereby maintaining service availability and enabling quick detection and resolution of performance issues.
• Listener: The entry point for client traffic into the Network Load Balancer that's configured to listen to specific ports and protocols. Site24x7 monitors each listener to track metrics such as incoming traffic, number of active connections, and port-level configuration details. Ensure seamless traffic flow into your applications, detect configuration errors early, and maintain optimal load balancer performance.

Use cases

A global e-commerce company hosts its customer-facing applications on OCI and relies on OCI Network Load Balancers to manage high volumes of TCP traffic across backend servers deployed in multiple availability domains. To ensure uninterrupted service during peak shopping periods, the company integrates its OCI Network Load Balancers with Site24x7.

With real-time health checks, connection metrics, and traffic flow visibility provided by Site24x7, the IT operations team can proactively detect backend server failures and abnormal traffic patterns. During a seasonal flash sale, Site24x7 alerts help the team quickly identify and isolate a misconfigured backend set, minimizing downtime and ensuring a seamless shopping experience for customers. This integration significantly enhances the company's ability to maintain high availability, troubleshoot faster, and scale operations with confidence.

Benefits of Site24x7's Load Balancer integration

Integrate your Network Load Balancer with Site24x7 and leverage the following benefits:

• Continuously monitor the health of backend servers and ensure reliable traffic distribution across instances.
• Track latency, dropped connections, and backend server response times to fine-tune load-balancing policies.
• Monitor traffic while preserving the original client IP for better traceability and diagnostics.
• Get notified about performance issues or health check failures before they impact users, enabling quick remediation.
• Gain deep visibility into connection patterns and backend statuses for faster root cause analysis.

Setup and configuration

• Site24x7 uses cross-tenancy access to monitor your resources using Site24x7's tenancy user. Log in to your Site24x7 account and create a specific policy to allow Site24x7 to view your resources without affecting your security.
• On the Integrate OCI Monitor page, select Load Balancer from the Services to be discovered list.

Policies and permissions

Ensure that the associated OCI policy has the following statements:

• read the network-load-balancer-family

Polling frequency

Site24x7 queries OCI service-level APIs according to the set polling frequency (from once a minute to once a day) to collect metrics from a Network Load Balancer monitor.

Supported metrics

Threshold configuration

To configure thresholds for a Network Load Balancer monitor:

1. Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability .
2. Click Add Threshold Profile .
3. Select OCI Network Load Balancer from the Monitor Type drop-down menu and provide an appropriate name in the Display Name field.
4. The supported metrics are displayed in the Threshold Configuration section. You can set threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.
5. Click Save .

Licensing

• Each Network Load Balancer monitor utilizes one basic monitor license .
• Each Backend Set monitor utilizes one basic monitor license.
• The Listener monitor is a free monitor.

Viewing Network Load Balancer data

To monitor your Network Load Balancer environment, log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Cloud > OCI > Network Load Balancer .

Monitor data

Related topic

Load Balancer monitoring