Monitor your Site
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This document provides instructions on how to monitor your site in F5® Distributed Cloud Console. To learn more about site and how Console provides monitoring support, see Site and Monitoring.
Using the instructions provided in this document, you can check the health, connectivity status, and metrics of your site.
Prerequisites
Note: If you do not have an account, see Create an Account.
- One or more cloud or edge locations with a Site.
Note: Install the Distributed Cloud node or cluster image in your cloud or edge location. See Create a Site for more information.
Activities of Monitoring
The following video provides a brief tutorial on how to monitor your site:
Perform the activities presented in the following chapters to monitor your site.
Find a Site
In the Cloud and Edge Sites
service, or any service that provides the Sites
configuration menu option, you will see three options for viewing your sites: Site Map
, which shows all your sites and regional edges on a world map; Site List
, which displays a tabular view of your sites; and Connectivity
, which shows a graphical view of your sites and how they connect to the regional edges.
Site Map
Select Sites
from the configuration menu and Site Map
from the options pane to see all your sites displayed on a world map.
The map shows your sites and regional endpoints as symbols on the map giving both location information and health status.
Map Symbol | Represents |
---|---|
Registration | |
Healthy Site | |
Warning Site | |
Alert Site | |
Regional Edge | |
Encircled number indicates quantity of sites and/or edges represented by the circle, and the circle colors indicate the statuses shown above in this table. This example represents two regional edges, one healthy site, and one warning site. |
Interact with the map:
- Use the
Show Legends Filters
dropdown menu to filter the symbols shown - Use the
Search Site on map
dropdown to find a specific site or regional edge. For sites, you will also see the site details panel (Shown below). - Hover the cursor over a symbol to see details for that symbol.
- Click on a numbered circle to zoom in and see the associated sites and/or regional edges.
- Click on a site to see the site details panel (Shown below).
Site details panel:
The Detail
tab provides some details about the site, and the Health
tab provides an overview of the site's health. Select Explore Site for an indepth look at the site.
Site List
Click Site List
to see an overview of all of your sites. Entries under the Name
column with a circle next to them are the sites on the tenant, and those with a square next to them are regional edges. The color of each site circle represents the health of the site: Green - healthy, Yellow - degraded health, Red - seriously degraded health.
Click on a site in the list to get an in-depth view of the site - see Explore a Site
Site Connectivity
Select Sites
->Site Connectivity
-> PoP (RE) Connectivity
from the options pane to see all your sites and how they are connected to the regional edges. By default, the Graph
tab will display, showing a graphical representation of the connectivity.
Move your pointer to hover over the connectivity links to display the statistics of connectivity.
Click any connectivity link and check the right pane for additional metrics and statistics.
Sample details view:
Sample health view:
Click on Explore Site
to get an in-depth view of the site - see Explore a Site.
The System Metrics
and Application Metrics
tabs display graphical information on the health details of your sites.
The main bar chart shows information for the site you select in the upper left drop-down menu, based on your selection in the right column of categories and your time-frame selection in the upper right corner. In the example above, the bar chart shows the In Throughput
and Out Throughput
for store200 for the past hour.
Explore a Site
Dashboard: Inspect site dashboard.
The site dashboard presents an overall monitor view for your site so that you can inspect overall system healthscore, application healthscore, active alerts, connectivity, software status, and resource usage.
Select Sites
from the configuration menu and Site List
from the options pane. The Health Score
field on the displayed site list shows the overall health score of the site in points. Click >
next to a listed site to obtain detailed site information in the JSON format.
Click on any site name in the Name
column to load the dashboard for that site.
Monitor your site dashboard using the following guidelines:
-
Check
System Metrics
part of the dashboard to get a snapshot for the throughput, drop rate, reachability, and deployment information. Click on any of the field value to load theSystem Metrics
tab for obtaining detailed information on that field. -
Check
Application Metrics
to get a snapshot for the request rate, error rate, latency, and throughput. -
Check
Active Alerts
to get a snapshot for the request rate, error rate, latency, and throughput. ClickActive Alerts
to load theAlerts
tab for detailed information on the alerts. -
Check
Inside(LAN) Interfaces
andOutside(WAN) Interfaces
to monitor the interface status, throughput, and the data (both in and out). -
Check
Software Version
to get a snapshot of theF5 Software
andOperating System
information. You can also perform upgrades using theUpgrade
button if an upgrade is available. -
Check
Denied Rules Hit
to monitor the request attempts which are configured to be rejected. -
Check
RE Connectivity
to get a snapshot of the connectivity status to the REs. -
Check
Nodes: CPU, Memory and Disk Usage
andPods: CPU, Memory and Disk Usage
to monitor the resource consumption information of nodes and pods respectively.
Note: Click
Last 10 minutes
dropdown on the upper right end of the dashboard and select a time interval to inspect your site dashboard for that interval. The default for this is 10 minutes. You can also refresh the status periodically by setting a refresh value using theRefresh every
field. Alternatively, clickRefresh
next to theLast 10 minutes
option to manually refresh the status.
System Metrics: Inspect Site System Metrics.
The system metrics presents an overall view for your site system so that you can inspect reachability, throughput, drop rate, deployment count, pod count, and connection status. The metrics are displayed in graphs representing the trend over a period of time (default 1 hour).
Select Sites
from the configuration menu and Site List
from the options pane. Click on any site to load the dashboard for that site. Click the System Metrics
tab.
Note: The
Data Plane Reachability
information is displayed by default.
- Click on
In Throughput
orOut Throughput
fields on the right side under theThroughput
section to display the throughput trend. Each field has 2 graph bar fields to its left. Select an area of one field and the other area of the second field to display combined graph for in throughput and out throughput.
-
Click on
In Drop Rate
orOut Drop Rate
fields on the right side under thePackets per second
section to display the packet drop rate trend. Each field has 2 graph bar fields to its left. Select an area of one field and the other area of the second field to display combined graph for in and out drop rate. -
Click on
Deployment Count
orPod Count
fields on the right side under theCount
section to display the deployment and pod count trend. Each field has 2 graph bar fields to its left. Select an area of one field and the other area of one of the other fields to display combined graph for them. -
Click on
Data Plane Reachability
field on the right side under thePercent
section to display the reachability trend. -
Click on
Connection Status
orControl Plane Status
fields on the right side under theStatus
section to display the connection and control plane status trends. Each field has 2 graph bar fields to its left. Select an area of one field and the other area of one of the other fields to display combined graph for them.
Note: Click
Last 1 hour
dropdown on the upper right end of the dashboard and select a time interval to inspect your site dashboard for that interval. The default for this is 1 hour and maximum allowed interval is 24 hours. You can customize the interval by selecting theCustom
option and choosing date range. This can also be set graphically by adjusting the controls beneath the main graph.
Application Metrics: Inspect Site Application Metrics.
Click the Application Metrics
tab to load the site application metrics view:
The application metrics present the trend of the following metrics in graph view over a default or configured time interval:
- Request rate
- Error rate
- Latency
- App Latency
- Client and Server Round-Trip Time (RTT)
- Upstream and downstream throughput
You can select any two metrics under a field such as Rate
to display the combined graph for them.
You can change the time interval either using the drop-down option or using the controls beneath the graph.
Site Status: Inspect Site Status.
Click the Site Status
tab to load the site status view:
The Site Status
tab shows the following fields:
F5 Software Status
F5 OS Status
Scaling Status
RE Connectivity
In the F5 Software Status
and F5 OS Status
fields, the option to perform upgrade or reload is also available. In the RE Connectivity
field, click a connected RE to load its details in JSON format.
Nodes: Inspect Site Nodes.
Click the Nodes
tab to load the node monitoring view:
Click on a node to open the node monitoring view. The Node Status
tab gets displayed by default. You can also perform upgrades to the node software and operating system from here for that node.
Click on the Hardware Information
tab to obtain detailed information on the node hardware. In this view, click on any of the network device name to display its detailed information in the JSON format.
Click the Metrics
tab in the node monitoring view to display graph for node metrics.
Interfaces: Inspect Site Interfaces.
Click the Site Interfaces
tab to load the site interfaces view:
Use the toggle selection to switch between inside and outside interface monitoring view. Click on any interface to open its metrics view.
Alerts: Inspect Site Alerts.
Click the Alerts
tab to load the alerts view:
The active alerts are displayed by default. Use the toggle selection to load all alerts. You can also set a time interval in the active alerts view to display alerts over a specific period of time. Click >
for any alert entry to display details in JSON format.
Requests: Inspect Site Requests.
Click the Site Requests
tab to load the view for the trend of sampled HTTP requests:
The requests are displayed in a graphical trend as well as in a list for the default or specific time interval. Click >
for any listed request to display detailed information in JSON format.
You can apply filters to display the trend for specific HTTP codes. For example, de-select all and select only 2xx
to display the requests for HTTP code 2XX.
You can get more details on the requests by clicking Forensics
at the right of the graph to show the Forensics
side panel.
Top Talkers: Inspect Site Connections.
Click the Top Talkers
tab to load the view traffic by the top 10 apps and top flows.
The two Top 10 Apps
tables show the top applications sending and receiving data as the amount of data sent or received. Top Flows
shows source and destination traffic for top applications.
Connections: Inspect Site Connections.
Click the Connections
tab to load the view for the trend of sampled HTTP connections.
The connections are displayed in a graphical trend as well as in a list for the default or specific time interval. Click >
for any listed request to display detailed information in JSON format.
You can apply filters to display the trend for connections based on OK connections or connections with errors. For example, de-select all and select only Client Errors
to display only connections that experienced a client error.
You can get more details on the requests by clicking Forensics
at the right of the graph to show the Forensics
side panel.
Flow Table: Inspect Site Flow Table.
Click the Flow Table
tab to get more information on how data is flowing through your site. Each row of the table provides information such as source and destination IPs, ports, TCP flags, packet counts, and more. To see additional information for any flow between IP addresses, click the arrow ( >
) at the left of a row to drop down the JSON or YAML for that row.
DHCP: Inspect Site DHCP Setup.
Click the DHCP
tab to see all DHCP clients and subnets on the site, and well as the details for each.
Status Objects: Inspect Site Status Objects.
Click the Site Status Objects
tab to load the view status objects related to site:
Click on any status object to load its status in the JSON format.
Tools: Additional Site Tools.
The Tools
tab provides a set of tools for more site exploration and device interaction.
Select a tool from the drop-down list, enter any required or optional fields, and then press the blue button at the bottom, e.g. Show
, Reboot
, Call ping
, etc. For example, select Traceroute
from the drop-down list and fill in the two required fields, Node name
and Destination
. Enter values for any desired optional fields and then press the blue button at the bottom, Call traceroute
, to run the tool.