Monitor your Site Networking
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Objective
This document provides instructions on how to monitor your site networking in F5® Distributed Cloud Console. To learn more about site and how Console provides monitoring support, see Distribtued Cloud Site and Monitoring.
Using the instructions provided in this document, you can look at an overview of the networking for your tenant and get details for any or all of the tunnels and interfaces used.
Prerequisites
Note: If you do not have an account, see Create a VES Account.
- One or more cloud or edge locations with a Site
Note: Install the node or cluster image in your cloud or edge location. See Create a Site for more information.
Activities of Monitoring
In the Cloud and Edge Sites
service, select Site Connectivity
-> Site Networking
. This page defaults to the Dashboard
, which provides an overview of key networking metrics. You can also view the specifics for you tunnels and interfaces by selecting those tabs respectively.
Dashboard
The Firewall dashboard shows an aggregation of all firewall activity related to all your apps running on all your sites. Various information is presented in different sections withing the dashboard.
Dashboard Filters
The dashboard contents are dependent on the settings in the right-justified, top bar of options.
- The time drop-down allows you to specify the time period for the data shown, including both quick-pick options like
Last 24 hours
and the ability to specify a custom time period. - Click the
Refresh
button next to the time drop-downs to update the contents of the dashboard manually.
Status
The Status
section shows counts for various items of interest for your site networking.
-
Sites
shows the total number of sites in your tenant. -
Alerting Sites
shows the total number of sites reporting an issue. You can see a list of all alerts and their associated sites by going to Notifications/Alerts from the options pane. -
Tunnels
shows the total number of Tunnels used in your tenant. -
Tunnel Alerts
shows how many tunnels have active alerts where the tunnel interface is down. Click on theTunnel Alerts
title to see these specific alerts. -
The
Interfaces Down
,Data Plane Down
, andControl Plane Down
columns show their respective quantity of those types of interface problems. Click any the title to see the a list of those specific interface problems in theInterfaces
tab. -
Tunnel Health < 70
shows how many tunnels are have problems with reduced health. Click the title to see those specific tunnels experiencing reduced health in theTunnels
tab.
Top 10 Sites
The next row of data sections shows the top ten sites within your tenant sorted by data sent and data received respectively.
Top 10 Tunnels
The next row of data sections shows the top ten tunnels sorted by latency, drop rate, and throughput, respectively.
- Click on a section title to see more details in the
Tunnels
tab. - Click on a tunnel listed in the
by Latency
section to see latency specifics for the tunnel inSystem Metrics
. - Click on a tunnel listing in the
by Drop Rate
orby Throughput
section to see drop rate or throughput specifics for the tunnel inSystem Metrics
.
For more information on System Metrics
see Inspect Site System Metrics under Explore a Site.
Tunnels
The Tunnels
tab shows all the tunnels in your tenant. Use the various table controls to quickly find issues and see details for the specifics you care about.
Table Controls
- The settings icon at the top-right allows you to select which columns are shown.
- Enter a string in the
Search
field to show only those rows containing that string. - Use the
Add label
field to only show rows fitting the criteria you select. - Hover over a column name to see column options:
- Click on the column name to sort by that column. Click again to invert the sort.
- Drag a column border to change the width of a column.
- Drag the six-dot icon to move a column.
- Click on a tunnel listed in the
Tunnel Name
column to see throughput, latency, and other specifics for the tunnel in theSystem Metrics
tab underSites/Connectivity
. - At the bottom of the table, you can select the number of items shown per page and which page is shown.
Interfaces
The Interfaces
tab shows all the interfaces in your tenant. Use the various table controls to quickly find issues and see details for the specifics you care about.
Table Controls
- The settings icon at the top-right allows you to select which columns are shown.
- Enter a string in the
Search
field to show only those rows containing that string. - Use the
Add label
field to only show rows fitting the criteria you select. - Hover over a column name to see column options:
- Click on the column name to sort by that column. Click again to invert the sort.
- Drag a column border to change the width of a column.
- Drag the six-dot icon to move a column.
- Click on an interface listed in the
Interface Name
column or a throughput or drop rate value to see throughput and/or drop rate for the site/interface in theMetrics
tab underSites/Connectivity
. - At the bottom of the table, you can select the number of items shown per page and which page is shown.