Alibaba Cloud provides various monitoring and log audit services, such as CloudMonitor and Cloud Config. These services help you monitor the usage and health of your EIP resources in real time and take prompt action on alerts. This ensures the availability of your EIP resources and the smooth operation of your services.
Troubleshooting
Network Intelligence Service (NIS) is an intelligent, self-service platform that provides planning, deployment, and O&M capabilities for your cloud network. NIS provides reference data for network planning and helps you identify and resolve network issues.
EIP is integrated with Network Intelligence Service. You can use NIS to diagnose instances and analyze traffic paths.
Instance diagnostics
EIP instance diagnostics can detect the configuration and operational status of an instance and suggest quick fixes for any detected issues. The diagnostics cover configuration, capacity limits, security policies, fees, and Internet connectivity. You can also view historical diagnostic details.
Path analysis
When you use an EIP for an Internet connection, you can use the path analysis feature to detect Internet connectivity between resources and diagnose connection problems caused by network configuration errors.
Basic CloudMonitor
EIP is integrated with the basic features of Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor, which you can use for free. This integration lets you monitor all EIP metrics in real time.
Real-time query of monitoring data
You can perform real-time monitoring of the operational status and usage of an EIP.
Threshold-triggered alerts for metrics
You can create threshold-triggered alert rules for EIP metrics. If a metric meets the alert condition, CloudMonitor automatically sends an alert notification. This helps you to be notified of abnormal monitoring data and resolve the issue quickly.
Subscribe to threshold-triggered events
When a metric meets the condition for a threshold-triggered alert, CloudMonitor automatically sends the original alert notification to the alert contact. You can subscribe to threshold-triggered events to customize alert notifications:
Merge and reduce noise: Merge alerts within the subscription scope of threshold-triggered events. Use conditional noise reduction to control the relevance of alerts and prevent alert storms.
Escalate alerts: CloudMonitor can send alerts directly to an alert contact. If an alert is not resolved within a specified period, CloudMonitor automatically sends the alert notification to the next alert contact group.
Custom notification methods: Define notification channel levels and templates as required. You can also use the push and integration features to push all alert data directly to Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS), Simple Log Service (SLS), Function Compute (FC), and webhooks.
Health status monitoring
You can check the page Alibaba Cloud Health Status page to track the health status of your cloud resources in real time. On this page, you can view the status of Alibaba Cloud services in each region and subscribe to service exception notifications through RSS. This helps you handle exceptions promptly.
Cloud resource configuration audit
Cloud Config is a resource audit service that provides features such as resource configuration history tracking and compliance auditing. Cloud Config helps you automate the supervision of your infrastructure and ensure continuous compliance for supported resources.
EIP is integrated with Alibaba Cloud Cloud Config, which is available for a free trial. Cloud Config supports a subset of Alibaba Cloud services. Therefore, the resource checklist contains only some of your resources.
Cloud Config provides a resource checklist that aggregates resources across regions. This helps you quickly find specific resources and view their configuration information and configuration history.
You can deliver the configuration history and non-compliance events of EIPs to a specified Logstore in Simple Log Service (SLS), and then use SLS to query and analyze the log data.
Cloud resource operation audit
EIP is integrated with Alibaba Cloud ActionTrail. ActionTrail records user logons and resource access operations performed on your Alibaba Cloud account to enable security analytics, intrusion detection, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing.
ActionTrail can record logs of operations performed on cloud products and services through the Alibaba Cloud Management Console, OpenAPI, and developer tools.
By default, events from the last 90 days are tracked and recorded. To store logs for a longer period, you need to create a trail to record the events in Simple Log Service or Object Storage Service (OSS).
After delivering events to SLS or OSS, you can query the events in the SLS or OSS console.
Create a data backfill delivery job to deliver historical trail events to Simple Log Service (SLS).
Log Service
EIP is integrated with Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service (SLS). This integration is enabled when you use the fine-grained monitoring feature. Fine-grained monitoring uses SLS to collect, process, and analyze log data, such as high-precision network bandwidth data for EIP. The data is delivered in real time to enable real-time log monitoring and auditing.
A large amount of Internet BGP traffic flows through EIPs. Internet BGP traffic requires low network latency and high quality Internet bandwidth. If the Internet bandwidth usage of an EIP reaches 100% but the bandwidth specification is not upgraded, packet loss may occur. As a result, the client performance and user experience are severely degraded. The fine-grained monitoring feature allows you to monitor traffic that flows through an EIP and adjust the bandwidth of an EIP in a timely manner.