NAT Gateway Monitoring Integration

NAT gateways pave the way for seamless traffic flow from instances in the private subnet to the internet or other AWS services. Monitor NAT gateways with Site24x7 to identify traffic disruptions quickly and measure the volume of traffic flow.

Setup and configuration

If you haven't done it already, enable access to your AWS resource by creating Site24x7 as an IAM user or by creating a cross-account IAM role between your account and Site24x7's AWS account. Learn more.
Next, In the Integrate AWS Account page, please make sure the NAT Gateway checkbox is selected in the Services to be discovered field. Learn more.

Policies and permissions

Please make sure the following read level actions are present in the IAM policy assigned to Site24x7 entity. Learn more.

"ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
"ec2:DescribeNetworkAcls",
"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
"ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",
"ec2:DescribeFlowLogs",
"ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
"ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
"ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport",
"ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink",
"ec2:DescribeVpcs",
"ec2:DescribeAddresses"

Polling frequency

Site24x7 queries AWS to collect NAT gateway performance metrics according to the configured poll frequency. The minimum poll interval supported is one minute, and the maximum is 24 hours. Learn more.

Supported Metrics

Attribute	Description	Data type	Statistic
Active Connection Count	The total number of concurrent active TCP connections through the NAT gateway.	Count	Maximum
Bytes In from Destination	The number of bytes received by the NAT gateway from the destination.	MB	Sum
Bytes In from Source	The number of bytes received by the NAT gateway from clients in your VPC.	MB	Sum
Bytes Out from Destination	The number of bytes sent out through the NAT gateway to the destination.	MB	Sum
Bytes Out from Source	The number of bytes sent through the NAT gateway to the clients in your VPC.	MB	Sum
Connection Attempt Count	The number of connection attempts made through the NAT gateway.	Count	Sum
Connection Established Count	The number of connections established through the NAT gateway.	Count	Sum
Error Port Allocation	The number of times the NAT gateway could not allocate a source port.	Count	Sum
Idle Timeout Count	The number of connections that transitioned from the active state to the idle state.	Count	Sum
Packets Drop Count	The number of packets dropped by the NAT gateway.	Count	Sum
Packets In from Destination	The number of packets received by the NAT gateway from the destination.	Count	Sum
Packets In from Source	The number of packets received by the NAT gateway from clients in your VPC	Count	Sum
Packets Out to Destination	The number of packets sent out through the NAT gateway to the destination.	Count	Sum
Packets Out to Source	The number of packets sent through the NAT gateway to the clients in your VPC.	Count	Sum

Forecast

Estimate future values of the following performance metrics and make informed decisions about adding capacity or scaling your AWS infrastructure.

Active Connection Count
Connection Attempt Count
Connection Established Count
Error Port Allocation
Packets Drop Count

NAT Gateway Monitoring UI pages

Summary

Get an overview of your NAT gateway’s status and performance with time series charts displaying the number of connections, throughput, and idle timeout.

Monitoring the NAT gateway

NAT Gateway Details

View configuration details of the NAT gateway, including its status, VPC ID, Subnet ID, and IP address.

VPC Details

Get the complete inventory details of your VPC, including the VPC ID, VPC Status, IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR blocks, and tags associated with the VPC.

Subnet Details

View all configuration details including the subnets where the NAT Gateway is present, the VPC ID, Flow Logs, Route Table and the Tags associated with the Subnet.

Network ACL

View a list of the subnets that use the network ACL and the IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR, along with details about the inbound and outbound rules.

Route Table

See all the route tables used by the NAT gateway inside VPC.