Network Monitoring

Network Flow Monitor provides near real-time visibility into network performance, such as packet loss and latency, for traffic between Amazon EC2 instances, as well as traffic toward other AWS services, such as Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. Network Flow Monitor works by using data from lightweight software agents that you install to run on your instances. These fully-managed agents gather performance statistics from TCP connections and send them to the Network Flow Monitor backend. By creating monitors for specific agents and then using Network Flow Monitor dashboards, you can quickly visualize packet loss and latency of your network connections, and use attribution information to determine where to focus your troubleshooting efforts to improve your end users’ experience.

Internet Monitor uses the connectivity data that AWS captures from its global networking footprint to calculate a baseline of performance and availability for internet-facing traffic. You can see a global view of traffic patterns and health events, and easily drill down into information about events. You can also get alerts for internet health events that affect your application clients. In addition, you can use insights that Internet Monitor provides to explore potential improvements to your client experience, by using Amazon CloudFront or routing through different AWS Regions.

Network Synthetic Monitor uses fully-managed agents to enable you to track and visualize latency and packet loss for hybrid network connections. To gather measurements and enable Network Synthetic Monitor to create health event alerts for your application, you create probes that are sent from your resources hosted on AWS to on-premises destination IP addresses. You don't need to install additional agents to monitor your network performance. As with Internet Monitor, you can set alerts and thresholds, get information to help you quickly troubleshoot issues, and then take action to improve your end user experience.