Monitoring local gateway connectivity
You can monitor the connection status and BGP session state of your local gateway virtual
interfaces from the AWS Outposts console. In the console, navigate to your Outpost and choose the
Local Gateway Virtual Interfaces tab. The Network
Status column shows whether each VIF is up and ready to forward traffic. Choose
the status link to open a pre-built Amazon CloudWatch graph showing VifConnectionStatus
and VifBgpSessionState for that VIF. These metrics are published automatically to
the AWS/Outposts namespace for all Outpost VIFs and require no additional setup.
To receive proactive notification when a VIF goes down or a BGP session is no longer in the
Established state, you can optionally create a CloudWatch alarm on either metric. For
descriptions of metric values and dimensions, see CloudWatch metrics for Outposts racks.
Note
If you build dashboards or alarms directly against the
VifConnectionStatus or VifBgpSessionState metrics, note that
the dimension name differs depending on which CloudWatch widget you use: the updated widget uses
OutpostId, while the legacy widget still uses OutpostsId for
backward compatibility. Confirm which dimension name your dashboard or alarm definition
expects to avoid missing data. For more information, see Metrics.
