Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Route 53 metrics

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Ensure your cloud platform is configured in SolarWinds Observability SaaS to collect this service's data. See Add an AWS cloud account. CloudWatch metrics must also be enabled for this service in the AWS Console for the metric data to be available.

Many of the collected metrics from Route 53 entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the Route 53 metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type AWS.Route53 in the search box.

Metric Units Description
sw.metrics.healthscore Percent (%)

Health score. The health state provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health state is determined based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health state is displayed as one of the following four states and colors: Good, Moderate, Bad, or Unknown. You can determine the impact of the alerts, anomalies, and statuses on the health of an entity type by going to Settings > Health, and selecting a specific entity type. You can also customize the impact.

To view the health of Route53 entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select awsroute53.

AWS.Route53.ChildHealthCheckHealthyCount

Count

For a calculated health check, the number of health checks that are healthy among the health checks that Amazon Route 53 is monitoring.

AWS.Route53.ConnectionTime

milliseconds (ms)

The average time, in milliseconds, that it took Amazon Route 53 health checkers to establish a TCP connection with the endpoint.
AWS.Route53.DNSQueries Count The number of DNS queries received by Amazon Route 53.

AWS.Route53.HealthCheckPercentageHealthy

Percent (%)

The percentage of Amazon Route 53 health checkers that consider the selected endpoint to be healthy.

AWS.Route53.HealthCheckStatus

Boolean

The status of the health check endpoint that CloudWatch is checking 1 indicates healthy, and 0 indicates unhealthy.

AWS.Route53.SSLHandshakeTime

milliseconds (ms)

The average time, in milliseconds, that it took Amazon Route 53 health checkers to complete the SSL handshake.

AWS.Route53.TimeToFirstByte

milliseconds (ms)

The average time, in milliseconds, that it took Amazon Route 53 health checkers to receive the first byte of the response to an HTTP or HTTPS request.