Documentation forSolarWinds Observability

Transit Gateway metrics

AWS Transit Gateways connect your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks through a central hub, acting as highly scalable cloud routers — each new connection is made only once. This connection simplifies your network and puts an end to complex peering relationships.Ensure your cloud platform is configured in SolarWinds Observability 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 AWS Transit Gateway 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 for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the AWS Transit Gateway metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type AWS.TransitGateway in the search box.

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

Health score. A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction.

To view the health score for AWS Transit Gateway entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select awstransitgateway.

AWS.TransitGateway.BytesDropCountBlackhole

BytesDropCountBlackhole. The total number of bytes dropped because they matched a blackhole route.

AWS.TransitGateway.BytesDropCountNoRoute

BytesDropCountNoRoute. The total number of bytes dropped because they did not match a route.

AWS.TransitGateway.BytesIn

BytesIn. The total number of bytes received by the transit gateway.

AWS.TransitGateway.BytesOut

BytesOut. The total number of bytes sent from the transit gateway.

AWS.TransitGateway.PacketDropCountBlackhole

PacketDropCountBlackhole. The total number of packets dropped because they matched a blackhole route.

AWS.TransitGateway.PacketDropCountNoRoute

PacketDropCountNoRoute. The total number of packets dropped because they did not match a route.

AWS.TransitGateway.PacketsIn

PacketsIn. The total number of packets received by the transit gateway.

AWS.TransitGateway.PacketsOut

PacketsOut. The total number of packets sent by the transit gateway.