Metrics for NSX Advanced Load Balancer

VMware Aria Operations for Networks collects many metrics for NSX Advanced Load Balancer, including controller metrics, pool metrics, pool member metrics, service engine metrics, and virtual service metrics.

Controller Metrics

Metric Name	Metric API Name	Description
CPU Usage Rate (%)	cpu.usage.rate.average.percent	Average percentage of the CPU used out of its total capacity. Note: This metric provides the host's view of the CPU usage and not the guest operating system view. It is the average CPU utilization over all available virtual CPUs in the virtual machine.
Disk Usage Rate	disk.used.absolute.latest.percent	Average percentage of the disk used out of its total capacity.
Memory Usage Rate	mem.usage.absolute.average.percent	Average percentage of the memory used out of the total configured memory.

Pool and Pool Member Metrics

Metric Name	Metric API Name	Description
Current Connections	net.lbPoolCurrentConnections.absolute.latest.number	Number of current connections processed by this pool during the time interval.
Health Score	nsxalb.healthScore.absolute.latest.number	The score indicating the health of the pool.
Lossy Connections	nsxalb.lossyConnections.delta.summation.number	Number of lossy connections during the time interval between the service engine and the server.
Network Packet Count	net.packetsTotal.delta.summation.number	Total number of received and transmitted packets processed by this pool during the time interval.
Network Rx Rate (kbps)	net.received.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of received packets processed by this pool during the time interval.
Network Traffic Rate (kbps)	net.usage.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of received and transmitted packets processed by this pool during the time interval.
Network Tx Rate (kbps)	net.transmitted.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of transmitted packets processed by this pool during the time interval.
Rx Packets	net.packetsRx.delta.summation.number	Total number of received packets processed by this pool during the time interval.
Server Responses	nsxalb.l7ServerResponse.delta.summation.number	Total number of server HTTP responses handled by the pool during the time interval.
Tx Packets	net.packetsTx.delta.summation.number	Total number of transmitted packets processed by this pool during the time interval.

Service Engine Metrics

Metric Name	Metric API Name	Description
CPU Usage Rate (%)	cpu.usage.rate.average.percent	Average percentage of the CPU used out of its total capacity. Note: This metric provides the host's view of the CPU usage and not the guest operating system view. It is the average CPU utilization over all available virtual CPUs in the virtual machine.
Dropped Rx Packets	net.droppedRx.delta.summation.number	Average number of received packets in NSX Advanced Load Balancer virtual services and NSX Advanced Load Balancer non-virtual services dropped during the selected duration.
Health Score	nsxalb.healthScore.absolute.latest.number	The score indicating the health of the service engine.
Memory Usage Rate (%)	mem.usage.absolute.average.percent	Average percentage of the memory used out of the total configured memory.
Network Packet Count	net.packetsTotal.delta.summation.number	Total number of received and transmitted packets processed by all the vNICs of the service engine (VM) during the selected duration.
Network Rx Rate (kbps)	net.received.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of received packets across all the VNICs of the service engine.
Network Traffic Rate (kbps)	net.usage.rate.average.kiloBytesPerSecond	Average rate of received and transmitted packets across all the VNICs of the service engine.
Network Tx Rate (kbps)	net.transmitted.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of transmitted packets across all the VNICs of the service engine.
Network Tx Rate (kbps)	net.transmitted.rate.average.kiloBytesPerSecond	Average rate of transmitted packets across all the VNICs of the service engine.
Rx Packets	net.packetsRx.delta.summation.number	Number of packets received by all the vNICs of the service engine (VM) during the selected duration.
Session Count	net.connection.delta.summation.number	Number of connections to the service engine during the time interval. The number of connections include the dropped connections and the connections lost due to policy drops.
Tx Packets	net.packetsTx.delta.summation.number	Number of packets transmitted by all the vNICs of the service engine during the selected duration.

Virtual Service Metrics

Metric Name	Metric API Name	Description
Client Responses	nsxalb.l7ClientResponses.delta.summation.number	Number of HTTP responses sent to clients during the time interval.
Current Connections	net.lbVirtSvrCurrentConnections.absolute.latest.number	Number of connections completed during the time interval.
Health Score	nsxalb.healthScore.absolute.latest.number	The score indicating the health of the virtual service.
Network Packet Count	net.packetsTotal.delta.summation.number	Total number of received and transmitted packets during the time interval.
Network Rx Rate (kbps)	net.received.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of received packets during the time interval.
Network Traffic Rate (kbps)	net.usage.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of received and transmitted packets during the time interval.
Network Tx Rate (kbps)	net.transmitted.rate.average.kiloBitsPerSecond	Average rate of transmitted packets during the time interval.
New Connections	net.newConnections.delta.summation.number	Number of new connections established during the time interval.
Rx Packets	net.packetsRx.delta.summation.number	Number of received packets during the time interval.
SSL Connections	nsxalb.sslConnections.delta.summation.number	Number of new SSL transactions during the time interval excluding session reuse and errored connection attempts.
Tx Packets	net.packetsTx.delta.summation.number	Number of transmitted packets during the time interval.