Monitoring Session

GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS offers a sophisticated approach to network visibility through customizable Monitoring Sessions. These sessions allow you to tailor your visibility strategy with precision, focusing on specific aspects of your AWS environment:

Workload Selection

You can select target workloads to define the scope of your monitoring:

  • Select VMs or pods based on various criteria
  • Utilize filters such as VPC name, subnet, IP address, VM tags, or pod labels
  • Align selections with your predefined Monitoring Domain boundaries

Traffic Acquisition

You can specify the types of traffic to capture from selected sources:

  • Options vary depending on the chosen acquisition technology
  • Customize traffic selection to match your monitoring requirements

Traffic Processing

You can leverage a comprehensive suite of traffic processing features:

  • Apply various GigaSMART Applications to refine and optimize captured traffic.
  • Enhance security and efficiency of your monitoring solutions
  • Tailor the data sent to analysis tools for maximum relevance

Configuring these elements within a Monitoring Session allows you to create a finely-tuned visibility policy that aligns perfectly with your specific monitoring objectives in AWS environments.

After you define a Monitoring Session, GigaVUE‑FM

  • Automatically configures the required traffic acquisition points

  • Processes the traffic.

  • Sends the captured traffic to GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

  • Forwards the process data to to your analysis tools.

The following diagram provides a high-level overview of an example Monitoring Session:

The above diagram display an example to monitor VMs tagged with project = "Saturn". For this, you

  • Define a Monitoring Session with this tag filter

  • Choose UCT-V to acquire traffic

  • Apply packet slicing in the V Series Nodes

  • Forward traffic to your analysis tool at IP 1.2.3.4

When deployed, GigaVUE-FM:

  • Discovers all matching VMs in your Monitoring Domain

  • Configures UCT-V on these VMs

  • Starts forwarding sliced packets to your tool

If new Saturn-tagged VMs are launched, GigaVUE-FM detects them automatically. It applies the same monitoring policy without manual action.

Benefits

  • Focus monitoring on only the workloads you need

  • Control how traffic is captured and processed

  • Automatically update monitoring as your environment changes

For more information, see Configure Monitoring Session.