Amazon Transit Gateway monitoring integration

Important

Enable the AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams integration to monitor all CloudWatch metrics from your AWS services, including custom namespaces. Individual integrations are no longer our recommended option.

New Relic infrastructure integrations include an integration for reporting your AWS Transit Gateway data to New Relic. Here we explain how to activate the integration and what data it collects.

Activate integration

To enable this integration follow standard procedures to Connect AWS services to New Relic.

Configuration and polling

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using configuration options.

Default polling information for the AWS Transit Gateway integration:

New Relic polling interval: 5 minutes
Amazon CloudWatch data interval: 1 minute

Find and use data

To find your integration data, go to one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Infrastructure > AWS and select an integration.

Data is attached to the following event type:

Entity	Event Type	Provider
TransitGateway	`AwsTransitGatewayTransitGatewaySample`	`AwsTransitGatewayTransitGateway`

For more on how to use your data, see Understand and use integration data.

Metric data

This integration collects AWS Transit Gateway data for TransitGateway.

Transit Gateway TransitGateway data

Metric	Unit	Description
`bytesIn`	Count	The number of bytes received by the transit gateway.
`bytesOut`	Count	The number of bytes sent from the transit gateway.
`packetsIn`	Count	The number of packets received by the transit gateway.
`packetsOut`	Count	The number of packets sent by the transit gateway.
`packetDropCountBlackhole`	Count	The number of packets dropped because they matched a blackhole route.
`packetDropCountNoRoute`	Count	The number of packets dropped because they did not match a route.
`bytesDropCountBlackhole`	Count	The number of bytes dropped because they matched a blackhole route.
`bytesDropCountNoRoute`	Count	The number of bytes dropped because they did not match a route.