Settings

This article covers the different tabs of the Cloud Insights > Settings section.

Some screens within Cloud Insights combine the data of multiple cloud providers, allowing you to filter by cloud provider, while others separate the cloud provider data into tabs. Cloud Insights > Views, for example, is combined while Cloud Insights > Inventory is tabbed. Of the Settings screens, FPS Monitoring and Integration Logs are combined while Tags Management is tabbed. AWS Integration Policies is currently only available for AWS. Where customers have set up Cloud Insights for both AWS and Azure, ThousandEyes distinguishes between the cloud environments as different tabs in the screens that are tabbed. Where customers have set up Cloud Insights for only one cloud environment, ThousandEyes does not separate these screens into tabs.

FPS Monitoring

Both Cloud Insights and Traffic Insights use FPS monitoring, where the functionality is similar, but for which the metrics are subtly different. Cloud Insights measures flow log records per second, as measured for the purposes of cloud traffic in the likes of AWS and Azure, while Traffic Insights measures flow records per second using NetFlow v9 and IPFIX standards. See Network Flow Record Requirements for more information about NetFlow v9 and IPFIX standards within Traffic Insights.

FPS Monitoring lets you monitor flow log records per second (FPS) and adjust FPS limits and unit consumption. The visual timeline graph reports the 95th percentile of FPS (see Peak Vs. 95th Percentile for more information), highlighting any spikes and consumption overages. The table underneath the timeline provides details that align with points on the timeline graph. The top of the page shows three tiles: the number of days you have been above your FPS limit, the recommended limit based on your recent usage, and your current FPS limit.

Flow Log Records Per Second (FPS)

FPS is a rate ThousandEyes calculates based on the number of flow log records being created in the configured storage service. In the case of AWS, for example, FPS is calculated using the files created and processed in the S3 bucket for the AWS account configured to integrate with ThousandEyes Cloud Insights. The flow log records are read in at the rate your cloud service provider is creating them.

The process for how ThousandEyes uses flow log records in AWS is as follows:

AWS sends the VPC flow log record to the S3 bucket.
S3 bucket service sends a notification to SNS topic.
ThousandEyes receives a notification from SNS.
The ThousandEyes AWS integration pulls in the flow log record from the S3 bucket and processes the entries on the flow log file.

Cloud Insights FPS Limit

Overages

Setting your FPS limit and managing overages works the same way in Cloud Insights as for Traffic Insights. See FPS Limit in the Traffic Insights article for more information. The key difference is in how you lower your FPS rate as opposed to increasing your FPS limit.

To decrease your FPS rate in Cloud Insights, you can decrease the number of specific resource groups and regions you want ThousandEyes to analyze flow logs for (currently only avaialble for AWS environments). Use the AWS Integration Policies tab to select the VPCs to pull flow logs from. For more information, see AWS Integration Policies.

Tags Management

The Tags Management tab lists your cloud provider tags. Select up to 5 tags to use as filters in Cloud Insights > Views.

Integration Logs

The Integration Logs tab tracks the status of retrieving data via your cloud provider integration. Warnings and errors are logged every minute until the issue is no longer occurring.

To troubleshoot a logged event, click on the > at the end of the row. This opens up the Log Details side panel where you can find more details about the error.

Click the Show More link to drill further into the details of the logged event.

AWS Integration Policies

The AWS Integration Policies tab allows you to choose the AWS resource groups and regions you want Cloud Insights to collect inventory and flow logs for. Enabling a resource group determines which network assets are imported from AWS. By default, all network elements are imported.

To enable or restrict a resource group or region, click the Edit button in the upper right-hand corner and select the checkbox next to the resource or region name. Unchecked items are skipped.

Click Save Changes to save your changes.

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