How to Set Up AWS Traffic Mirroring for Astra API Monitoring | Full Step-by-Step Guide

This tutorial provides a complete walkthrough for setting up AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring to enable packet-level monitoring with Astra’s API Security platform.

You'll learn how to configure a scalable and production-ready environment using Network Load Balancers, Nitro-based EC2 instances, and properly filtered traffic sessions. The guide includes:

• VPC and subnet setup
• Launching source and target EC2 instances
• Configuring security groups and firewall rules
• Creating a Network Load Balancer
• Setting up a Traffic Mirror Target and Filter
• Creating and managing Traffic Mirror Sessions
• Deploying the Astra Packet Processor via Docker Compose or Ansible

It also covers key assumptions, unsupported configurations (like classic/Xen instances), and best practices for a secure and efficient deployment.

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