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Adding Cloud Devices for Monitoring

ObserveOps (formerly known as AIOps) monitors cloud resources from AWS, Azure, and Office 365 by discovering them through a cloud credential profile and provisioning them as monitors. Once provisioned, ObserveOps continuously collects performance metrics and generates alerts based on what it finds. You can customize Monitor Settings for each monitor, including polling intervals, thresholds, and alert notifications.

Cloud Vendors and Services Supported

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Supported Service
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
Amazon SNS
Amazon SQS
Amazon ELB
AWS Lambda
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Auto Scaling
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon MQ
AWS WAF
AWS ACM (Certificate Manager)
AWS KMS (Key Management Service)
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Cognito User Pool
Amazon Athena
AWS Config

Microsoft Azure

Supported Service
Web App Service
Azure Storage
Azure VMs
Azure SQL Database
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Application Gateway
Azure CDN
Azure Load Balancer
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Service Bus
Azure Functions

Microsoft Office 365 (O365)

Supported Service
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Exchange Online
Microsoft OneDrive

Adding AWS Resources for Monitoring

Prerequisites

  1. You need the Access Key and Secret Key of the AWS account.
  2. Your AWS IAM user needs specific permissions assigned. View the JSON file with required permissions here.

1. Create a Credential Profile

Go to Menu. Select Settings Settings icon. Select Discovery Settings Discovery settings icon. Select Credential Profile. The Credential Profile screen opens. Select Create Credential Profile.

Create Credential Profile button on the Credential Profile screen

The Create Credential Profile form opens.

Create Credential Profile form with Cloud protocol and AWS tab selected

FieldWhat to Enter
Credential Profile NameA unique name to identify this profile
ProtocolSelect Cloud
Cloud TypeSelect AWS
Access KeyThe AWS IAM access key ID
Secret KeyThe AWS IAM secret access key

Select Reset to clear all fields. Select Add Credential Profile to save.

The profile now appears in the Credential Profile list.

Credential Profile list showing the newly created AWS Cloud profile

2. Create a Discovery Profile

Go to Menu. Select Settings Settings icon. Select Discovery Settings Discovery settings icon. Select Discovery Profile. The Discovery Profile screen opens. Select Create Discovery Profile.

Create Discovery Profile button on the Discovery Profile screen

The Create Discovery Profile form opens. Select Cloud from the sidebar.

Discovery Profile form with Cloud category selected

AWS Cloud is selected by default.

FieldWhat to Enter
Discovery Profile NameA unique name to identify this profile
CollectorsOne or more Collectors for data collection. If you skip this, ObserveOps selects a Collector automatically.
GroupsOne or more Groups to assign to provisioned monitors
Credential ProfileSelect the AWS Cloud credential profile you just created
TagsTags to assign to discovered devices
Discover Down InstancesSet to ON to discover instances even when their services are down. Set to OFF to skip them.
Resources to be MonitoredSelect Monitor All Resources to monitor everything discovered. Select Monitor Resources Selected By Tags to filter by AWS resource tags.
Key/ValueThe tag key and value to filter by. Only appears when you select Monitor Resources Selected By Tags.
Notify TeamEmail addresses, handles, or user profiles to notify when discovery completes
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Select Collectors based on how you want to distribute the monitoring load.

Select Save and Run to save and start discovery immediately. Select Save and Exit to save without running.

Discovery Profile form filled in with AWS Cloud details

3. Provision the Discovered Devices as Monitors

After discovery starts, ObserveOps connects to your AWS account and scans for resources.

Discovery run in progress for AWS resources

When the run completes, ObserveOps shows all discovered resources. Select the ones you want to add as Monitors.

Provisioning screen showing discovered AWS resources with checkboxes to select

Select Add Selected Objects to provision the selected resources as monitors. ObserveOps now collects metrics continuously.

To view the monitors, go to Menu. Select Monitor. Select Cloud.

Monitor navigation panel with Cloud category selected showing provisioned AWS monitors

The AWS resources are now added to ObserveOps.