Monitoring Your Infrastructure
In the world of IT infrastructure management, having a real-time understanding of the health and performance of your systems is essential. Motadata AIOps introduces the Monitors, a way to provide comprehensive insights into your IT environment, empowering you to proactively manage and optimize your infrastructure.
Monitors play a pivotal role in enabling real-time monitoring and generating insightful performance metrics. With Motadata AIOps, you can monitor a wide range of infrastructure elements, from servers and networks to cloud resources, services, and more. By categorizing monitors based on their infrastructure type, you gain a structured view of your IT landscape.
Navigation
Go to the Main Menu. Select 
. The screen to view the monitor details is displayed.
Monitor Screen
Let's explore the Monitors screen in detail, including how monitors are categorized by infrastructure, utilize predefined templates, and harness the power of real-time monitoring insights to maintain a resilient and high-performing IT environment.
Monitors Categorization Based on Infrastructure
In Motadata AIOps, effective monitoring begins with a clear and organized view of your IT infrastructure. The Monitors Categorization Based on Infrastructure allows you to categorize and manage monitors according to different types of infrastructure. This categorization simplifies the process of monitoring and provides quick access to the monitior you need.
| Infrastructure Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Server & Apps | Monitors related to your servers and applications. |
| Network | Monitors related to your network devices. |
| Cloud | Monitors related to cloud infrastructure monitoring |
| Service Check | Monitors for service checks. |
| Virtualization | Monitoring related to virtualized environments. |
| Service | Monitors specific to services. |
| Process | Monitors related to processes. |
| Interface | Monitors for interfaces. |
| Other | Additional monitors that may not fit into the above categories. |
Actions available on the Monitors Screen
For each infrastructure category, you'll find a list of monitors available for monitoring. On each of these screens, you can perform the following actions:
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
| Export | Export the list of monitors in CSV or PDF format for reference. |
| Filter | Easily filter the list of monitors based on details such as alert severity and monitor type. |
| Set Tag as a Column | Select this option add key:value based tags as a column to the monitor details. The Key will be listed as the column name and the value will be available against each monitor under this column based on the value of the tags. |
Reset Column Preference
To reset column preference and unhide all hidden columns on the Monitor screen, click on the 'eye' icon and choose the Reset Column Preference option.
Predefined Templates to View Monitor Details
Motadata AIOps offers a range of predefined templates tailored to each infrastructure category and device type. These templates provide you with an instant overview of essential monitoring details. The goal is to simplify monitoring, ensuring that you have the right information at your fingertips.
When you drill down on a specific monitor, you can view the more details related to that monitor.
The following details are available on the screen
Metrics Overview: Get an overview of critical metrics related to the state of each monitor on the pre-defined monitor templates created uniquely based on the infrastructure type to cater to your specific monitoring needs.
Metric Explorer: Drill down on a monitor to analyze its metrics using the Metric Explorer tab.
Active Policies: See which policies have been created for a particular monitor.
Actions available for individual monitors
When you drill down on a specific monitor, you'll discover a set of actions designed to enhance your monitoring capabilities:
Poll Now: Instantly poll metrics related to the monitor.
SSH Terminal: Select this option to open an SSH terminal for the monitor. This feature allows you to establish a secure SSH connection to the device directly from the monitor screen, enabling real-time command-line interactions.
Execute Runbook: Select this option to execute a Runbook assigned to the selected monitor. The list of all the runbooks assigned to the monitor will be displayed once you click on this button. You can then execute the Runbook that you wish to execute.
Export: Export the predefined template as an image in PNG format.
View More: Access additional details about the monitor such as the Summary, Polling Info, Triggered Policies, and Action History, tailored to its infrastructure type.
Dashboard Overview for Each Infrastructure Category
Select the 
icon to view the dashboard overview screen related to that infrastructure.
The Dashboard overview provides a comprehensive view of each infrastructure category. You can monitor and manage your infrastructure effectively with the following insights available on the dashboard screen:
Total Monitor Count: See the total number of monitors present in each infrastructure category on the 'Health Overview' widget.
Alert Severity: Check the number of monitors in each alert severity category for each monitor group.
Highest Severity Alerts: Drill down on the heat map to view details about the highest severity alerts raised for each monitor.
With Monitors Categorization Based on Infrastructure, Motadata AIOps empowers you to efficiently organize, monitor, and manage your IT infrastructure, ensuring the smooth operation and proactive management of your environment.