Amazon CloudWatch - OpsBridge Integration

Data Types: Events, Metrics, Topology

Amazon CloudWatch - OpsBridge Integration

If your IT team is using Micro Focus OpsBridge for monitoring of your systems, and Amazon Cloudwatch to manage your AWS resources, then you will benefit a lot from integrating the two systems and having them work together. Here is a popular scenario that ZigiOps can help you with.

The IT team gets notified that there is some topology data in Amazon Cloudwatch that is not available in Micro Focus OpsBrigde’s database. ZigiOps automatically fetches the missing topology data from Amazon CloudWatch and sends it to OpsBridge Manager (OBM) via the Ops Console. Topology is kept up to date with regular checks.

ZigiOps can also automatically synchronize existing alarms and monitoring data for all Amazon services or specific EC2 instances. The integration platform collects EC2 instances and sends them with their IP address, Volume IDs, Security Groups, Machine Images into OBM/OMi.

ZigiOps is also capable of extracting Amazon CloudWatch metrics and directly forwarding them to Micro Focus OpsBridge with all related host information. This way, metrics are accessible in Micro Focus and can be used to build dashboards.

Common challenges for Amazon Cloudwatch and Operations Bridge

Amazon CloudWatch is a popular tool that helps IT teams monitor applications, infrastructure and services. Micro Focus OpsBridge Manager (OBM), on the other hand, is one of the most used monitoring and IT operations management (ITOM) systems. Often companies use both tools to get a complete overview on their operations, but if they are not synchronized you risk delaying reaction to critical issues and missing on preventing IT problems early. A simple to use integration platform will help you transfer and update data between the two platforms effortlessly.

How do we solve them?

A powerful integration platform, like ZigiOps, will help you connect Amazon Cloudwatch with Micro Focus OpsBridge Manager in minutes. You don’t need any coding or API knowledge to set up and deploy your integration and start syncing events between the two applications instantly. Boost your productivity and speed up your responses to critical issues.