Amazon CloudWatch and ServiceNow Integration
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Input and output integration overview
This plugin will pull Metric Statistics from Amazon CloudWatch, streamlining the process of monitoring and analyzing AWS resources.
This output plugin streams metrics from Telegraf directly to a ServiceNow MID Server via HTTP, leveraging the nowmetric
serializer for efficient integration with ServiceNow’s Operational Intelligence and Event Management.
Integration details
Amazon CloudWatch
The Amazon CloudWatch Plugin allows users to pull detailed metric statistics from Amazon’s CloudWatch service. As a monitoring solution, CloudWatch enables users to track various metrics related to AWS resources and applications, facilitating improved operational and performance insights. The plugin uses a structured authentication method that prioritizes security and flexibility through a combination of STS (Security Token Service), shared credentials, environment variables, and EC2 instance profiles, ensuring robust access control to AWS resources. Key features include the ability to define specific metric namespaces, aggregated periods for metrics, and optional inclusion of linked accounts for cross-account monitoring. A significant aspect of this plugin is its capacity to handle both sparse and dense metric formats, allowing for varied output structures depending on user preference. Thus, it supports versatile use cases in cloud monitoring and analytics by providing comprehensive, timely data directly from CloudWatch.
ServiceNow
Telegraf can be used to send metric data directly to a ServiceNow MID Server REST endpoint. Metrics are formatted either using ServiceNow’s Operational Intelligence (OI) format or JSONv2 format, enabling seamless integration with ServiceNow’s Event Management and Operational Intelligence platforms. The serializer batches metrics efficiently, reducing network overhead by minimizing the number of HTTP POST requests. This integration allows users to quickly leverage metrics in ServiceNow for enhanced observability, proactive incident management, and performance monitoring, with ServiceNow’s operational intelligence capabilities.
Configuration
Amazon CloudWatch
[[inputs.cloudwatch]]
region = "us-east-1"
# access_key = ""
# secret_key = ""
# token = ""
# role_arn = ""
# web_identity_token_file = ""
# role_session_name = ""
# profile = ""
# shared_credential_file = ""
# include_linked_accounts = false
# endpoint_url = ""
# use_system_proxy = false
# http_proxy_url = "http://localhost:8888"
period = "5m"
delay = "5m"
interval = "5m"
#recently_active = "PT3H"
# cache_ttl = "1h"
namespaces = ["AWS/ELB"]
# metric_format = "sparse"
# ratelimit = 25
# timeout = "5s"
# batch_size = 500
# statistic_include = ["average", "sum", "minimum", "maximum", sample_count]
# statistic_exclude = []
# [[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics]]
# names = ["Latency", "RequestCount"]
# [[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics.dimensions]]
# name = "LoadBalancerName"
# value = "p-example"
ServiceNow
[[outputs.http]]
## ServiceNow MID Server metrics endpoint
url = "http://mid-server.example.com:9082/api/mid/sa/metrics"
## HTTP request method
method = "POST"
## Basic Authentication credentials
username = "evt.integration"
password = "P@$$w0rd!"
## Data serialization format for ServiceNow
data_format = "nowmetric"
## Metric format type: "oi" (default) or "jsonv2"
nowmetric_format = "oi"
## HTTP Headers
[outputs.http.headers]
Content-Type = "application/json"
Accept = "application/json"
## Optional timeout
# timeout = "5s"
## TLS configuration options
# tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
# tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
# insecure_skip_verify = false
Input and output integration examples
Amazon CloudWatch
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Cross-Account Monitoring: Utilize this plugin to monitor resources across multiple AWS accounts by enabling the
include_linked_accounts
option. This scenario allows companies managing multiple AWS accounts to aggregate metrics into a central monitoring dashboard, providing a unified view of all metrics while ensuring secure data access and compliance through proper role management. -
Dynamic Alerting System: Integrate this plugin with alerting tools to create an automated system that triggers alerts based on defined thresholds for CloudWatch metrics. For instance, if latency metrics exceed specified limits, alerts can be sent to relevant teams, enabling proactive responses to performance issues and reducing downtime.
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Cost Management Dashboard: Use the metrics gathered from the plugin to build a cost management dashboard that visualizes AWS service usage metrics over time. By correlating these metrics with billing data, organizations can identify high-cost services and take informed actions to optimize their resource usage and spending.
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Performance Benchmarking for Applications: Leverage the metrics collected from applications running on AWS to perform performance benchmarks. For example, by tracking latency and request count metrics for an ELB, developers can assess the impact of application changes on its performance, making data-driven decisions for optimization.
ServiceNow
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Proactive Incident Management: Utilize the Telegraf and ServiceNow integration to stream infrastructure and application metrics in real-time to ServiceNow Event Management. Automatically trigger incidents or remediation workflows based on thresholds, significantly reducing incident detection and response times.
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End-to-End Application Monitoring: Deploy Telegraf agents across multiple layers of an application stack, sending performance metrics directly into ServiceNow. Leveraging ServiceNow’s Operational Intelligence, teams can correlate metrics across components, quickly identifying performance bottlenecks.
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Dynamic CI Performance Tracking: Integrate Telegraf metrics with ServiceNow’s CMDB by using this plugin to push performance data, allowing automatic updates of Configuration Item (CI) health states based on live metrics. This ensures an accurate and current state of infrastructure health in ServiceNow.
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Cloud Resource Optimization: Collect metrics from hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures using Telegraf, streaming directly to ServiceNow. Leverage these metrics for real-time analytics, predictive capacity planning, and resource optimization, enabling proactive management and reduced operational costs.
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Powerful Performance, Limitless Scale
Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-velocity data. Any data is more valuable when you think of it as time series data. with InfluxDB, the #1 time series platform built to scale with Telegraf.
See Ways to Get Started
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