Google Cloud Storage and ServiceNow Integration
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Input and output integration overview
The Google Cloud Storage plugin collects metrics from specified Google Cloud Storage buckets, providing insight into storage usage and performance.
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
Google Cloud Storage
The Google Cloud Storage Telegraf plugin enables the collection of metrics from specified Google Cloud Storage buckets. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud storage solutions for their data management, the ability to monitor the performance and utilization of these resources becomes essential. This plugin is particularly useful for tracking how storage is used, understanding data patterns, and ensuring operational efficiency. By integrating with Google Cloud Storage APIs, it allows users to gather insights from their cloud environments, feeding metrics directly into monitoring systems for further analysis. The plugin supports various configuration options, enabling users to customize the data collection process based on their specific needs.
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
Google Cloud Storage
[[inputs.google_cloud_storage]]
bucket = "my-bucket"
# key_prefix = "my-bucket"
offset_key = "offset_key"
objects_per_iteration = 10
data_format = "influx"
# credentials_file = "path/to/my/creds.json"
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
Google Cloud Storage
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Automated Backup Monitoring: Utilize the Google Cloud Storage plugin to regularly monitor the status of backup files stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. By configuring the plugin to track file metrics, organizations can automate alerts if backup sizes deviate from expected patterns, ensuring that data protection processes are functioning properly and any anomalies are promptly addressed.
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Cost Optimization Insights: Integrate this plugin into a cost management tool to analyze the usage patterns of Cloud Storage. By collecting metrics on file sizes and access frequencies, teams can optimize their storage solutions and make informed decisions about data retention policies, potentially reducing unnecessary storage costs and improving resource allocation.
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Compliance and Auditing: Use the plugin to generate metrics that aid in compliance verification for data stored in Google Cloud Storage. By providing detailed insights into data access and storage usage, organizations can ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, helping in audits and aligning with best practices for data governance.
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Performance Benchmarking: Deploy the plugin to benchmark the performance of data retrieval and storage operations in Google Cloud Storage. By analyzing metrics over time, teams can identify performance bottlenecks or inefficiencies, allowing them to optimize their applications and infrastructure that depend on cloud storage services.
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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