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Monitoring AWS and Azure Services with Aria Operations

Jul 18, 2024

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There are quite a few blogs out there that describe how you can monitor native AWS and Azure with Aria Operations (Brock Peterson has a great blog that describes how: https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vrops-for-public-cloud).


Aria Operations is truly a multi-cloud tool! Yet another reason why it is the market leader for data center management.


But what services exactly does it monitor? A client of mine recently provided me with a list of common and not so common AWS and Azure Services that they wanted to monitor. Here is a list providing the answer as to what is supported and what isn't:


Cloud Provider

Service

Aria Support

Notes

Azure

API Management

Yes


Azure

App Insights

No


Azure

Authorization

No


Azure

Automation

Yes


Azure

Batch

Yes


Azure

Bot Service

Yes


Azure

Backup: VM

No


Azure

Backup: Storage

No


Azure

Content Delivery Network

Yes


Azure

Cognitive Services

Yes*

*Cognitive Service Account

Azure

Cognitive Search

Yes


Azure

Alerts(Communication Service)

No


Azure

Containers: Instance

Yes


Azure

Containers: Registry

Yes


Azure

Data Factory

Yes


Azure

Database: CosmosDB

Yes


Azure

Database: MariaDB

Yes


Azure

Database: PostgreSQL

Yes


Azure

DevTest Labs

No


Azure

HDInsights

Yes


Azure

Log Analytics

No


Azure

LogicApp

No


Azure

Monitor

No


Azure

Network: New vNet

More Clarity Needed

Does vNet imply Virtual Network, if so, Aria supports Azure Virtual Networks?

Azure

Network: New Network Securitygroup

More Clarity Needed

Is this a part of Azure Virtual Networks?

Azure

Network: Existing Netwrok Securitygroup

More Clarity Needed

Is this a part of Azure Virtual Networks?

Azure

Network: New Application Securitygroup

More Clarity Needed

Is this a part of Azure Virtual Networks?

Azure

Network: Existing Application Securitygroup

More Clarity Needed

Is this a part of Azure Virtual Networks?

Azure

Redis Service

More Clarity Needed

Aria supports Azure Cache for Redis

AWS

Amplify

No


AWS

App Flow

No


AWS

Application: Autoscaling

Yes


AWS

Athena

Yes


AWS

Backup

No


AWS

CloudFront

Yes


AWS

CloudFormation

Yes


AWS

Code: Build

No


AWS

Code: Pipeline

No


AWS

Code: Artifact

No


AWS

Code: Commit

No


AWS

Comprehend

No


AWS

Data Pipeline

No


AWS

Database Migration Service

No


AWS

Config

No


AWS

Cost Explorer

No


AWS

Application Migration Service

No


AWS

DevOps Guru

No


AWS

DynamoDB

Yes


AWS

EC2 Container Registry (ECR)*

Yes/No

If you meant Elastic Container Registry (ECR) then yes, otherwise no

AWS

Elastic Container Service

Yes


AWS

Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes

Yes


AWS

Elastic File System

Yes


AWS

Elastic Load Balancing

Yes


AWS

ElastiCache

Yes


AWS

FSx(Admin Activity) - Sync Onprem data

Yes/No

Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server are supported

AWS

Glue - Integration Service

Yes


AWS

GuardDuty(Admin Activity) - Threat Detection

No


AWS

Inspector(Admin Activity) - Vulnerability Scan

No


AWS

Global Accelerator

Yes


AWS

Kinesis

Yes

Data Analytics, Data Firehose, and Data Stream supported

AWS

Kinesis Analytics

Yes

Data Analytics, Data Firehose, and Data Stream supported

AWS

Lex

Yes*

*Objects have relationships only with regions

AWS

Keyspaces

Yes*

*Objects have relationships only with regions

AWS

Lightsail

No


AWS

Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Yes


AWS

Neptune

Yes


AWS

OpenSearch Service

Yes


AWS

SageMaker

Yes


AWS

Secrets Manager

No


AWS

Security Hub

No


AWS

Service Catalog

No


AWS

SES - Alerts

No


AWS

SimpleDB

No


AWS

SNS - Alerts*

Yes

Simple Notification Service (SNS) *Objects have relationships only with regions

AWS

SQS

Yes


AWS

Step Functions

Yes

*Objects have relationships only with regions

AWS

Storage Gateway

Yes

*Objects have relationships only with regions

AWS

Systems Manager

No


AWS

Transcribe

No


AWS

Network: New VPC

More clarity needed

Supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

AWS

Network: NAT Gateway

Yes


AWS

Network: New Security Group

No


For this exercise I referred to the following documentation:


AWS:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/SaaS/Configuring-Operations/GUID-36F34683-B9A9-44DB-90EA-2C2EFD263436.html

Azure:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/SaaS/Configuring-Operations/GUID-24AAEDF9-BD55-47B8-86D4-08FDA8DEF4D8.html


In order to collect metrics from these services, you need to add in your AWS and Azure accounts into Aria Operations, ensure that you generate the appropriate access keys, and configure the IAM permissions (for AWS). The procedure can be found in these documents and Brock Peterson's blog mentioned above:


Configuring AWS

Configuring Azure


Hope this helps!

Jul 18, 2024