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Ingestion services make it possible for APEX AIOps Incident Management to ingest data from a variety of monitoring tools. This process centralizes your data and lets you use the features available in Incident Management to add value to the data you're already collecting.

The Ingestion Services UI page categorizes your ingested data types under the heading Event Types. Depending on the integration, the type of ingested data includes Events, Metrics or both.

In addition to inbound integrations, Incident Management also includes outbound integrations.

Ingest data with inbound integrations

Incident Management provides several inbound integrations (ingestion methods) to facilitate data ingestion. In most cases, these integrations take just a few minutes to configure.

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Notes

Available integrations vary in their complexity and include:

  • Collectors - The Incident Management Collector lets you ingest data into your instance and chart multiple metrics using a variety of plugins. The type of data displayed depends on operating system, configured plugins, and other parameters.

  • Integrations - These pre-configured integrations require minimal user input and are quick to configure using the forms available in the Incident Management UI. The features for each supported integration vary. Amazon CloudWatch is an example of a pre-configured integration.

  • Create Your Own Integration - You can use the Create Your Own Integration (CYOI) feature to set up a custom API endpoint (API webhook) in Incident Management to listen for communications from a webhook in your source monitoring tool. Your integration and data are clearly identified by a name of your choosing within Incident Management. Custom mapping your payload fields allows translation of source data to Incident Management.

  • API Integrations - As an alternative to using the UI to set up your integrations, you have the option of setting up integrations with Incident Management APIs. See Get started with APEX AIOps Incident Management APIs.

Step-by-step instructions for configuring integrations with several popular monitoring tools are available. Integration with many other tools is possible using a webhook in your monitoring tool, custom mappings, and your custom CYOI endpoint

Monitoring Ingested Data

After you have set up your integrations using Ingestion Services and are ingesting data, you can:

  • View metrics in a graphical interface with duplicated, repeated, and obsolete events removed from the data stream, so you can more easily identify important or unique events.

  • Detect anomalies using configurable metrics parameters.

  • Enrich metrics with workflows to make them more meaningful. For example, you can indicate applications which cause certain events or group together related events.

  • Cluster related alerts into incidents which you can then assign to other users, and set statuses.

  • Use the correlation engine algorithms to build custom rules that cluster certain related alerts into incidents.