fdmon cloud is a powerful “analytics and automation as a service” platform.
fdmon cloud is specifically designed for monitoring, diagnostics, trending, event, incident, capacity and configuration management, prediction, testing and experimentation, and more generally for IT data and metrics driven activities.
fdmon cloud relies on the fdmon solution (Fast Deployment Monitoring) designed to address Business Critical needs (24/7 infrastructures and services automation and monitoring without interruption).
fdmon cloud, hosted on our fdmon worldwide multi-cloud infrastructure, provides an availability of 100% from end to end, including fdmon Proxy Servers in charge of collecting information and metrics of managed components.
Onboarding your data-centers or cloud infrastructures in fdmon cloud requires a few minutes only.
Then, configuring and activating the monitoring and automation of your infrastructure or application components is immediate and managed from the fdmon cloud centralized user interface.
fdmon cloud is 100% agentless, whatever the monitored technology.
Scalability
Scalability of your fdmon cloud platform is infinite.
The extreme modularity of fdmon enables to build large monitoring platforms capable to manage, from a unique interface, an infinite number of data-centers and infrastructure components or applications.
Evolutivity
Evolutivity of fdmon cloud is infinite.
fdmon cloud can monitor everything and will be able to monitor everything in the future whatever the technology, thanks to fdmon Analytics Studio.
The user can implement by himself new technologies. Furthermore, fdmon cloud is IOT ready and provides MQTT brokers as well as MQTT collectors.
Traffic Securing and Optimization
Traffic between your data-centers and fdmon cloud is secured, deduplicated and compressed. Bandwidth required between your data-centers and fdmon cloud is absolutely negligible (1 MB/s for 20’000 monitored servers/equipments and 50’000’000 metrics updated every minute).
Example :
The deduplication rate of data collected from a VMware ESXi server and sent to fdmon cloud can be as high as 400:1Enabling the connectivity between your data centers and fdmon cloud consists only in allowing HTTPS traffic from your fdmon Proxies to fixed IP addresses of fdmon cloud.
By design, fdmon cloud doesn’t generate any incoming traffic, even during optional interactions with IT infrastructure components from the fdmon cloud user interface.
Thanks to the cascading of internal (Proxy) and external (Cloud) fdmon REST API, an ingestion pipeline of specific data and metrics to analyze, can start securely from the equipment that generates these data and metrics.
Full Customization
The fdmon cloud environment is fully customizable (including Analytics code and charts aspect) enabling creation of high level and business oriented dashboards (executive) as well as deep monitoring technical dashboards (for operational, research or support teams).
Triggers to interact with IT components (from simple operations or complex workflows) can be configured on dashboards directly.
fdmon cloud is not only a monitoring solution. fdmon cloud is a framework for building a complete analytics and automation platform for your IT organization.
Ergonomics
The fdmon cloud user interface is ultra-optimized and ultra-ergonomic (0% Java, 0% Flash, no plugin, no cookie, 100 % HTML/JavaScript).
Ergonomics and speed of the user interface were the first elements of the initial specifications of fdmon.
We continuously monitor user experience and dashboards performance metrics which can be examined directly by the end user from each dashboard (widget sizes and creation times).
Augmented Inventory
The Augmented Inventory is a structured version of all metrics and attributes associated with objects and CI managed by fdmon.
The Augmented Inventory can contain up to several billion attributes.
A query in the fdmon Augmented Inventory can target the current value, predicted value, statistics or cardinality of any object attribute for a CI, a group of CI, a site or your overall IT ecosystem.
Examples :
- What is the most active disk device or process (and the related server) in terms of IO size (sequential IOs) ?
- What is the sum of the free space of all files systems ?
- What are all versions of python installed in your IT ecosystem ?
- What are the packages or KB installed in less than 10% of the Windows servers ?
- What are all servers listening on 1521 TCP port ?
- What are all values of a given Oracle parameter, for all Oracle instances in production ?
- What is the highest uptime ?
- Etc ...
Automation & Orchestration
Any IT Administrator with the required privileges can interact securely with any monitored component from the fdmon cloud user interface thanks to a set of “primitives” defined for each monitored technology on Proxy Servers.
Examples :
- Obtaining logs of a specific backup session or restarting a backup.
- Provisioning a new virtual server or workload.
- Stopping, starting or deleting a workload or a container.
- Provisioning, extending or deleting a storage volume.
- Installing a package.
- Updating all packages to their latest version.
- Applying a patch.
- Running Ansible Playbooks.
- Etc ...All interactions are defined beforehands, controlled and traced. After setting access control policies, managing your IT infrastructures from fdmon cloud does not require giving credentials to IT administrators.
fdmon cloud makes your IT administration more secure, and provides a full traceability of all interactions.
Automated interactions allow fdmon cloud to fix problems automatically and implement autonomous data-centers.
Complex workflows (primitives chaining with dependencies) can be scheduled, triggered by user or automatically triggered by events.
User interactions widgets can be placed anywhere on any dashboard, their visibilty depending on user rights and permissions.
An usual application of these feature consists in implementing your own cloud management platform whatever the technology behind (with multiple cloud providers), to unify monitoring and IT administration on the same user interface.
fdmon cloud can trigger your own Ansible Playbooks or AWX workflows, automatically or from the fdmon cloud user interface.
Federated Analytics Platform
Thanks to the External Monitoring Collectors, you can consolidate on your fdmon cloud monitoring portal, your different legacy or on-premise monitoring platforms built from VMware vRrealize Operations (vROPs), Splunk, Nagios, Centreon, Zabbix, XY-Mon, etc … in a few minutes.
These specific collectors, that run on your fdmon Proxy Servers, act as gateways between most popular monitoring solutions of the market and fdmon cloud.
You retrieve all monitored resources on the fdmon cloud repository and can organize them like any other resource monitored directly by fdmon cloud.
Flexibility
Partners or customers can get a dedicated fdmon cloud platform (on a their private cloud or on-premises), according to their geographic or legal constraints, with the same guarantees, in terms of availability, as our worldwide public platform.