Introduction

Events refers to any significant changes within your IT infrastructure including servers, network devices, and applications. Based on predefined rules, these events are transformed into alerts. This conversion from events to alerts allows the IT teams to be notified of potential issues or anomalies in real-time, who can conduct root cause analysis to ensure continued health and performance of your IT environment.

Examples of events include:

  • Hardware failure, such as a disk failure.
  • Server CPU utilization that is near maximum, such as at 90%.
  • Application failure, when a database process stops.
  • Configuration change on a switch, such as a change in duplex setting.

OpsRamp ingests events occurring in your environment from these sources:

  • Native instrumentation: OpsRamp’s native instrumentation triggers events as it monitors your resources.
    Example: High memory utilization of a server.
  • Self-diagnostic events from managed resources: OpsRamp listens for events generated from IT resources from their own self-diagnostics.
    Example: SNMP traps in network devices.
  • Third-party products: OpsRamp integrates with third-party products to ingest events that they generate from the monitoring that they do.
    Example: Alerts from a log monitoring tool.

OpsRamp supports Event Monitoring for the following resources:

The documents in this section cover the following topics: