Inventory
When the cloud contains hundreds or thousands of different objects deployed in dozens of different accounts/folders/projects, the issue of inventory and visibility of the cloud infrastructure becomes acute.
Insights
The Insights module stores data about all cloud resources and Managed Kubernetes resources in a single database and provides a flexible query language to retrieve information that facilitates cloud monitoring and management. For example:
- All load balancers
- Containers in all clusters deployed from a PostgreSQL image
- List of databases and the account in which they reside
- List of VMs bound to a specific security group
- All VMs and containers on which the “nginx” package is installed
- VMs deployed from unauthorized images
- Privileged permissions granted to users who are not on the list of known administrators
Over 90 pre-defined queries are already included in the Insights module.
Custom queries
Cloud Advisor provides the ability to create your own queries in GraphQL. Cloud Advisor engineers have added additional extensions and operators to GraphQL for more accurate and flexible query construction. This powerful tool allows you to build a query to a graph database of resources of almost any complexity, for example: All virtual machines in the prod folder that have the tag owner = "joe" and linked to a service account with the admin or editor role". Moreover, you can specify in the query text what data you want to get in the response for each of these virtual machines. You can create your own queries in the Cloud Advisor web console or send them via the API available to users.
Inventory at all levels
Cloud Advisor provides information about objects operating at all layers of the cloud infrastructure:
CMDB integration
Cloud infrastructure is often a blind spot for enterprise CMDB (Configuration Management Database) systems. Cloud Advisor provides a powerful API to get detailed information about objects operating at all layers of the cloud infrastructure. This allows you to provide cloud resource data to CMDB systems, eliminating blind spots and giving IT visibility at the public cloud level.