You can discover services and applications using the Service Discovery adapter.
Service Discovery
Service discovery helps you discover services running in each VM and then builds a relationship or dependency between the services from different VMs. You can view basic metrics based on the services you want to monitor. You can also use the service discovery dashboards to monitor the services.
Service discovery helps you determine the kind of services running on each VM in your environment. You can find out which VM is a part of a service, the impact of shutting down or moving a VM, the impact of an incident, and the right escalation path for a problem. You can also determine which VMs are used to migrate a service and which services are impacted by a planned outage on a VM or an infrastructure component.
Application Discovery
Applications can also be discovered on a VM with services connected to each other and those that talk to each other. You can discover predefined and custom applications. VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations are the predefined applications. You can view the VMs connected to their services, how the services talk to each other, and those that are connected to different VMs.
Licensing
You can discover and monitor services using VMware Aria Operations Advanced and Enterprise editions.
- Configure Service and Application Discovery. For more information, see Configure Service and Application Discovery.
- Manage Services and View Applications. For more information, see Manage Services and View Applications.
- Monitor services using dashboards. For more information, see Service Discovery Dashboards.
- View the services discovered. For more information, see Discovered Services.
