After you implement the Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution, monitor the components that are newly added or reconfigured in your VMware Cloud Foundation environment.

For validated monitoring solutions, see VMware Cloud Foundation Validated Solutions.

If vRealize Operations Manager is integrated into your VMware Cloud Foundation environment, you can connect vRealize Operations Manager to vRealize Log Insight by using the native integration in vRealize Log Insight to provide event forwarding and launch in context in vRealize Operations Manager.

With the integration between vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations Manager you can implement the following integration points.

Table 1. vRealize Log Insight Integration Points

Integration Point

Description

Notification events

Forward notification events from vRealize Log Insight to vRealize Operations Manager.

Launch in context

Launch vRealize Log Insight from the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.

Embedded vRealize Log Insight

Access the integrated vRealize Log Insight user interface directly in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
Table 2. Design Decisions on Integration of vRealize Log Insight with vRealize Operations Manager

Decision ID

Design Decision

Design Justification

Design Implication

ILA-VRLI-MON-001

Forward alerts to vRealize Operations Manager.

Provides monitoring and alerting information that is pushed from vRealize Log Insight to vRealize Operations Manager for centralized administration.

None.

ILA-VRLI-MON-002

Support launch in context with vRealize Operations Manager.

Provides access to vRealize Log Insight for context-based monitoring of an object in vRealize Operations Manager.

You can register only one vRealize Log Insight cluster with vRealize Operations Manager for launch in context at a time.

ILA-VRLI-MON-003

Configure the vRealize Log Insight integration in vRealize Operations Manager.

  • Activates the Logs tab invRealize Operations Manager.

  • Activates Troubleshoot with the Logs dashboard.

  • Activates vRealize Log Insight launch in context from vRealize Operations Manager.

You can register only one vRealize Log Insight cluster with vRealize Operations Manager at a time.

You must manage the password life cycle of this endpoint.

ILA-VRLI-MON-004

Configure the vRealize Log Insight adapter to use the remote collector group.

  • Local-instance components are configured to use the remote collector group.

  • Offloads data collection for local management components from the analytics cluster.

None.

ILA-VRLI-MON-005

Add a Ping adapter for the vRealize Log Insight cluster.

Provides metrics on the availability of the vRealize Log Insight cluster.

You must add the adapter instances manually.

ILA-VRLI-MON-006

Configure the Ping adapter to use the remote collector group.

  • Local-instance components are configured to use the remote collector group.

  • Offloads data collection for local management components from the analytics cluster.

None.

For information on activating sending vRealize Log Insight alerts to vRealize Operations Manager, see Create Alerts in vRealize Log Insight for Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation.

Prerequisites

Verify that vRealize Operations Manager is deployed and operational in a logical environment in VMware Cloud Foundation mode using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.