OS and Application Monitoring

You can monitor application services in vRealize Operations. You can also manage the life cycle of agents and application services on end point VMs.

For example, as an administrator, you might need to ensure that the infrastructure provided for running the application services is sufficient and that there are no problems. If you receive a complaint that a particular application service is not working properly or is slow, you can troubleshoot by looking at the infrastructure on which the application is deployed. You can view important metrics related to the applications and share the information with the team managing the applications. You can use vRealize Operations to deploy the agents and send the related application data to vRealize Operations. You can view the data in vRealize Operations and share it with the team so that they can troubleshoot the application service.

Using vRealize Operations Advanced edition, you can monitor operating systems, conduct remote checks, and monitor Windows services and Linux processes in vRealize Operations. Using vRealize Operations Enterprise edition gives you additional capabilities to monitor operating systems and applications, and run custom scripts in vRealize Operations. Monitoring AWS and Azure instances through the Telegraf agent is not supported in any of the on-prem license editions.

Note: Upgrade to vRealize Operations 8.6.1 to use custom script monitoring in vRealize Operations Advanced edition. Custom script monitoring is supported in vRealize Operations 8.6.1 and later releases.

Note: Remote collectors are not supported by the Application Monitoring management pack.

Note: Collector groups do not support high availability in the Application Monitoring management pack.

Note: vRealize Application Remote Collector is not supported from vRealize Operations 8.10 and above. Migrate all Telegraf end points to cloud proxy before upgrading to vRealize Operations 8.10 and above. For information about migrating from vRealize Application Remote Collector to cloud proxy, see KB 83059.