New and changed integrations released in 2019-2020

VMware Aria Operations for Applications (formerly known as Tanzu Observability by Wavefront) continuously adds new integrations to the existing set, and improves available integrations.

This document lists new and changed integrations for 2019 and 2020.

October 2020 - December 2020

We added the following integrations in October 2020 - November 2020:

  • Concourse CI
  • OpenTelemetry

Made improvements to the following integrations in October 2020 - December 2020:

  • Spring Cloud Data Flow – New preconfigured dashboard to monitor Native Kafka client
  • Kubernetes – New setup UI
  • Slack – URL unfurler
  • Operations for Applications Usage new dashboards:
    • Operations for Applications Ingestion Policy Explorer In environments where ingestion policies have been configured, shows usage for each user and ingestion policy.
    • Committed Rate and Monthly Usage (PPS P95) dashboard shows Operations for Applications monthly usage against committed rate.
    • Operations for Applications Namespace Usage Explorer: Tracks the number of metrics received for the first 3 levels of your metric namespace.
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – Fixed dashboard queries in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) dashboard
  • Azure Storage – Preconfigured dashboard now supports monitoring of the Classic storage type

October 2019 - September 2020

Added the following integrations in October 2019 - September 2020:

  • Dynatrace
  • AppDynamics
  • Catchpoint
  • VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud
  • Spring Boot
  • Tanzu Mission Control
  • Spring Cloud Data Flow

Made improvements to the following integrations in October 2019 - October 2020:

  • Kubernetes integration now works with:
    • OpenShift Operator 3.x
    • OpenShift Operator 4.x
    • Rancher
    • Project Pacific (vSphere with Kubernetes)
  • AWS CloudWatch integration refresh – new API
  • Istio integration – new adapter
  • Zabbix integration
  • Logstash integration
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (formerly PKS) – Now includes an Alerts tab with predefined alerts
  • Kubernetes integration guided user experience:
    • Provides streamlined instructions based on where you install the Kubernetes Metrics Collector
    • Verifies you’ve configured the Kubernetes integration correctly during setup
    • Shows the list of your Kubernetes clusters and their statuses in the integrations setup page

    screenshot showing options to install in Tanzu, Kubernetes, or Openshift cluster

Made significant improvements to the dashboards of the following integrations:

  • Operations for Applications Tutorial dashboards (upgrade for V2 UI)
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry dashboards
  • Kubernetes dashboard
  • vSphere dashboards
  • Go SDK integration – now emits runtime metrics, captured in a dashboard
  • Python SDK integration – now emits runtime metrics, captured in a dashboard

The following authentication integrations have been revised to support self-service SAML SSO

  • VMware Workspace ONE Access
  • PingOne

Many integrations now include information about the metrics that we collect even when metrics are not flowing. The information is available from the integration’s Metrics tab and from the documentation that’s generated from the integration.

Here’s an example of what you see for the Amazon CloudFront integration:

screenshot with a table of metric name and description (statistics captured)

April 2019 - October 2019

We added the following integrations in April - July 2019:

  • Azure File Storage integration
  • New Relic integration
  • Azure Data Warehouse integration
  • Azure HD Insight integration

We made made improvements to the following integrations in January - March 2019:

  • Azure integrations: Improved dashboard filtering
  • AWS integrations: Improved dashboard filtering and charts
  • Prometheus integration: Enhanced documentation
  • Couch DB: Support for Couch DB v2.x
  • vSphere integration: Miscellaneous improvements
  • NGINX+ integration: Now using the new API module

January 2019 - March 2019

We added the following integrations in January - March 2019:

  • AWS IAM Key Age integration
  • Zipkin integration
  • OpenShift integration

We made made improvements to the following integrations in January - March 2019

  • Kubernetes integration: Added dashboard for monitoring Kubernetes Metrics Collector
  • Amazon RDS integration: Dashboard filtering improvements
  • Azure SQL Database integration: Dashboard improvements
  • vSphere integration: Dashboard improvements
  • Nagios integration: Enhancements to event collection