Partner Integrations

1. Partner Integrations

Google Cloud Observability also supports a rich and growing ecosystem of technology partners, as shown on this slide. This helps expand the IT ops, security, and compliance capabilities available to Google Cloud customers. The diagram shows the architecture of how BindPlane ingests logs and then how those logs are ingested into Cloud Logging plus collects metrics and then how these metrics are ingested into Cloud Monitoring. Adding Blue Medora's software, BindPlane, helps collect the metrics and logs and push them into the open APIs that form our core observability platform. Once a log source is ingested into Cloud Logging, you can view and search through the raw log data and create metrics off of those log files just like logs collected from Google Cloud. You can use all the features of Google Cloud Observability, including viewing logs in real time in the Google Cloud console or through log-based metrics to view logs and metrics side-by-side and alert on logs. This diagram depicts the architecture involved in filtering and exporting log data from Cloud Logging to Splunk Enterprise. Pub/Sub is used to temporarily store logged messages as they are published from Cloud Logging, before delivering them to Splunk. Cloud Logging begins by gathering logs into a centralized location, then forwards them to Google Cloud's Pub/Sub messaging service. Pub/Sub manages the log data using a dedicated channel. A primary Dataflow pipeline extracts logs from Pub/Sub and delivers them to Splunk for analysis. To safeguard against errors, a secondary Dataflow pipeline runs in parallel, capable of resending logs if delivery fails. Finally, Splunk (deployed on-premises, in Google Cloud as SaaS, or via a hybrid approach) receives the logs and enables in-depth analysis. The workflow uses a streaming pipeline to natively push your Google Cloud data to your Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise instance using the Pub/Sub to Splunk Dataflow template. Using this Dataflow template, you can export data from Pub/Sub to Splunk. So, any message that can be delivered to a Pub/Sub topic can now be forwarded to Splunk. For more information about integrations, refer to the link in the Course Resources.

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