“Resource” shall mean any physical asset (such as servers, network switches, and routers) or virtual asset (such as virtual machines, cloud instances, storage buckets, and databases) that has been assigned a resource identification on the Subscription Service.
E.g. AWS ELB, CloudFront, Route 53, GCP, BigQuery, Dataproc, Azure SQL Server, DocumentDB etc.
Container Resources
Resource Type
Example
Container Instance
Docker Container on AWS EC2 instance, Docker Container on Physical Server
Uptime Resources (URLs and Web Services)
Resource Type
Example
Synthetics, URLs, and Web Services
http://www.mycompany.com
Ping Devices
Up Down devices
Events-Only Resources
Resource Type
Example
Externally Managed Devices
Server, Unified Communications Server (VoIP)
Events-Only Resource is any type of IT resource that a customer is “managing by proxy” in OpsRamp, in that: – The resource is on-boarded into OpsRamp as an asset. – The resource is monitored by a 3rd party tool and is not monitored by OpsRamp native instrumentation (viz. Agent, Gateway and or Cloud based monitors). – The 3rd party tool sends alerts into OpsRamp. – OpsRamp manages the lifecycle of these alerts, performing alert correlation, escalation and incident management.
Inventory-Only Resources
Example
Externally Managed Devices
Network Devices, Servers
Inventory-Only Resource is any type of IT resource for which the customer is using OpsRamp to strictly to discover and track the resource, in that: – The resource is on-boarded into OpsRamp as an asset using OpsRamp’s discovery. – The resource’s attributes are tracked by OpsRamp and displayed in the UI, made available reports and APIs. – The resource is not being monitored for metrics or events, directly by OpsRamp or via a 3rd party tool.
Automation-Only Resources
Resource Type
Example
Externally Managed Devices
Network Devices, Servers
Automation-Only Resource is any type of IT resource against which the customer executes automation tasks using OpsRamp – for example – run a script to remediate alerts or execute routine maintenance tasks. The resource is: – The resource is on-boarded into OpsRamp as an asset using OpsRamp’s discovery. – The resource’s attributes are tracked by OpsRamp and displayed in the UI, made available reports and APIs.
Dynamic Resource Metering
OpsRamp meters cloud and container resource usage on an hourly basis and calculates an average hourly resource count for each month.
In the example below, the hourly resource count varies between 100 and 1100 resources, with the average being 200 resources per hour over the month.
