Oracle Cloud Logging and Analytics are recently launched set of OCI services. They are part of the Cloud Observability and Management platform to address the issues in unified view for observability and management solutions.
Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform
Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform addresses the need for a Unified platform that gives customer visibility and actionable insights. It also provides ease of use and administration across all layers of the cloud.
Additionally, the Observability and Management Platform supports technology stack deployed on other clouds as well as on-prem.
Note:
Not all services shown here are in GA release.
Currently only Logging, Logging Analytics and Service Connector Hub are Live.
OCI Logging
OCI logging is a newly launched cloud service to enable log capture, review log data, diagnose issues, and trigger alerts and publish notifications to subscribes.
OCI Logging is an centralized cloud platform for all types of infrastructure, database, application and Audit logs needed for hosting and security compliance.
Open-Source: Logging services uses the fluentd agent to capture all information in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) CloudEvents standard for log events. Additional benefit is that these logs can be exported and analyzed further in 3rd party tools.
Log Analytics
Log Analytics service aligns well with the Logging service. It aggregates, indexes, and analyzes all log data from OCI cloud, on-premises and multi-cloud environments. The service enables data aggregation, exploration, search, correlation and investigation to identify, troubleshoot and resolve problems.
Well aligned Logging service can also provide deep insight to Infrastructure setup, issues and problems and result in ideal operational environment.
Logging & Analytics use cases
- Deploy and manage agents across an entire fleet of applications and hosts directly from the console. Ingest and parse the logs using Fluentd.
- Ingest flow logs from Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs) and other OCI resources, such as Functions and API Gateway
- Secured access to sensitive log data. Access to sensitive logs to only specific users within log groups. Integrate with Identity and Access Management to define access policies and rules.
- Search and analyze all logs using a single Unified tool.
- Filter, aggregate, and visualize all logs—infrastructure, application, audit, and database.
- Use third-party observability tools, such as Splunk to analyze logs. To harvest current investment.
Notes
Service Connector Hub is a useful tool when the need arises to take the Logging and Analytics services ahead. When the need arises to push logs to 3rd party tools, SCH can export the flow logs to the destination.
For historical and Compliance reasons, Service Connector Hub can be used to push the log data to an OCI bucket.
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