Introduction to Opsview Observability

What is Opsview Observability? Copied

Opsview Observability is an integration layer that connects Opsview’s comprehensive infrastructure monitoring capabilities with ITRS Analytics Platform, enabling organizations to combine real-time monitoring with advanced analytics, forecasting, and capacity planning in a unified observability solution.

Opsview Observability extends the capabilities of Opsview Monitor by seamlessly forwarding monitoring data to ITRS Analytics. This integration enables organizations to:

Centralize observability data — consolidate metrics, logs, and events from Opsview-monitored infrastructure into ITRS Analytics for comprehensive analysis. Enable advanced analytics — use ITRS Analytics’s analytical capabilities including forecasting, dynamic thresholds, and capacity planning. Maintain existing workflows — continue using Opsview for day-to-day monitoring while accessing enhanced insights through ITRS Analytics. Scale observability — support hybrid environments with distributed monitoring across on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

Why use it? Copied

Opsview Observability is useful when you want to:

• extend Opsview data into ITRS Analytics without replacing Opsview Monitor
• analyze Opsview metrics and state alongside telemetry from other sources in ITRS Analytics
• retain monitoring context while gaining longer-term analysis, dashboards, alerting, and capacity-oriented workflows

How it fits together Copied

The high-level flow is: Opsview Monitor > Opsview Observability > ITRS Analytics (IAX)

At a conceptual level:

• Opsview Monitor produces the monitoring results and metadata.
• Opsview Observability decides what to export and moves that data out of Opsview.
• ITRS Analytics ingests, stores, and presents that data for investigation and analysis.

Main components Copied

Opsview Observability is made up of three main components:

1. Opsview Orchestrator

   • Manages the collection plans that define what monitoring data should be exported.
   • Generates encrypted collection plans containing host, service, and metadata configuration.
   • Coordinates data flow between Opsview and the system collectors.

2. Opsview Orchestrator

   • Runs as the System Collector.
   • Reads collection plans and monitoring results from Opsview.
   • Forwards the processed data to the ITRS Analytics ingestion API.

3. System Server

   • Acts as the registration service for collectors.
   • Provides the connection settings and credentials they need to send data securely.

What you can do after setup Copied

After setup, you can use exported Opsview data in ITRS Analytics to:

• investigate monitored entities and services with more context
• build dashboards and views based on Opsview-derived telemetry
• correlate Opsview data with other telemetry sources already in ITRS Analytics
• support alerting, reporting, and capacity analysis workflows

Integration with ITRS Analytics Copied

Opsview Observability integrates with multiple ITRS Analytics apps:

• Entity Viewer — real-time monitoring and investigation of entities exported from Opsview.
• Dashboards — custom visualization of Opsview metrics within ITRS Analytics.
• Alerting — advanced signal aggregation and alert rationalization for Opsview-generated alerts.
• Capacity Planner — resource utilization tracking and capacity forecasting based on Opsview monitoring data.
• Dynamic Thresholds — machine learning-based anomaly detection on Opsview metrics.
• Forecaster — predictive analytics for capacity planning and trend analysis.

How Opsview Observability relates to ITRS Analytics Copied

Opsview Observability does not replace Opsview Monitor. Opsview continues to perform monitoring and produce the source data. Opsview Observability bridges that data into ITRS Analytics, and ITRS Analytics provides the platform capabilities that sit on top of the ingested data.

ITRS Analytics serves as the analytical and storage layer for Opsview Observability.

Opsview provides:

• Infrastructure and service monitoring across 4,500+ plugins.
• Business Service Monitoring (BSM) for service health aggregation.
• Real-time alerting and notification management.
• Auto-discovery and configuration management.
• Network topology mapping and analysis.

ITRS Analytics adds:

• Long-term metric storage and historical analysis.
• Predictive forecasting and capacity planning.
• AI-powered dynamic threshold adjustment.
• Cross-system correlation and analytics.
• Advanced visualization and dashboards.
• Alert aggregation and noise reduction.

Next step Copied

Continue to the getting-started documentation when you are ready to plan your first setup path and validate that Opsview data is reaching ITRS Analytics.