Overview
Use OneIQ Pulse for AWS to connect each AWS region to your IT environment in OneIQ. The connector is deployed using an AWS CloudFormation stack, which provisions an EC2 instance, a small EBS volume, a security group, and the required IAM role and instance profile with read-only permissions.
Once active, Pulse collects configuration, performance, and billing data from supported AWS services (EC2, EBS, and RDS) and securely sends it to the OneIQ Portal. With this data you can:
Optimize AWS spend by right-sizing EC2 instances with OneIQ Insights.
Understand dependencies among AWS and other workloads across Hybrid IT.
Identify cost-saving opportunities to repatriate workloads from AWS to the datacenter.
The connector can monitor a single AWS region or multiple regions by setting the TargetRegions parameter during deployment.
Supported services
OneIQ Pulse supports capturing billing, configuration and performance metrics for:
Download OneIQ Pulse for AWS
Log in to the OneIQ Portal.
Select IT Environments in the left navigation menu and go to the Connectors tab.
Select Amazon Web Services as the platform to connect.
In Connect your AWS cloud, specify a name for the OneIQ Pulse for AWS connector to distinguish it from other connectors in your IT environment (for example, the AWS region name).
Click Download to save the OneIQ Pulse CloudFormation manifest.
Deploy OneIQ Pulse into AWS
Log in to the AWS CloudFormation console..
Create a new CloudFormation stack (you can also use the AWS CLI).
Select Create stack with new resources (standard).
When prompted, use the downloaded OneIQ Pulse CloudFormation manifest as the stack template.
Profiling multiple AWS regions
To profile multiple target regions, enter a space-delimited list of AWS regions in the TargetRegions field.
For example:
us-west-2 us-east-2
Enable AWS Cost and Usage report
OneIQ can correlate application and infrastructure costs using billing data from AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CURs). See Collecting Billing Data from Amazon Web Services for instructions on enabling CURs.
Enable Network Flows in AWS
OneIQ Pulse for AWS can capture flow logs from Amazon VPCs, VPC subnets, or Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs). To enable this, follow the AWS documentation for VPC Flow Logs – Log and View Network Traffic Flows.