HPE OpsRamp Continues to Push Autonomous IT Operations Forward

To empower and support ITOps and DevOps teams managing complex, hybrid IT environments, we have enhanced our observability, AI-powered operations copilot, and analytics, and automation capabilities - and we have made it easier for IT teams to deploy these capabilities with multiple HPE packages. Collectively, these enhancements to the HPE OpsRamp continue to get us closer to the vision of autonomous IT operations.

Let's take a look at what’s new in OpsRamp

Observability for Disconnected and Sovereign Clouds:
Modern enterprises are rapidly embracing sovereign and disconnected clouds to meet regulatory requirements and ensure data sovereignty. To meet our customers’ needs, OpsRamp now offers full-stack observability for both disconnected, and sovereign, cloud environments as part of HPE Private Cloud Enterprise Disconnected and Sovereign bundles– ensuring full visibility even in the most private and regulated environments.

Using OpsRamp’s monitoring and observability capabilities, IT teams supporting disconnected and sovereign clouds can monitor the health and performance of various IT resources in those environments, detect anomalies, and prevent any incidents from escalating into service-affecting outages.
AI infrastructure to Workload Observability:
Earlier this year we announced a number of key integrations across NVIDIA infrastructure and HPE Ezmeral data fabric. This includes the ability to monitor AI infrastructure and related data center and network components, granular GPU monitoring, detailed metrics for AI workloads, an integration with CrowdStrike and more.

Today, with OpsRamp being available as part of HPE Private Cloud AI – the first co-engineered, turnkey solution to come from NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE - all of these key integrations are available to all HPE Private Cloud AI users. This helps IT operations team monitoring and managing HPE Private Cloud AI instances to maximize performance, health, and availability.
Cloud-native Observability:
Enhanced Support for Kubernetes Deployments
To support the continued rise of containerized workloads and Kubernetes across enterprises’ hybrid IT environments, OpsRamp has enhanced the existing Kubernetes integration on two fronts:
- Better Insights into Kubernetes Clusters: The new Kubernetes integration provides deep insights into Kubernetes clusters by offering detailed visibility into various components, such as node health, pod status, namespaces, persistent volumes (PVs), persistent volume claims (PVCs), DaemonSets, and container resource usage. This integration enhances resource discovery and monitoring, enabling IT teams to proactively address cluster health and performance issues. Additionally, a revamped topology explorer simplifies the visualization of relationships among Kubernetes resources, aiding IT teams in faster, and more effective troubleshooting.
- More Metrics, Flexible Dashboards: With the expanded integration, OpsRamp now supports a wide range of new metrics from critical Kubernetes components such as Kube API Servers, Kube Schedulers, Kube Controllers, Kubelet, and clusters, giving teams granular insights into all facets of their deployments. OpsRamp also now collects Kubernetes metrics via the Open Telemetry framework (in addition to the OpsRamp agent), adding flexibility to data collection. Finally, IT teams benefit from both pre-configured, out-of-the-box dashboards as well as the ability to customize those dashboards, to ensure that the right information is easily surfaced to the right individuals for rapid troubleshooting.
Enhanced Public Cloud Observability
More Comprehensive Azure Visibility: To help IT operations teams supporting multi-cloud environments – that commonly include Azure – gain deeper visibility into the health, availability, and performance of their Azure environments, OpsRamp has significantly expanded Azure metric support.

OpsRamp can now collect granular metric data from several new Azure resources, including CDN profiles, container registries, MySQL flexible servers, PostgreSQL servers, application gateways, Azure Firewalls, ExpressRoute circuits, load balancers, virtual hubs, and SQL databases.

OpsRamp users can also gain better visibility into their Azure cloud costs (as well as costs for AWS and GCP) and get alerted when their cloud spend exceeds preset thresholds using enhanced budget policies.

Finally, the Azure integration now supports Azure Backup Protected Items Discovery and Monitoring - which now helps IT operations teams gain more oversight of their Azure backup resources.
Copilot for IT Operations:
Earlier this year, at HPE Discover 2024, OpsRamp announced it’s new operations copilot to augment the bandwidth of IT operations teams supporting complex, hybrid IT environments.

Available to customers now, the OpsRamp operations copilot helps teams leverage natural language queries to surface actionable insights, generate dynamic dashboards, and provides tailored recommendations - helping teams handle more alerts, more incidents, and manage more IT resources than ever before.

Today, IT operations teams can use it to:
- Ask questions in natural language such as:“show me all the resources with critical alerts.” In response, the copilot can sift through all the alerts in real-time, identify the critical ones, and show the user the affected resources. The copilot also provides the full context associated with an incident so users can rapidly triage and troubleshoot problems.
- View dynamic dashboards generated on-the-fly by the operations copilot. For example, a user can ask the copilot to show it all the managed network resources grouped by location - and the copilot creates a map that is dynamically generated with the requested information.
Under constant and rapid development, we expect the copilot to see a steady stream of enhancements and upgrades over the next few months.
Network Observability with Full-Stack Insights:
Ensuring end-to-end network health is essential for any enterprise. Earlier this year, at HPE Discover 2024, OpsRamp announced a new network observability solution that included network observability, synthetic monitoring, network topology mapping, network configuration management, and network manager of manager capabilities - covering both public cloud vendors as well as all the major networking vendors such as Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Dell EMC, F5, HPE, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, and others.

Since then, OpsRamp has been continually updating and enhancing the network observability solution. Some of the updates include:
- Real-time Topology Mapping: IT and network teams can toggle between L2 and L3 topologies more easily, achieve better visibility and control over alert data using new alert filters on topology maps, and they can gain in-depth insights into the relationships between source and target resources using topology details.
- Network Performance Monitoring and Management: OpsRamp's Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) capabilities have been enhanced to provide comprehensive insights into network health and usage. The NPM collector now comes with pre-configured default metrics, simplifying the setup process and ensuring consistent monitoring across network devices.
  
  The NPM collector provides extensive coverage of network flow records with added support for SFlow, NetFlow v5, NetFlow v9, and IPFIX protocols. NPMs dashboard has been upgraded to display critical information such as Top Applications, Top Conversations, Top Protocols, and more, to make it easy for IT and network teams to quickly home in on a particular problem or trend.
  
  Finally, OpsRamp now supports the configuration of custom alert criteria using OpsQL queries. This enables the creation of tailored dashboards and alert setups, enhancing the ability to monitor and respond to specific network performance indicators.

How to Acquire and Deploy HPE OpsRamp

To make it easy for enterprises to take advantage of OpsRamp’s observability, analytics, and automation capabilities, in addition to buying OpsRamp standalone, you can also acquire OpsRamp as part of three different bundles.

HPE Complete Care Services: HPE Complete Care now includes OpsRamp’s discovery and observability dashboards. For customers with complex, hybrid IT environments, this combines the benefits of environment-wide support with a single pane of glass dashboards for centralized monitoring and observability – along with a dedicated account team.

HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions: Every HPE GreenLake Flex Solution now includes OpsRamp. This means that all GreenLake Flex customers can take advantage of OpsRamp’s AI-powered hybrid observability, analytics, and automation capabilities to optimize uptime and infrastructure operating costs - while improving process efficiencies and meeting the ever-evolving needs of their digital business.