The ability to rightsize VMs has long been one of the most widely used features in Aria Operations. Automation Central gave us even more...

In light of a recent announcement from Microsoft indicating they will deprecate Office 365 Connectors for Workflows, I wanted to update...

When looking at your vSphere Clusters, you will often times want to know how many VMs are facing resource issues. You can do this...

For whatever reason, you want to stop collecting data against objects, or you'd like to disable Alerts against those objects, what do you...

Aria Operations 8.17.2 dropped earlier this week, Release Notes can be found here. It's a maintenance release, addressing functionality...

Aria Operations for Logs 8.16.1 dropped today, here are no new features in this release, but dozens of CVEs are addressed . The formal Release Notes can be found here . Let's upgrade! As indicated in the KB above, here are the Prerequisites Create a snapshot or backup copy of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs virtual appliance(s) Obtain a copy of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs upgrade bundle .pak file for the release you are upgrading to Verify that you are logged in

Aria Operations 8.17.1 HF2 dropped a couple weeks ago, KB can be found here. Let's download and apply it! As indicated in the KB, you...

Aria Automation has a robust service catalog called Service Broker, which allows administrators to publish offerings and for consumers to...

We've discussed the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) previously, along with all its benefits: upgrades, binary downloads, content management, and more. But did you know, you can have multiple Environments in ASLCM? That's right, you can, let's explore! I've had a single Environment in ASLCM for years, one that contains Aria Operations, Logs, and Automation. I'd like to create another environment of the same products, just at different versions, here's how to do it. Log

If you've been using Aria Operations for a while (version 8.10), you've likely noticed a metric called Performance KPI %, defined on ESXi...

We've discussed Costing (and Pricing) in Aria Operations several times before, but never how to add Application Costs. we'll explore that here. If you go into Configure - Cost Drivers - Cost Drivers, you'll see several cost drivers we can customize. The first place to go is Applications and click ADD. The Application Name dropdown is being pulled from the list of Business Applications defined in Environment - Business Applications. This is where we can define our Business

We previously discussed Aria Operations High Availability (HA) and Continuous Availability (CA), this blog will detail how to enable HA...

Aria Automation 8.17 dropped today, let's upgrade! I'm running Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) 8.16.0.4 Product Support Pack (PSP)...

Want to send MongoDB logs to Aria Operations for logs? We can do it! In fact, we have a Content Pack for you. Go to Content Packs - ...

Aria Operations for Logs is up and running and capturing all of your vCenter events, task, and alarms, your ESXi Host logs, and other...

If you've used the Aria Operations Troubleshooting Workbench you know there is a column for Anomalous Metrics. Hovering over the...

Aria Operations 8.17.1 HF1 dropped yesterday, it addresses several issues: Property last value timestamp is incorrect in the property...

To this point, we've discussed how to get Aria Operations Alerts to ServiceNow as Incidents and Events. This will blog will show you how to skip Incidents and Events and open Alerts directly in ServiceNow. Like Events, opening Alerts in ServiceNow requires the Management Pack for ServiceNow. This blog will feature version 9.0 of the management pack running on Operations 8.17.1 with ServiceNow Vancouver. Opening ServiceNow Alerts also requires the ServiceNow ITOM module. O

We first discussed converting Aria Operations Alerts to ServiceNow Incidents via the ServiceNow Plugin. We then showed how to populate the Configuration Item (CI) field on Incidents via Operations Webhooks. There is another ServiceNow construct called an Event, which allows you to call Event Rules, open subsequent ServiceNow Alerts, and more. Nice piece here explaining the difference between ServiceNow Incidents, Events, and Alerts. As discussed in previous blogs, we c

Want VM price estimates at build time in Aria Automation, here's how you do it! Once Aria Automation has been deployed you'll first want...

In our previous blog we explored how to send Aria Operations Alerts to ServiceNow as Incidents, but we weren't able to populate the...

We introduced the ServiceNow Notification Plugin back in Aria Operations 7.5 and have discussed it (and other ServiceNow related items)...

We've been pulling vCenter Events into Aria Operations for years, but I've never been able to determine exactly which ones, I finally...