Red Hat Announces Ansible Tower App for Splunk, Enabling Intelligence and Automation Enhancements
September 26 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Users can now build reports and analyze Ansible
Tower automation data for compliance and auditing with Splunk
Solutions
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the availability of the Ansible
Tower App for Splunk, an application that integrates Ansible Tower
by Red Hat with Splunk® Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. The
application brings the power and variety of Splunk analytics
queries to Ansible Tower automation, and enables Ansible Tower and
Splunk customers to view rich Ansible automation data in Splunk
solutions where it can be correlated with other data sources
throughout the application delivery lifecycle, providing new levels
of operational intelligence.
The Ansible Tower App for Splunk enables customers to more
deeply analyze the data generated by Ansible Tower automations and
generate customized reports. These reports can then be shared
between teams to facilitate operational decisions and activities.
Ansible Tower data stream now available in the Splunk platform
includes:
- Ansible Tower system tracking
data imports Ansible system facts into the Splunk platform,
including details about services, packages and even hardware data.
This data offers administrators the necessary tools to audit and
verify that machines are in compliance, see how machine
configurations have drifted over time, and compare system
configuration across machines.
- Ansible Tower activity streams
pulls the full output of Ansible Tower job status including job
details, activity streams, and Ansible run logs. This data helps
administrators understand the efficiency of their automated
processes.
- Ansible Tower administrative event
data indicates which user made what changes and when they were
made. This enables organizations to have a detailed audit trail for
compliance and remediation.
Supporting Quotes
Stacy Regan, director, IT Service Transition and Operation,
Surescripts
“At Surescripts, Ansible Tower helps us automate our
infrastructure from the network all the way to the individual
applications on servers. Ansible Tower’s integration with the
Splunk platform will enable us to report and analyze our
operational audit data, providing vital systems state and
performance statistics."
Tim Cramer, head of Ansible engineering, Red Hat
“This new integration with Splunk Platform enables our users to
add significant functionality to the system tracking features that
Ansible Tower already offers. Pairing the powerful automation of
Ansible Tower with the Splunk Platform’s operational insights
across the build pipeline will help our users to report on facts
across systems and job output, providing the consumable data they
need to make decisions about their IT infrastructure and
processes."
Jon Rooney, senior director, IT Solutions Marketing, Splunk
“Automation data streams are incredibly rich sources of
operational insight, providing a wealth of information about what’s
happening in a modern enterprise IT environment. With the new
Ansible Tower application for Splunk, users can directly access the
Ansible Tower audit and metadata streams from within the Splunk
pPplatform, providing visibility into the provisioning, deployment
and configuration management task automated by Ansible.”
Additional Resources
- Visit the Ansible booth at Splunk.Conf
-- booth M6 -- to learn more about this new solution
- Learn more about Ansible Tower by Red
Hat
- Learn more about the Ansible Tower
application for Splunk
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