Red Hat Announces Ansible Tower App for Splunk, Enabling Intelligence and Automation Enhancements
Users can now build reports and analyze Ansible Tower automation data
for compliance and auditing with Splunk Solutions
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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.”
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