Understand Cloud Accounts UI

The Cloud Accounts page provides an at-a-glance summary of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure accounts connected to your Sysdig Monitor environment. It lists the type of accounts and the status of metrics ingestion, shows namespaces, and launches dashboards corresponding to the cloud services for health and performance evaluation. You can also add or remove cloud accounts from the Cloud Accounts page.

Cloud Accounts UI provides an at-a-glance summary of AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure accounts connected to your Sysdig Monitor environment and lists the type of accounts and the status of metrics ingestion, shows namespaces, and launches dashboards corresponding to the cloud services for health and performance evaluation. You can also add or remove cloud accounts from the Cloud Accounts page.

Access Cloud Accounts UI

  1. Log in to Sysdig Monitor as an Admin.

  2. In the left-hand sidebar, select Integration > Cloud Accounts.

    The Cloud Accounts page is displayed.

View Account Details

On the Cloud Accounts page, you can view the following details:

  • Platform: The list of supported Cloud Accounts.

  • Account ID: The account ID associated with you Cloud Account.

  • Type: Type indicates the method you have used to configure the account connection.

    • AWS: The supported types are Role Delegation and Key/Secret.
    • GCP: The supported type is Key/Secret.
    • Azure: The supported type is Key/Secret.

  • Cost Data: The statuses associated with the Costs information. Currently only applicable to AWS.

  • Metrics: Shows the metrics collection status. For more information, see Connection Status.

Amazon CloudWatch

View Operational Details

For a given account, you can view enabled services and namespaces, as well as a list of dashboards that you can launch to view health and operational details.

  1. On the Cloud Accounts page, click the desired AWS account.

    The slider appear on screen listing the namespaces and associated dashboards.

  2. Click a desired dashboard to open the dashboard page to view the performance and health of the service.

Disable CloudWatch Metric Streams

To stop ingesting AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams into Sysdig, you have to stop the stream on the AWS Console by disabling Sysdig as a Amazon Data Firehose HTTP endpoint. If you do not disable Metric Streams from pushing metrics into Sysdig via the Amazon Data Firehose HTTP endpoint, you will continue to ingest and store the metrics within Sysdig, which in turn will increase your time series consumption cost.

CloudFormation

If metric streaming was set up using the Sysdig’s or your own CloudFormation template, delete the stack that you have created during the setup.

AWS Console

Delete the following:

  1. CloudWatch Metric Streams connected to Sysdig.
  2. The Amazon Data Firehose delivery stream that forwards metrics to Sysdig.
  3. The backup S3 bucket linked to the Firehose.
  4. The IAM roles associated with the stream and all the resources that were created while setting up the stream.

For information on disabling AWS CloudWatch Streams, see Using Metric Streams.

Microsoft Azure

View Operational Details

For a given account, you can view enabled services and namespaces, as well as a list of dashboards that you can launch to view health and operational details.

  1. On the Cloud Accounts page, click the desired Azure account. The slider appear on screen listing the namespaces and associated dashboards.

  2. Click a desired dashboard to open the dashboard page to view the performance and health of the service.

    You can access the following out-of-the-box Azure Dashboards and Alerts:

    • Azure Virtual Machines
    • Azure Active Directory
    • Azure AKSAzure Blob Storage
    • Azure API Management

See Connect an Azure Account for more information.

Disable Microsoft Azure

To disable an Azure account:

  1. Navigate to Integrations > Cloud Accounts, and locate the Azure account you want to disable.
  2. Click the three-dots, and click Disble Metrics.

You can enable the an disbale metrics using the same menu option. Wait for up to 5 minutes for the metrics to be displayed on the UI.

Google Cloud Platform

View Operational Details

You can access the following out-of-the-box GCP Dashboards and Alerts:

Add a Cloud Account

To add a Cloud Account:

  1. Log in to Sysdig Monitor and select Integrations > Cloud Accounts.

  2. Select Add Account.

  3. Select from AWS, Azure, and GCP and follow the wizard instructions.

Delete a Cloud Account

To delete an Cloud account:

  1. Navigate to Integrations > Cloud Accounts, and locate the account you want to delete.
  2. Click the three-dots, and click Delete Account.

Connection Status

The statuses associated to metric stream creation in a region are:

  • Configuring: The CloudFormation stack is being created at the moment.
  • Configured: The account credentials are correct but no data has been loaded. This status is applicable only to the API integration type.
  • Reporting metrics: Stack is created, metric stream is in running state, and no files are found with data in S3 backup storage. It appears either everything is working as expected, or at least one resource is loaded for the API integration type.
  • Needs attention: Something went wrong. Either metric stream is stopped, or it cannot send data to endpoint, or somebody deleted metric stream from the stack.
  • Error: An error occurred while checking the metric stream status.

The statuses for account linkage are given below. They are related to the background jobs that are actually connect to the AWS and either grab metrics in case of API integrations or check stream status in case of stream integration.

  • Configured: The very first status set right after cloud integration is created and background jobs are executed.
  • Loading: Background refresh job was scheduled
  • Done: Background loading job successfully finished for the cloud integration
  • Error: An error occurred during background refresh job execution.