In today's fast-paced digital landscape, cloud resources are the backbone of innovation. Yet, for many organisations, managing these dynamic environments feels like navigating a dense fog.
Do these challenges sound familiar?
The Cloud Conundrum: Real Problems, Real Frustration
Imagine grappling with complexity and fragmentation across your cloud landscape.
You're trying to manage resources spread across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, but each provider exists in its own silo. This scattered approach makes it incredibly difficult to get a handle on what you truly have, where it is, and how it's performing. This leads directly to a lack of unified insights.
Without a consolidated view, gaining comprehensive insights into critical areas like cost, security posture, and performance across your diverse cloud assets becomes a Herculean task. How can you optimise spending or bolster security when you can't even see the full picture?
The Result? Inefficient management!
Cloud administrators, SecOps teams, and Finance analysts often lack a consistent, persona-driven view of their cloud estate. This leads to wasted time, missed opportunities for cost optimisation, and delayed identification of vulnerabilities – a true headache for any IT operations team.
Introducing the Cloud Asset Explorer: Your Single Pane of Glass
What if you could cut through the cloud chaos? The Cloud Asset Explorer is your answer – a simplified, scalable, and persona-driven visualisation experience designed to provide a unified, cross-provider view of all your cloud resources, from compute and storage to network assets.
This powerful dashboard is designed to help cloud governance and operations teams monitor, track, and act on compliance and asset details more efficiently. As an asset viewer, you can see all your assets and drill down to find detailed information for each configuration item (CI).
You can easily access the dashboard via All > Cloud Workspace > Cloud asset explorer or Workspaces > Cloud Workspace > Cloud asset explorer.
TLDR: Cloud Asset Explorer
Unlocking Power: Key Capabilities of the Cloud Asset Explorer
The Cloud Asset Explorer isn't just a viewing tool; it's a comprehensive management platform that addresses your most pressing cloud challenges:
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Unified Visibility & Control: Say goodbye to fragmented views! The Cloud Asset Explorer provides a single, flattened view of all your cloud assets with a consistent taxonomy, enabling comprehensive oversight. The cloud asset form is a centralised, highly organised, and comprehensive set of sections dedicated to your cloud asset details. Use this form to examine and edit cloud asset attributes, relationships, tags, services and offerings, account health and data associated with the cloud asset, resources, activities, and related services.
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Persona-Centric Efficiency: Whether you're a Cloud Admin, SecOps specialist, or a Finance Analyst, the explorer offers tailored views that provide relevant attribute sets and insights to drive efficiency. The Summary section, for instance, provides a consolidated view of key CI information for a Virtual Machine (VM) instance, helping you quickly access metadata, ownership details, operational status, and discovery timestamps. The Attributes section displays all UI sections configured for the CI class, with dedicated Discovery and Operational subsections, and mandatory attributes clearly marked.
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Enhanced Cost & Performance Optimisation: Ever wondered if you're getting the best value for your cloud storage? The explorer allows you to deep dive into usage, regions, and perform cost comparisons (e.g., Glacier vs. S3) to identify significant savings opportunities. The Tags section is crucial here, listing cloud tags stored as key/value pairs from providers like AWS and Google Cloud Platform. These tags, automatically populated by Discovery and Service Graph Connectors, are vital for ITOM applications like Tag Governance and facilitate Tag-based discovery in Service Mapping. The Resources section displays linked resources, corresponding to Related Lists in the Explore CI view, giving you a clear picture of what's connected and costing what.
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Proactive Security Posture: Security can't wait. The Cloud Asset Explorer provides integrated vulnerability context with severity indicators directly linked to resource metadata for improved security analysis. The Activity section shows related items like open incidents, open changes, and open problems, broken down by priority or state in easy-to-read pie charts. It also offers a detailed CI history, listing value changes in CI attributes in chronological order, providing an audit trail for security events. Furthermore, the Health section shows aggregations from the latest CMDB Health test results for Completeness, Correctness, Compliance, and Relationship KPIs, with color codes denoting pass/fail scores, giving you an immediate security health check.
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Future-Ready & Extensible: Built with a robust architecture, the Cloud Asset Explorer is designed to support future innovations, including knowledge graphs for inferring complex relationships and dependencies. It systematically details CI relationships, including the total number, duplicate entries, and stale relationships, ensuring your data is always accurate and ready for advanced analysis. It also organises Services and Offerings associated with the CI, categorising them into Service Instances, Business Service Offerings, Technology Management Offerings, and Technology Management Services.
A Deeper Dive into Your Cloud Assets
Beyond these core capabilities, the Cloud Asset Explorer's detailed form provides a granular view:
- Summary: A quick glance at essential CI information for Virtual Machine (VM) instances, including ownership and operational status.
- Attributes: Access all configured UI sections, including Discovery and Operational details, with all CI attributes listed in the 'All' subsection.
- Tags: Manage key/value pairs that are critical for ITOM applications and discovery.
- Resources: See all resources directly linked to your CI.
- Activity: Stay informed with tabs showing open incidents, changes, problems, and a complete history of CI attribute changes.
- Relationships: Understand the connections with total, duplicate, and stale relationship counts.
- Services and Offerings: Get a clear picture of associated services, from Service Instances to Technology Management Services.
- Health: Monitor CMDB Health KPIs (Completeness, Correctness, Compliance, Relationship) and attestation status with intuitive color codes.
Don't let cloud complexity hold your organisation back. The Cloud Asset Explorer empowers your teams with the insights, control, and efficiency needed to thrive in any multi-cloud environment. It’s time to gain true clarity and take command of your cloud future!
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