Wavefront

Send monitoring events from Wavefront by VMware to BigPanda.

Supported VersionsTypeAuthentication Type
SaaS DeploymentsWebhookOrg Bearer Token

Wavefront enables you to use monitoring to collect analytics across your entire application stack. With this integration, you can correlate Wavefront alerts into high-level incidents in BigPanda so you can better understand and respond faster to critical issues.

Key Features

  • Utilizes an Alert Target within Wavefront to send alerts.
  • Correlates alerts from Wavefront to help you understand and respond faster to production issues.
  • Alerts configured to send resolve event will automatically resolve the corresponding alert in BigPanda on receipt of a resolve event.
  • Supports customization of the Wavefront Alert via alert templating.

Install the Integration

Administrators can install the integration by following the on-screen instructions in BigPanda.

Deactivate the Integration

If you want to stop sending data to BigPanda but don’t want to delete your integration, you can temporarily deactivate it.

To deactivate an inbound integration:

  1. In BigPanda, navigate to the Integrations tab and select the desired integration from the list. This will open integration details on the right side of the window.
  2. At the top of the integration details, click the Active/Inactive toggle next to the application name to change the status of the integration.

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Alert Resolution for Inactive Integrations

Any active alerts belonging to an inactive integration must be manually resolved or they will stay in the system until the auto-resolve window is reached.

Uninstall the Integration

Deleting an integration requires changes to both the integrated system and BigPanda. You must uninstall the integration on the integrated system and then delete the integration from BigPanda.

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When replacing an existing integration with a new tool or system, we recommend configuring the new integration first to ensure no data is lost.

Stop Sending Data to BigPanda

You must delete the created Alert Target for BigPanda within Wavefront.

  1. Log in to your Wavefront Dashboard.
  2. Go to Alerts New > Notification channels .
  3. Delete the BigPanda channel.
  4. Go to Alerts New > Alert policies.
  5. Delete the alert policy that was created for BigPanda.
  • If the BigPanda notification setting was added to an existing alert policy:
    • Go to the settings of the alert policy which contains the BigPanda settings.
    • Delete the BigPanda channel from the policy's notification channels.

Delete the Integration from BigPanda

  1. In BigPanda, navigate to the Integrations tab and select the desired integration from the list.
  2. In the integration details on the right of the page, click the trash icon, then confirm you want to delete the integration. The integration will then be removed immediately.

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️Alert Resolution for Deleted Integrations

All active alerts from the integration will be resolved after deletion.

️Data Removal

This procedure does not remove any data from the integrated system.