Types of inbound integrations

This section reviews the known inbound integrations by category and license type.

Categories

Each known inbound integration vendor or solution was grouped into one of three categories:

• Observability platforms—such as Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Splunk—offer multiple monitoring types in a unified view. Most (92%) organizations had at least one inbound integration with an observability platform. Nearly two-thirds (61%) of the known inbound integrations were between BigPanda and 20 observability platforms. However, only 19% of the known inbound integration vendors or solutions fell into this category. Nearly a quarter (22%) of the events were from observability platforms.
• Purpose-built monitoring tools—such as Cisco ThousandEyes, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Site24x7, SolarWinds, and Zabbix—offer one or two more focused, specialized types of monitoring. Over three-quarters (82%) of organizations had at least one inbound integration with a purpose-built monitoring tool. A third (33%) of the known inbound integrations were between BigPanda and 72 purpose-built monitoring tools. Over two-thirds (69%) of the inbound integration vendors or solutions fell into this category. Half (50%) of the events were from purpose-built monitoring tools.
• Non-monitoring platforms, systems, or tools—such as Cribl, Databricks, MongoDB, Moogsoft, and ServiceNow—bring in non-monitoring-related data. Over a quarter (29%) of organizations had at least one inbound integration with a non-monitoring tool. Just 6% of inbound integrations were between BigPanda and 12 non-monitoring tools. Only 11% of the inbound integration vendors or solutions fell into this category. More than a quarter (27%) of the events were from non-monitoring platforms, systems, or tools.

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License types

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of the known integrations were with proprietary vendors, such as Cisco AppDynamics, Datadog, LogicMonitor, New Relic, and VMware vRealize Operations (vROps).

The remaining 27% were with open-source solutions, such as the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Grafana, Jenkins, Prometheus, and Sensu.

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