{"id":23437,"date":"2022-06-09T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=23437"},"modified":"2022-06-22T01:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T05:44:27","slug":"how-to-monitor-it-infrastructure-when-adopting-iac-for-vdi-and-digital-workspaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/how-to-monitor-it-infrastructure-when-adopting-iac-for-vdi-and-digital-workspaces\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Monitor IT Infrastructure when adopting IaC for VDI and Digital Workspaces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) is becoming ubiquitous in the EUC (End User Computing) community and within the datacenter. Automation and declarative infrastructure for on-premises VDI and cloud digital workspaces, such as Microsoft AVD<\/a> (Azure Virtual Desktop) or AWS WorkSpaces<\/a>, is now mainstream.<\/p>\n

Vendors such as Citrix now advocate the use of technologies such as Terraform and Ansible for deployments<\/a>. Those products that also cover APM<\/a>, DevOps monitoring<\/a>, and end-to-end monitoring have long been integrated into IaC workflows. EUC adopters have access to mature, stable options.<\/p>\n

<\/span>IaC and How it Relates to Monitoring Tools<\/span><\/h2>\n

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is becoming universal for defining and automating the creation and deployment of IT infrastructure. Higher-level languages and scripts are used to define the infrastructure that applications run on. These frameworks include networking, servers, data storage, and so on.<\/p>\n

This is all taking place as auto-scaling and auto-deployment becomes standard, as well. As a result, IaC may now define how infrastructure should auto-scale up or down to service the needs of applications.<\/p>\n

<\/span>eG Innovations Stands Apart with IaC Considerations<\/span><\/h3>\n

eG Enterprise<\/a> is one of very few EUC monitoring products that also covers unified APM (Application Performance Monitoring), infrastructure monitoring, and cloud monitoring. As such, we have constructed our product to work within the new normal of IaC.\u00a0 This allows our tools to overcome challenges traditional monitoring tools will face.<\/p>\n

One common customer scenario we encounter in APM use cases is the deployment of SaaS (Software as a Service) Java-based apps deployed within containers on application servers such as Tomcat or WebLogic. Often they are running on public clouds such as Azure<\/a> and AWS (Amazon Web Service). As demand fluctuates to maintain key metrics such as application response times, frameworks like Kubernetes<\/a> are leveraged to spin up new infrastructure (e.g., additional servers) to service increased demand.<\/p>\n

The performance and availability of the apps and services, though, is the business-critical need. It is essential to monitor infrastructure that may be temporary and automatically deployed (or destroyed). Those deploying EUC will now face the same challenges when moving from static manually deployed systems to IaC methodologies.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Mapping Traditional EUC Admin Task to IaC Workflows<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are often many steps involved in monitoring infrastructure. Traditionally, an EUC system administrator maintaining a static on-premises deployment must perform tasks manually to gain monitoring insights via a console. Such tasks may include:<\/p>\n