How do I work with VMware Aria
Automation content packs
VMware Aria
Automation
content packsContent packs are hosted in Log
Insight and contain dashboards, extracted fields, saved queries, and alerts that are related
to a specific product or set of logs. You can install community supported content packs from
the VMware Sample Exchange and other content packs from the Content Pack Marketplace.
VMware Aria Operations for Logs
delivers automated log management through
aggregation, analytics and search, enabling operational intelligence and enterprise-wide
visibility in dynamic hybrid cloud environments. Content packs are plug-ins to
VMware Aria Operations for Logs
that
provide pre-defined knowledge about specific types of events such as log messages.To download a content pack, from
VMware Aria Operations for Logs
navigate to . You can also import content packs by clicking + Import
Content Pack
.VMware Aria
Automation Content
Pack
VMware Aria
Automation
Content
PackThe
VMware Aria
Automation
content pack provides a consolidated
summary of log events across all VMware Aria
Automation
environment components. In includes several dashboards
that provide a general overview, insight on errors and operations, and overall
health of your VMware Aria
Automation
instance. These dashboards are listed on the
Dashboard
tab along with all other VMware Aria Operations for Logs
dashboards.
Once loaded, it can take up to 30 seconds for the dashboards to populate with
metrics.The
VMware Aria
Automation
content pack includes these dashboards: - General - Overview: Captures an overview of high level metrics forVMware Aria Automation.
- General - Problems:
- Service - Provision: Captures issues related to the provisioning service.
- Service - Catalog: Captures issues related to the catalog service.
- Service - EBS: Captures issues related to the event broker service.
- Service - Templates: Captures errors and metrics related toAutomation Assemblercloud templates, custom resources, and resource actions.
- Service - Approval: Captures errors and metrics related to approvals.
- Infra - Health: Captures when pods are restarted over time. This dashboard is essential to detect outages dues to resource limits.
- Infra - Active Ping: Captures the health check URL over time.
Some dashboards contain widgets that
provide more focused analytics. To view the type of analysis that is performed in
each widget, click the information
icon.

As a
VMware Aria
Automation
administrator, you can follow this general content pack workflow to identify errors
and troubleshoot.