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Forwarding VMC Events to AWS Lambda/CloudWatch using Log Intelligence Webhook

06/11/2019 by William Lam Leave a Comment

In my previous post, I provided an example on how customers can take advantage of Log Intelligence's Webhook capability to consume VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) based events and extend that to other Public Cloud Services like Slack as an example to build new and interesting integrations. We took advantage of the fact that some of these Public Cloud Services either have native webhook support or have a built-in Webhook listener like IFTTT which in turn can support other services which may not have native Webhook support.

However, customers can also build their own Webhook listener, which is nothing more than being able to POST to an API endpoint with a pre-defined JSON payload. In fact, this would be needed for any on-premises integration if the solution does not support webhooks.

For VMC customers who currently consume AWS Services such as Lambda and CloudWatch, it is actually very easy to integrate these and other AWS Services directly using LINT's Webhook feature. In fact, I chose Lambda and CloudWatch as these are two of the mostly frequently asked integration points. At our recent VMC Customer Summit, which took place last month, I had built a demo based on an actual customer use case for sending specific VMC Events from LINT to Cloud Watch as that was their tool of choice for auditing purpose.

I decided to make use of Lambda as it allowed me to quickly integrate with CloudWatch and I could also show how lambda integration would work given the number of customers asking. Ultimately, Lambda also enabled me to easily build a Webhook listener to process the LINT Webhook by simply front-ending the Lambda function with an AWS API Gateway, which was super easy to setup and use.

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Filed Under: Automation, VMware Cloud on AWS Tagged With: API Gateway, CloudWatch, Lambda, LINT, Log Intelligence, VMC, VMware Cloud on AWS, Webhook

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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Services Business Unit (CSBU) at VMware. He focuses on Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC)

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