Automated system health monitoring and logs

Purpose

1.1. To automate real-time monitoring, detection, alerting, and reporting of system health, security, and operation logs across military facility IT and OT environments.
1.2. Ensures automated anomaly detection, uptime validation, and log aggregation to support mission continuity and proactive response.
1.3. Supports near-instant automated triage and escalation in compliance with government and defense standards.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated triggers on error, warning, or critical system events within infrastructure logs.
2.2. Scheduled automation for periodic health checks and log ingestion.
2.3. Manual or rule-based triggers on threshold breaches (CPU, memory, disk, network) or unusual access.

Platform Variants

3.1. Splunk
• Feature/Setting: HTTP Event Collector (HEC) API to automate real-time log ingestion and alerting.
3.2. Datadog
• Feature/Setting: Monitor API to automate creation of health monitors and event-based notifications.
3.3. Elastic Stack (ELK)
• Feature/Setting: Filebeat/Logstash automated pipeline configuration for ingest, Kibana alerting API.
3.4. Prometheus
• Feature/Setting: Alertmanager API for automated alert delivery and receiver setup.
3.5. Grafana
• Feature/Setting: Automation via Grafana Alerting API for health dashboards and instant alerts.
3.6. AWS CloudWatch
• Feature/Setting: CloudWatch Alarms; automate log metric filters and automated SNS notification.
3.7. Azure Monitor
• Feature/Setting: Log Analytics API for health logs, automated action groups for escalation.
3.8. Google Cloud Operations Suite
• Feature/Setting: Monitoring API for policy automation and automated log-based triggers.
3.9. Sumo Logic
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled Searches and Alert Webhook for automated notification.
3.10. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Event API for automated incident creation and escalation.
3.11. Zabbix
• Feature/Setting: Automated trigger actions & API integration for real-time alerts.
3.12. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Event Management REST API for automated incident detection and response initiation.
3.13. New Relic
• Feature/Setting: Alerts API for health rule automation and event push.
3.14. Opsgenie
• Feature/Setting: Alert API for fully-automated alert routing and notification.
3.15. Nagios
• Feature/Setting: External Command File & event handler automation for health alerting.
3.16. SolarWinds
• Feature/Setting: Automation through Orion SDK/REST API for monitor and alert configuring.
3.17. IBM QRadar
• Feature/Setting: Offense API for automating security event detection and notification.
3.18. Loggly
• Feature/Setting: Automated Alerts with Webhook API for health state changes.
3.19. Syslog-ng
• Feature/Setting: Automated log route configuration and flexible integration.
3.20. VictorOps
• Feature/Setting: REST Events API for automate incident hand-off.

Benefits

4.1. Automates system health insight for proactive defense and uninterrupted operation.
4.2. Reduces human errors by automating detection and escalation.
4.3. Accelerates response velocity via automated notifications and workflows.
4.4. Standardizes and automates compliance with defense IT monitoring protocols.
4.5. Supports automating audit log retention for forensics and review.
4.6. Automates multi-platform visibility, centralizing monitoring automatable from diverse systems and data sources.
4.7. Enables scaling of automated system health operations across expanded military facilities.