Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine and VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Authored by Cheryl Young and Sehjung Hah

As customers expand their infrastructure to multi-cloud, they will find value in a single source of log information to improve correlation and operations. The SaaS solution VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud) now has visibility of Google Cloud VMware Engine SDDCs (also known as Google Cloud VMware Engine private clouds) to increase its logging capabilities in addition to the 200+ non-VMware sources and other VMware Clouds.

Customers benefit from using Google Cloud VMware Engine, a native Google Cloud service enabling users to run VMware workloads in Google Cloud. The service provides rapid node deployment, saves customers time, and reduces costs. With innovative networking and 99.99% uptime, it is a reliable choice for enterprise workloads. Customers also have direct access to Google Cloud Platform services to unlock business insights as part of their digital transformation. Google Cloud VMware Engine reduces the operational burden on IT and enables enterprises to migrate, extend, and modernize their applications in Google Cloud.

VMware Aria Operations for Logs makes it easy to analyze logs from across the infrastructure in one place because of the broad range of supported applications and infrastructure. Seeing all the logs in one place makes it more seamless to troubleshoot and root cause what might be occurring to improve user experience with applications.

By combining these solutions, the VMware Aria Operations for Logs visualization of the logs from Google Cloud VMware Engine can help make applications run better. The correlation of the data center logging and ecosystem with events happening in the Google Cloud VMware Engine environment will make it more intuitive to understand what is happening for faster root cause analysis. Watch the demonstration video.

**Figure 1.** VMware Aria Operations for Logs displays logs from Google Cloud VMware Engine to help users correlate application issues.

Now customers of Google Cloud VMware Engine have a complete logging solution available that helps correlate events that are happening within their cloud and with the rest of their infrastructure.

The key logging capabilities in VMware Aria Operations for Logs also apply for Google Cloud VMware Engine (Solution Brief):

Log export
Log comparison and trends
Dashboard creation and sharing

VMware Aria Operations for Logs can provide real-time log information from Google Cloud VMware Engine, which gives users machine learning-based intelligent log grouping and high-performance search to enable faster troubleshooting across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.