Cloud Operations Settings

Cloud Settings is the central location for managing cloud monitoring and billing configurations across your cloud environments. It provides an at-a-glance view of configuration health, helps identify monitoring or billing issues, and serves as the starting point for managing cloud accounts and configurations.

You can use Cloud Settings to do the following:

• Review issues affecting cloud monitoring or billing configurations, along with recommended actions to resolve them.
• Manage monitoring and billing configurations for your cloud environments.
• View the cloud provider accounts associated with your configurations and their current monitoring and billing status.
• Access related cloud management and observability capabilities, such as resource inventory, recommendations, and billing analysis.

Cloud Settings also automatically includes existing cloud monitoring and billing configurations that were previously set up, allowing you to manage both existing and newly added configurations from a single location

Requirements for Configuring Cloud Settings

To configure monitoring and billing settings for cloud resources, you must have the following:

• Access to view and configure cloud resources in the LogicMonitor Resource Tree.
  For more information, see Cloud Monitoring using a Collector for Existing Cloud Resources.
• Access to view and configure Billing in Cloud Operations.
  For more information, see Cost Optimization Billing Configuration.

Configuring Cloud Settings

1. Navigate to Cloud Operations > Cloud Settings
2. From the Add Configuration dropdown, select a cloud provider to see the configuration wizard.
   For example, to add resource monitoring for a single AWS account, select “AWS Account.”
3. Enter a Name and Description for the monitoring configuration.
4. In the Parent Group field, enter a parent resource group for the configuration.
   For more information, see Resource Group Overview.

5. (Optional) In the Properties section, do the following:
   1. Select Add Record to include resource properties in the monitoring configuration.
   2. In the Name field, enter or select a property to monitor.
      For example, select aws.accountid to include an AWS account.
   3. In the Value field, enter the identifying value for that resource.
      For example, enter the AWS Account ID you want to monitor.
   4. Select Apply.
6. Select Next: Permissions.

7. To create permissions for the monitoring configuration, enter the following credentials based on your provider:
   • AWS—Enter an Account ID, External ID, Policy, and Role ARN.
     If configuring an Organizational Unit, enter the Organization Root ARN.
   • Azure—Enter a Tenant ID, Client ID, and Secret Key
   • GCP—Enter a Project ID, and upload a Service Account Key.
   • OCI—Enter a Tenancy ID, User ID, and Private Key.
8. Select Next: Services

9. Deselect the checkbox for any service you want to exclude from monitoring.
   All available services are selected by default.
10. (Optional)To customize service settings, do the following:
    1. On the Service Settings tab, select Settings beside a service.
    2. Toggle Inherit from Global Settings to customize service settings.
    3. To manage whether removed services display in the configuration, toggle Automatically delete resources if they are no longer available in the cloud portal, and select a timeframe for which to keep removed services, up to 30 days.
    4. To manage alerting for removed services, toggle Automatically disable alerting for resources if they are no longer available in the cloud portal.
    5. In the Monitored Regions section, deselect any region you want to exclude from monitoring.
       All regions are selected by default.
    6. On the Tags tab, select Add to create a new service tag.
       For more information, see AWS Tag Usage in LogicMonitor or Azure Cost by Tag Monitoring.
    7. Enter a Tag Key and Tag Value.
    8. From the Operation dropdown menu, select “include” or “exclude.”
    9. Select Add Tag.
    10. Select Test Permissions.
        An error message displays if the details configured in the Permissions step do not match the selected services.
11. Select Next: Billing.
    If configuring an AWS Organizational Unit, select Next: Testing

12. Do one of the following:
    1. To configure billing monitoring, enter details to configure Billing monitoring as a DataSource.
       For more information, see one of the following:
       • AWS Billing Monitoring Setup
       • Azure Billing Monitoring Setup
       • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Billing Monitoring
    2. To complete configuration without billing, select Skip Billing and Finish

The new configuration now displays in the Configurations table. Select Edit in the table to modify a configuration, or Delete to remove it.

Navigating Cloud Settings

1. Navigate to Cloud Operations > Cloud Settings.
2. Select the Issues tab.
   A list of issues that LogicMonitor detects with your monitoring configurations displays. You can expand each issue for more details.

3. You can do any of the following as needed for each issue:
   • To manage the configuration, select Configure.
     You can update any missing or incorrect details that contribute to the issue.
   • To review the associated cloud resources, select View in Resource Explorer.
   • To view product documents related to the issue, select View Documentation.
4. Select the Configurations tab.
   A table containing all of the configurations added to Cloud Operations displays. You can expand each row of the table for more details.

5. You can do any of the following as needed for each configuration:
   • To modify configuration details, select Edit.
   • To delete a configuration, select Detele.
6. In the Accounts table, you can expand each account for more details.
   Expanding an account displays cloud provider accounts associated with the configurations added to Cloud Operations.

7. You can select an account and perform any of the following management actions for that account:
   • Select to add resource monitoring to the account. Alternatively, you can select Manage > Add Monitoring.
     If you already have this account added to monitoring, you can manage the monitoring configuration by selecting Manage > Manage Monitoring.
   • Select to add billing monitoring to the account. Alternatively, you can select Manage > Add Billing.
     If you already have this billing for this account added to monitoring, you can manage the billing configuration by selecting Manage > Manage Billing.
     For more information, see Configuring Cloud Settings.