Overview
The Event Exposure Services are Apache Kafka-based streams that expose cloud service and infrastructure (management) events relevant to a particular tenant.
Health Exposure Service
With the Health Exposure Service, you get a stream (topic) of health status events from the Enterprise Service Cloud (ESC) service instances.
For example, by using Health Exposure you can have access to the current health state of your VMs. Health events should be published both on status change, but also with a service-defined interval frequency. This makes sure that consumers' reporting/inventories are converging after one such interval. Please consult also the individual service documentation as this might differ from service to service.
Features
The service has the following main features:
- Tenant-specific service instance health status is published on a customer Kafka topic
- Events are published on status change and at regular intervals (individual service instances )
- mTLS authentication
- Administration rights granted via a vRA custom role
- Self-service via the ESC Portal
- Access management API
- 24-hour retention for events in the topic
- Access to the topic from inside the tenant workload
Log Exposure Service
With the Log Exposure Service, you get a stream (topic) of log events from the Enterprise Service Cloud (ESC) services and infrastructure.
For example, by using Log Exposure you can have access to security and audit logs from Managed Windows VMs or firewall service logs from your firewall rules.
Features
The service has the following main features:
- Tenant-specific cloud infrastructure and workload logs are published on a customer Kafka topic
- mTLS authentication
- Administration rights granted via a vRA custom role
- Self-service via the ESC Portal
- Access management API
- 24-hour retention for events in the topic
- Access to the topic from inside the tenant workload