Cloud Data Sync
In today's fast-paced and ever-changing cloud infrastructure, keeping track of the large number of resources in your infrastructure can be challenging. This is especially true for organizations with multiple teams and engineers working in multiple cloud accounts and regions.
Fix Inventory's cloud data sync runs continuously in the background, collecting information about your cloud resources and triggering actions in response to changes. The cloud data sync process is a workflow that runs every hour.
Resource Collection​
Fix Inventory routinely extracts and transforms infrastructure data from cloud provider and SaaS APIs, storing snapshots of your infrastructure in its asset inventory graph database.
A complete view of your infrastructure is the foundation for insights, metrics, and automation, as it allows you to understand the current state of your infrastructure and identify issues. Costly security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and unused resources can be monitored by Fix Inventory.
Fix Inventory's pluggable architecture allows it to collect data from multiple cloud providers.
Each collector plugin includes logic to extract data from the cloud provider API and map it to Fix Inventory's unified data model. This mapping allows you to interact with resources across cloud providers in a consistent fashion. Each resource has id, name, kind, tags, created_at, and updated_at properties, in addition to cloud, account, and region data denoting the location of the resource.
Resource collector plugins not only index your infrastructure, but also gather data about resource relationships to connect resources in the asset inventory graph.
Collectors are designed to be run in parallel, which allows for fast and efficient data collection. Each collector reports the latest state of your resources to Fix Inventory, which then writes the data to the internal graph database.
Reacting to Infrastructure Changes​
After resource collection is complete, the asset inventory graph database contains a complete and up-to-date view of your infrastructure available.
Fix Inventory can monitor your infrastructure using the data in the graph and automatically perform specified actions when conditions are met.
Metrics Generation​
Fix Inventory Metrics calculates configured metrics at this point and stores them in a time-series database.
Fix Inventory ships with a set of predefined metrics, but you can also define your own metrics for custom dashboards and alerts.
Resource Management​
Fix Inventory has infrastructure apps for resource management that also run in this phase of the cloud data sync process.
Custom Automations​
Last but not least, you can define your rules and actions in this phase. Jobs can be triggered at specific points in the cloud data sync process with an event trigger, or on a schedule using a schedule trigger.