Identifying third-party products for integration
Use the following information to start planning for custom third-party integrations:
Research a vendor and understand the data you can collect from a third-party vendor
Before you can integrate a third-party product with BMC Helix Developer Tools, explore the various features of the third-party product that you plan to integrate. For example, for the SolarWinds NPM product, explore configuration items (CIs), events, metrics, and topology data that can be retrieved for monitoring. For more information, see SolarWinds NPM.
If required, get a trial or licensed setup for the third-party product that you plan to integrate with BMC Helix Platform.
A few more references for third-party vendors are listed in the following section:
Explore and test public APIs available for integration
After you have finalized the third-party product that you plan to integrate and are familiar with its features, identify the public APIs that are available for integration. For example, SolarWinds NPM has endpoints such as Query, Invoke, Create, Read, Update, and so on. For more information, see SolarWinds NPM APIs.. Test the APIs out of the box.
Get familiar with Fluentd plug-ins
Explore and understand various out-of-the-box Fluentd plug-ins available and their utilities. For example, record_modifier is a filter plug-in that is used to modify event records. For a complete list of Fluentd plug-ins, see Fluentd plugins.
Where to go from here