Plugins 〉BMC Helix

The BMC Helix plugin has been deprecated and is no longer maintained.

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BMC Helix

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BMC Helix Datasource

This is a Grafana datasource for fetching Metrics, Events & logs from Helix Monitor, Helix Remediate & Helix Optimize products

Requirements

Grafana 7.3.1+ is required.

BMC Helix v21.02+ license/subscription is required

Features

Supports Lucene queries to fetch Events & Logs
Supports Promql & Metricql to fetch Metrics data
Utilizes BMC Helix REST API's
Secured authentication via access key and secret key

Configuration

This datasource uses the Instana REST API to query the underlying data services.

First of all you will need to generate an Access key & Secret key in BMC Helix portal (Keys)

Configure Retrived values as shown below

datasource configuration

Usage

Query Types

The following query types are available:

CloudSecurity
Use this query type to fetch compliance data of the devices in your environment.
Events
Use this query type to fetch event data on the devices in your environment.
Metric
Use this query type to fetch the performance metrics data of the devices in your environment.
Log
Use this query type to fetch the log data from BMC Helix Log Analytics in your environment.

Query Editor

This section describes the each query editor.

Cloud Security

The following image displays the CloudSecurity query type:

query type

This query type requires the following data:

Field	Description
Query Type	Use this field to select the query type
Query	Use one of the following queries to build a panel. The options for each query type are different Asset Compliance, Policy Compliance , Compliance Trend, Risk Account, Operations, Resource Pool

Events / Log

The following image displays the Events query type:

query type

This query type requires the following data:

Field	Description
Query Type	Use this field to select the query type
Query	Use a Lucene query syntax here, and it also supports typeahead
Metric	Click this field to select a metric for the query. For example, Average, Min, Max, and so on
Group by	Select a clause to group your data in the panel.

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Metrics

The following image displays the Metric query type:

query type

Field	Description
Query Type	Use this field to select the query type
Metrics	Add a metrics query to this field. You can also form your metric query through query builder. Click the Metrics Browser field to access the query builder.
Legend	Add a legend to appear in the panel. You can use a variable here. For example, the value of the {{hostname}} variable is replaced with the host name in the panel.
Min step	Add a threshold for a lower limit of the Prometheus query. This setting is absolute, and cannot be changed by the value in the Resolution field.
Resolution	Sets the parameter for each pixel to correspond to one data point of a Prometheus range query. Use lower resolutions for better performance.
Format	Select one of the following formats for the panel: Time Series , Table , Heatmap
Instant	Use this radio button to return only the latest value for the requested time series. Instant queries return results faster than the normal range queries.

Sample Dashboards

Events Dashboard

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Metrics Dashboard

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Installing BMC Helix on Grafana Cloud:

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

2.0.0 (2022-16-01)

Features and enhancements

Log: Use new query type log to fetch the log data from BMC Helix Log Analytics in your environment.

3.0.0 (2022-22-04)

Features and enhancements

Query Editor moved to React from Angular.
Events / Log: Upgraded the event query type UI. And added typeahead support for event query.
Metrics: Upgraded the metric query type UI. Added metrics browser, to help user create the query with query builder.