Overview for Relay

Guard Dog Relay for Jira will help you connect your platforms, keep track of what’s happening in your webhook events and build readiness within Atlassian cloud.

Overview of Guard Dog for Jira

Guard Dog for Jira enhances API and webhook monitoring within the Atlassian ecosystem, addressing challenges faced by organizations transitioning to the cloud environment.

It tracks API requests and webhook events, integrating seamlessly with enterprise tools like Splunk and Logstash for advanced monitoring and flexible log analysis. Insight cards, analysis charts, and dashboards offer clear visualizations of data, while future updates will include policies and automation to boost governance and security.

When to install Proxy vs. Relay

• Proxy: Install Guard Dog Proxy for Jira when you need to monitor and log API requests, ensuring visibility into API activities and governance within your Atlassian environment.

• Relay: Install Guard Dog Relay for Jira when you need to track and manage webhook events, providing comprehensive logging, performance monitoring, and error tracking for webhook activities.

Challenges

Companies that move from on-premises or data center solutions to SaaS cloud-based solutions gain significant operational benefits. However, many of the methods used to monitor the health of their integrations are no longer available to them. As a result, organizations face challenges in maintaining an oversight of their webhook activities within the Atlassian ecosystem, leaving them vulnerable to evolving security threats.

Key features

• Webhook tracking and logging - Log the following webhook request events through the Webhook relay:

  • Outbound traffic

  • Performance monitoring

  • Errors

  • Enforced policies (coming soon)

• Webhook Management and Integration

  • Relay mapping: Register and configure webhooks to be relayed into the app.

  • Integration with Splunk and Logstash: Push webhook logs to Splunk for advanced monitoring and alerts, or to Logstash for flexible analysis using the ELK stack.

• Webhook Insights and Analytics

  • Insight cards: Display key information to assess webhook health and performance.

  • Analysis chart: Offer visualizations to provide deeper insights into webhook data.

• Webhook dashboards

  • Overview dashboard: Provides a comprehensive view of webhook data across apps for easy monitoring and analysis.

• Webhook policies and automation (coming soon)

  • Policies & automation: Allow customization of webhook processes to enhance governance and security according to business needs.

Some further concepts are explained at the Key concepts for Guard Dog Relay for Jira page.

Key benefits

• Perform monitoring within the Atlassian environment.

• Easily connect with external monitoring and alerts.

• Probe incidents or activities from logs.

• Early detection of webhook traffic anomalies.

• Replicate your existing Data Center processes within the Cloud environment.

• Empowers and delivers greater transparency.

• Customize policies to fit cloud security governance. (coming soon)

Use cases

• Resolving security governance as an organization migrates to the cloud.

• Centralizing cloud governance, policies and protocols.

• Identifying the root cause of an integration incident.

• Monitoring integration traffic under the hood in the Atlassian environment.