Overview Guard Dog Proxy for Jira

These guides will walk you through setting up Guard Dog Proxy for Jira. Designed specifically for administrators, they provide a comprehensive overview of all the features available in Guard Dog Proxy for Jira.

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 API governance for API Proxy within the Atlassian ecosystem, leaving them vulnerable to evolving security threats.

Key features

• Comprehensive data tracking and logging

  • Proxy configuration: Generate proxy URLs to track API requests passing through the app.

  • Logging of activity: Log all request events through API proxy.

• API integration and log management

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

• Insights and analytics

  • Insight cards: Display critical information that defines API health

  • Analysis chart: Provide visualizations to offer deeper insights into the shared data.

• Dashboards and visualization

  • Overview dashboard: Offers a more holistic view of API data usage.

• Policies and automation

  • Policies & automation: Increase customization for business units to enhance API security and streamline governance.

Some further concepts are explained at the Key concepts Guard Dog Proxy 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 API traffic anomalies.

• Customize policies to fit cloud security governance.

• Implement the same data center processes in the cloud.

• Empowers and delivers greater transparency.

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.