Cloud Observability in DDI Central

For Unified Visibility Across Cloud Networks

As enterprises expand their cloud footprint, network teams are often left grappling with fragmented visibility across platforms, resources, and services. DDI Central’s Cloud Observability is purpose-built to bridge this gap—bringing your cloud IP infrastructure and DNS records into one unified, visualized, and context-rich console.

AWS Integration

DDI Central integrates seamlessly with major public cloud environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS), offering comprehensive insights into:

• Amazon EC2 instances
• Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs)
• Elastic IPs
• Load Balancers
• Amazon ECS (container workloads)
• Amazon RDS (relational databases)
• VPCs and Subnets

By correlating these resources with IP usage, DNS behavior, and platform metadata, administrators can make informed decisions around network planning, compliance, and fault isolation—without hopping between multiple consoles. DDI Central provides rich visualizations and statistics to help administrators gain unified visibility across both AWS cloud and on-premises networks.

Multivendor DNS Integration

In addition to AWS infrastructure, Cloud Observability in DDI Central extends support for DNS monitoring and hands-on management of zone resource records, including new domain name creation and activity tracking for all actions performed within DDI Central, across several leading cloud providers:

• AWS Route 53
• Microsoft Azure DNS
• Google CloudDNS
• Cloudflare

This integration enables teams to monitor, audit, and manage DNS records directly within DDI Central, with full visibility into zone data and a complete audit trail of changes.

However, it intentionally excludes advanced features such as GeoDNS, DNS security extensions, and intelligent traffic routing policies, maintaining a focused scope on core DNS record management.

This level of monitoring is especially valuable for organizations managing hybrid environments or multiple cloud tenants, where centralized DNS visibility is critical for operational consistency and audit readiness.

Why It Matters

With DDI Central’s Cloud Observability, network administrators gain:

• Real-time, visual inventory of cloud-hosted resources
• Centralized view of DNS, IP addresses, subnets, and cloud-native workloads
• Contextual insights that aid in troubleshooting, compliance, and optimization
• Reduced manual effort with API-based auto-discovery and ongoing two-way sync

How to create a Cloud Observability Cluster in DDI Central

Login to DDI Central web UI.

Navigate and click the blue (Add) + icon in the top right corner. The Create Cluster window appears as shown below:

Here enter the details for the following fields,

Name: Enter a Name to uniquely identify the new Cloud Observability cluster to be created.

Type: Select the type of Cluster you would like to create based on the OS of your core network services. The options include: Linux, Windows, and Cloud Observability.

Note: To integrate with any of the supported cloud vendors, you must create a DDI Central cluster of type Cloud Observability, as it is the type of cluster that acts as a gateway for DDI Central's integrations with third-party cloud providers. You can create multiple Cloud Observability clusters as needed.

Service: Select the type of the Core Network Service from the cloud provider you would like to integrate and monitor within DDI Central. The options include:

• DNS: For monitoring DNS Services only. Ex: While setting up integration with AWS, choosing this will only show AWS Route53 and not show other services.
• DHCP: For monitoring DHCP Services only. Ex: While setting up integration with AWS, choosing this will only show AWS's cloud instances like RDS, ECS, EC2, VPCs and its Subnets, but skips the DNS resources.
• Both: For monitoring both DNS and DHCP services together.

Based on the services you select here, the provider will list out relevant services while setting up integration.

Click Save to create the Cloud Observability cluster.

To proceed further with the Cloud Observability cluster just created, DDI Central will immediately prompt you to add the cloud provider details you would like to integrate with DDI Central.