Picture this: your infrastructure team drowns in dashboards, each showing a different truth about the same service. Backups, ownership metadata, and status checks live in scattered tools. You know something failed but not exactly where or who should fix it. That’s when Cohesity OpsLevel starts making sense.
Cohesity centralizes data protection, backup, and recovery. OpsLevel tracks service ownership, maturity, and operational readiness. Together, they pull your infrastructure’s health and responsibilities into one readable story. Instead of chasing logs across clusters like a detective in a broken RAID array, you get a shared source of truth.
When integrated, Cohesity OpsLevel creates a living inventory of your stack. Cohesity handles the hard data—snapshots, recovery points, audit trails. OpsLevel layers in human context—who owns that service, when it was last reviewed, and whether it meets defined reliability standards. The combination bridges technical and organizational visibility, which is the real superpower of this pairing.
The workflow is straightforward. OpsLevel ingests resource metadata from Cohesity using an API bridge authenticated through OIDC or static credentials. That data then maps to specific services, usually tagged by environment, project, or repo. When Cohesity completes a backup or detects an anomaly, OpsLevel can trigger an alert or runbook via webhook. Identity and audit events stay consistent since both systems can align with the same provider, such as Okta or AWS IAM.
If something feels off—like mismatched tags or an unreachable endpoint—start with permissions. Make sure OpsLevel has read-only access to the right Cohesity cluster and confirm that the Cohesity API token isn’t scoped too tightly. Rotate tokens regularly and keep them tied to service accounts, not individuals. Clean boundaries keep logs clean too.