Resilience across Core, Sensors and recovery

Keep monitoring close. Keep authority clear.

AmrudAi supports observability high availability & resilience for enterprise operations. Combine a two-Core Active/Standby architecture with resilient Sensor pools, local buffering and a defined recovery plan. Protect monitoring continuity across component failures while keeping failover decisions, spare capacity and operational evidence visible.

The application experience

Disaster recovery & failover verification

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HA, Sensor Redundancy & Recovery — illustrative product view with sample data. Illustrative product view · Sample data
Inspect authority transitions, Sensor reassignment, alternate paths and restore evidence.
One Sensor & Monitoring Policies — illustrative product view with sample data. Illustrative product view · Sample data
Auto-select collection roles while retaining effective policy, capacity and failover context.

Keep observability available when a component fails.

Core resilience and collection resilience work together.

Two full Cores provide Active/Standby HA. Distributed Sensor pools share collection work and reassign it to eligible capacity when a Sensor becomes unavailable. Safe ownership, a stable Core endpoint and buffered replay help the NOC retain continuity and understand any remaining gaps.

  • Maintain one authoritative Active Core.
  • Reassign eligible monitoring work safely.
  • Keep recovery, backlog and gaps visible.
Sensor redundancy
A failed collector is not a failed service
A COLLECTION POOL · SHARED MONITORING WORK
Sensor A Connection interrupted
Sensor B Eligible · accepting reassigned work
Ownership lease Safe reassignment
Detect Heartbeat & collection health
Reassign Eligible pool + headroom
Continue Replay buffered evidence
One owner for each assigned job

Fencing prevents the old assignment from continuing after ownership moves.

Controlled
Useful degradation remains visible

Receiver changes, backlog and unreachable targets remain diagnosable.

Transparent
Illustrative scenario. Figures and events use sample data.

The capability in detail

High Availability & Resilience capabilities

01

Exactly two Cores. One active authority.

The HA deployment uses two full Core nodes: one Active and one Standby. Both carry the required Core software and state, while a single active authority keeps policy, incidents and operational decisions consistent.

02

A stable endpoint through failover

Users, Sensors and Agents connect through the stable Core HA endpoint. When the active node changes, clients reconnect through the same endpoint without manually updating every Sensor or Agent configuration.

03

Controlled failover and state synchronization

Synchronize the required persistent state between the Core pair and promote the standby only after the active peer is safely considered failed or fenced. When failure is ambiguous, prevent conflicting active authorities instead of forcing an unsafe promotion.

04

Sensor pools sized for resilience

Choose N+1, N+2, N+K, a dedicated 1:1 arrangement or active-active pooled Sensor capacity to fit the estate. Reserve enough eligible capacity to absorb the intended failure within each reachable site or locality.

05

Collection continues near the estate

Sensors retain the policy and assignment state needed to continue current authorized collection during temporary Core or WAN interruption. Local queues and storage protection make the available continuity window visible.

06

Safe reassignment and controlled replay

Keep assignment ownership explicit when work moves between Sensors. Reconnect, preserve telemetry sequence identity and replay unacknowledged data with duplicate-aware processing so recovery does not create conflicting work or misleading counts.

07

Operational health beyond an up/down light

Inspect the active Core, standby readiness, synchronization lag, failover reason and history, Sensor headroom, queue age and telemetry freshness. Distinguish a collection-path problem from a failure of the monitored service.

08

Disaster recovery as a separate discipline

Protect against wider site loss with backup, restore, recovery readiness, documented runbooks and verification. Define the recovery objectives and activation process for your deployment alongside the HA and Sensor-pool design.

From information to action

A connected operational workflow.

  1. 01

    Map the failure domains

    Identify the Core deployment, independently reachable sites, critical workloads and recovery requirements.

  2. 02

    Reserve resilient capacity

    Configure the Active/Standby Core pair and the appropriate Sensor-pool redundancy with usable headroom.

  3. 03

    Preserve authority and collection

    Keep one active Core authority, continue eligible local monitoring and reassign work under controlled ownership.

  4. 04

    Recover and verify the evidence

    Reconnect, replay buffered telemetry, review freshness and validate the service and recovery record.

Choose resilience for your failure domains

Fit the way your team operates.

Core high availability, Sensor-pool redundancy and disaster recovery solve different operational problems. Combine them according to the locations, access paths and recovery requirements of your deployment.

  • Core HA is exactly two full nodes in Active/Standby. Active-active describes supported pooled Sensor capacity, not simultaneous active Core authorities.
  • Redundancy is evaluated within each independently reachable locality. A spare elsewhere cannot protect an isolated site it cannot access.
  • Failover capacity must remain eligible by role, network reachability, credentials, policy and available resources. Spare hardware alone is not sufficient.
  • Local buffering depends on available capacity. Contractual recovery times, recovery-point objectives and availability commitments belong in the agreed deployment and service terms.

What makes collection and recovery resilient?

Is the Core HA architecture Active/Active?

No. The Core pair has exactly one Active and one Standby. Active-active pooled collection applies to Sensors. Keeping these distinct preserves one authoritative control plane while allowing monitoring capacity to be distributed.

Do we need a third full Core node?

No. The standard HA topology is two full Core nodes. The design maintains one active authority and uses controlled state synchronization, failure handling and promotion within that topology.

How should we choose N+1 or N+K Sensor redundancy?

Start with the eligible capacity required for the normal workload in each reachable pool. Add the spare capacity needed for the failures you want to absorb, accounting for collection role, network access, credentials, workload and maintenance. A global spare does not automatically cover isolated sites.

Will monitoring stop while the Core fails over?

Sensors continue current authorized polling while local resources remain available. They buffer telemetry and reconnect through the stable Core endpoint. Central UI and control-plane access follow the failover process, and the visible queue and freshness state show the recovery progress.

What happens if the Core pair cannot safely determine which node should be active?

The system prioritizes preventing two authoritative active Cores. An ambiguous partition can delay promotion while the failure is resolved, preserving consistent ownership and avoiding conflicting operational decisions.

Does high availability replace disaster recovery?

No. Core HA addresses the supported component-failure scenarios within its deployment. Wider site loss needs the separate backup, restore, readiness and recovery plan, with objectives agreed for your environment.

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