Eliminate costly errors and improve your compliance by establishing best practices and automating enterprise standards and access controls. Use metrics and KPIs to measure and improve your organization’s use and reuse of event streams.
Built-in Best Practices
Event Portal balances developers’ freedom to innovate with the platform teams’ need for control and consistency. It guides application teams toward best practices from the start while giving infrastructure team confidence that standards are being followed.
Role-Based Access Controls
With role-based access control in Solace Event Portal, you can manage user access to application domains and operational environments based on roles and responsibilities. This ensures sensitive resources are protected and users only see what they need. Administrators can easily add or modify user roles, simplifying permission management while maintaining security and compliance.
Design-First Approach
Bring clarity to your system by assigning a domain to each functional area or development team in your organization. This breaks your larger enterprise into manageable parts and improves ownership, access control, and focus.
Enterprise-Wide Naming Standards
Establishing enterprise-wide naming standards provide clarity and consistency across all applications and events. Clear abbreviations, naming patterns, and ownership reduce ambiguity and misinterpretation and make designs easier to understand, maintain, and govern.
Custom Attributes
Custom attributes add business and operational context to events, schemas and applications. They support tagging sensitive data, improve search and filtering, and help enforce governance consistently across designs.
Control Access to Events
Assign approvers to control who can access and consume events. Deployment promotion workflows extend this governance model to runtime configuration changes, ensuring designs move safely from development to production with built-in approvals. These practices improve transparency, consistency, and compliance across environments.
Know the Current State of your Environments
Once best practices are established, Event Portal’s audit capability helps ensure environments stay aligned. It compares broker configurations with design intent, detects discrepancies, and allows users to import changes back into Event Portal. This provides confidence that runtime systems match approved designs.
Measure and Improve the Efficiency of your Event-Driven System
After governance is in place, metrics help measure its impact. When it comes to achieving clear returns on investments on event-driven systems, the most common questions are: which events are reused the most? Which events are neglected? And are we maximizing event reuse, or are we merely creating point-to-point connections?
API management introduced the concept of measuring API reuse via a valuable key performance indicator (KPI) called the reuse index. Event Portal includes the Reuse Index KPI to show how often events are reused across applications and domains. A higher reuse index indicates a healthier event-driven architecture and better return on investment.
Stakeholders must focus on increasing the reuse index as evidence that events are effectively utilized, whether discovered through developer portals or the Solace Event Portal, showcasing tangible returns from their event-driven system. Digging deeper, developers can analyze usage patterns of individual events across domains and broker types, empowering informed decisions on optimizing event exposure and documentation strategies to enhance overall effectiveness.
Solace Event Portal offers a comprehensive solution to automate governance at both design time and runtime, addressing critical challenges faced by organizations in managing their event streaming assets. It not only enhances compliance and transparency but also fosters continuous improvement in event-driven architectures.
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