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Telemetry & Fleet Change Types

Telemetry and fleet change types deploy monitoring agents, manage services across fleets, and create observability resources.

CloudWatch (AWS)

Change Type Description Rollback
cloudwatch_alarm_create Create a CloudWatch alarm with configured metric, threshold, and actions Delete the alarm
cloudwatch_alarm_delete Delete a CloudWatch alarm Recreate the alarm

Connector: AWS

Telemetry Agent Deploy

Change type: telemetry_agent_deploy

Deploy a telemetry or monitoring agent (CloudWatch Agent, Datadog Agent, etc.) to a managed host via the Nexplane Agent.

Connector: Nexplane Agent

Remote Command

Change type: remote_command

Execute a pre-approved command template on a managed host. Only commands defined in the allow-list for the connector can be executed — freeform shell is blocked unconditionally.

Connector: Nexplane Agent or SSH

Fleet Operations

Change Type Description
rolling_restart Restart a service across a fleet N hosts at a time, with health checks between batches and an abort threshold
canary_config_push Push a config to one host, verify, then roll to the rest
distribute_file Push a file to all hosts in a fleet
fleet_health_check Run a health check (disk, load, service status, pending-reboot) across a fleet before major operations

Connector: Nexplane Agent (fleet package)

See Fleet Operations for full details on batch control and abort thresholds.