Extensions and 3rd Party Integrations

dbWatch Control Center supports integrations with a variety of third-party tools to enable custom automation, alerting, data sharing, and ticketing workflows. These capabilities can enhance your operational processes and connect dbWatch insights to your broader infrastructure.

Available Integration Methods

There are several methods for integrating dbWatch Control Center with external systems:

Email Alerts via SMTP — send alerts to email addresses, distribution lists, or tools like ServiceNow that support inbound email processing.
Web Data Export — publish any custom dataset (including alerts or metrics) via the embedded web server as CSV or JSON.
Command-line Scripting (CCC) — extract and export data or automate actions using the CCC scripting tool.
Webhooks (Custom) — dbWatch’s web server can be extended to trigger webhooks, with support provided for configuration.

Email Alerts and Custom Rules

The email extension provides flexible alerting capabilities using SMTP. In addition to sending alerts, it allows customization of:

Message formatting
Alert severity filtering
Rule-specific triggers and routing

This customization is especially useful for integrating with incident management platforms such as ServiceNow.

Exporting Data via Web Server

You can use the built-in web server to expose dbWatch datasets and job results for external consumption. This supports:

Custom datasets and reports
Export formats: CSV or JSON
Use cases: dashboards, data lake ingestion, external reporting

The default formats are ready-to-use, but output structure can also be customized to fit specific formats or schemas required by other systems. This customization requires coordination with the dbWatch support team.

Learn more:

Exporting Data Tutorial

Scripting Integration with CCC Tool

The CCC (Control Center Console) command-line tool allows scripted access to dbWatch systems. Common use cases include:

Extracting job results and metrics
Scheduling data exports
Automating interactions

Learn more:

CCC Tool Overview

Webhook Integration (Custom)

dbWatch includes a built-in web server that can be extended to allow external webhooks to allow for custom logic. This feature is not enabled by default and must be configured with support assistance.

Use cases include:

Triggering workflows on the databases based on external input
Integration with observability or incident tools

To set up webhook-based integration, contact support@dbwatch.com.

Integration Scenarios and Examples

Here are example integrations and customization use cases:

Related Resources

Support and Compatibility

For help configuring any of the integrations above or validating compatibility with your version of dbWatch, contact:

support@dbwatch.com

We also offer templates, examples, and assistance in setting up new integrations.