Architecture

Smart proxy is the only external data pipeline service that is exposed directly to clients through cloud.redhat.com and also through console.redhat.com using indirection mechanism.

This service is able to provide an interface to other services as well as composing responses aggregating data from different services.

As an example of the first one, the groups endpoint will act as a proxy to the Content Service. But for example when asking for a cluster’s latest report, Smart Proxy retrieves the report from Aggregator service, and if some rules are hit, then it takes the content for those rules from the Content Service.

Insights Results Smart Proxy has 3 main parts:

1. An Insights Results Aggregator client, that sends requests to the API in order to retrieve reports or other relevant info for the given cluster.
2. An Insights Content Service client, that retrieve groups and static content for rules values from that service.
3. A HTTP server that serve the current API, attending each request and using the previous clients in order to get the information from the relevant services.

Smart Proxy architecture