Near real-time feed manager for data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) using custom tags for infrastructure assets

A data center infrastructure monitoring system configured to:

• monitor a plurality of physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within the data center for a plurality of events;
• apply one or more custom tags to the plurality of physical infrastructure assets, wherein each of the one or more custom tags is associated with a particular customer of the data center and specifies one or more attributes of the plurality of physical infrastructure assets;
• receive a subscription request to event data for a topic to which the data center infrastructure monitoring system publishes event data for the plurality of physical infrastructure assets to which the one or more custom tags are applied;
• and
• publish, to a subscription application programming interface, the event data for the topic.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors executing a data center infrastructure monitoring system to:

• receive one or more custom tag rules, wherein a custom tag rule application programming interface defines the one or more custom tag rules in response to input from a customer, and wherein each of the one or more custom tag rules specifies a custom tag of the one or more custom tags and a rule for applying the custom tag to assets of a plurality of physical infrastructure assets;
• apply, based on the one or more custom tag rules, the one or more custom tags to the plurality of physical infrastructure assets;
• receive a subscription request to event data for a topic to which the data center infrastructure monitoring system publishes event data for the plurality of physical infrastructure assets to which the one or more custom tags are applied;
• and
• publish, to a subscription application programming interface, the event data for the topic.