Group and Instance - Application Performance Dashboard

Use the dashboard for the selected application group, subgroup, or instance to get a high level status of your managed systems. You can drill down to detailed dashboards with metrics for the selected instance and create custom charts and tables.

After you select an application under All My Applications in the Application Performance Dashboard, the Status Overview and Events tabs are displayed.

The navigator Groups section lists one or more of several possible groups, depending on the constituents of the defined application.

For a description of the navigator and banner elements, see Navigator, Search, Actions, and Help.

Status Overview

Groups and subgroups
  • Select a group or icon expand a group and select a subgroup to see a summary group widget for each managed system in the application. After you select a subgroup, the summary group widgets in the Status Overview tab are specific to that subgroup.
  • The following predefined groups are available, depending on which monitoring products are installed:
    icon Availability Monitoring
    This group is displayed for custom applications. The navigation behavior for Availability Monitoring is different from the Components and Transactions groups.
    The Availability Monitoring add-on and dashboards are described in Availability Monitoring.
    icon Components
    This group is displayed for all applications, with the exception of the Response Time Monitoring Agent, the Synthetic Playback agent, and Availability Monitoring.
    The Components has a subgroup for each monitored software component that supports the selected application.
    icon Transactions
    This group includes End User Transactions and Synthetic Transactions (IBM Website Monitoring on Cloud before the August 2017 release) subgroups. For more information, see the help for Transaction Monitoring and the Synthetic Playback agent or their reference PDFs on the IBM Knowledge Center for Monitoring Agent Reference Guides.
    Note: The Transactions group is not available for the My Components application.
  • After you select Components or a subgroup from the Groups section, the Status Overview tab changes to show a summary dashboard with a group widget for each managed resource. The source environment shows as Cloud (IBM Cloud Application Performance Management), ITM (IBM Tivoli® Monitoring), On Premises (IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Private) , Private Cloud (IBM Cloud Private), or Public Cloud (IBM Cloud). The Instances section is renamed for the subgroup title and is populated with the individual instance names.
    Dashboard representation of Aggregate Transaction Topology view to show that you can click a node to open the summary dashboard for all components.

    If the application has many managed system instances, many group widgets are displayed. You can scroll through the list to seem them all. You can also select a managed system type from the list of component subgroups, such as Windows OS, to confine the display to the same managed system types. You can also filter the managed system instances.

    Firefox browser only: Depending on the number of agents and bandwidth, as you scroll down the Components page, you might see a pop-up message that the script to load the resource page takes a long time to complete. Select the option, Don't ask me again to disable the message and continue opening the widgets. Alternatively, you can enter about:config in the address box, search for dom.max_script_run_time and increase the time out value (in seconds). A value of 0 (zero) disables time out.

Instances
  • Click inside a group widget or select the instance name from the navigator to open a detailed dashboard for the managed resource.
  • If many instances are displayed in the navigator, use the search field Search text box in the Instances toolbar. As you type, any instances that do not match are removed from the display.
  • To pause the Application Performance Dashboard automatic refresh, click Pause in the Instances toolbar; to resume automatic refresh, click Resume.
  • The widgets and KPIs shown for any managed system might depend on the agent version. If an agent installed on the managed system is at an earlier version, it might be unable to provide as much information as the current version of the agent. A message is displayed instead of one or more KPIs in a chart or table when no data is available. The reason could be as simple as no data was reported for the time span. Or it could be related to a back-leveled agent that doesn't support the data set or an attribute included in the chart or table.
    To see a list of agent dashboards that were updated since the last Cloud APM server restart, select Actions > Dashboard Log.
  • Some of the dashboard widgets show metrics that are based on a time range, and other widgets show the most recent metrics. If a time selector bar is displayed, you can adjust the time range for the dashboard that affects any charts or tables whose values are derived from historical data samples. For more information, see Adjusting and comparing metrics over time.
    While viewing charts, you can click a plot point to open a tool tip with the plot point value and other pertinent information. After viewing a line chart in the Internet Explorer Version 11 browser, you might continue to see the tool tip appear as you move the cursor around the window. If you experience this behavior, you can close the tool tip by clicking a few times in the chart.
  • If you're viewing a chart with bars missing, it means that the value is 0 (zero) for that data point.
    DB2 Data transfers per second bar chart with no bar for disk sda1.
  • IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced users have additional diagnostics dashboards that are accessed by clicking the Diagnose link from a group widget in the details dashboard.
    Restriction: The managed system for which you are opening the diagnostics dashboards must reside in the IBM Cloud APM domain. If the managed system resides in the IBM Cloud or IBM Tivoli Monitoring source domain, the diagnostics dashboards are not available. See also Cloud APM agent and Tivoli Monitoring agent coexistence.
  • If your environment includes the Synthetic Playback agent, you can launch Cloud APM reports for the agent instance from the Actions menu.

Events

  • The status indicators that are displayed next to the Events tab title, such as Critical icon14 Warning icon 3, show a count of the highest event severities for the selected navigator item: application, group, subgroup, or instance. Threshold severities are consolidated, as shown in the following table. For example, Events Warning icon means that the highest severity event is minor or warning.
    Events tab Threshold Severity
    Critical Fatal and Critical
    Warning Minor and Warning
    Normal Unknown
    When your managed environment includes IBM Operations Analytics - Predictive Insights and an anomaly is detected, an event is opened. A diamond-shaped icon overlays the status indicator, such as Critical status with anomaly icon, to notify you that at least one anomaly has been detected by Operations Analytics - Predictive Insights. For example, Events Warning status with anomaly icon, indicates that the highest status event is Warning and that at least one anomaly event is open.
  • Click the Events tab to see a summary of the total event count, a count of each severity type, and a percentage gauge for the severities. For more information, see Event Status.

Custom Views

The pages that you create and save are associated with the selected application. For example, the Inventory Management application in the Cloud APM Guided Demo has the following monitoring agents: Linux® OS, MySQL, Node.js, Hadoop, and Ruby. You can create and save a custom page at any level of the navigator from application to instance and then open it at the same level where it was created. A page that is created at a particular level can be opened only at the same level. The metrics available for the widgets can be from any of the resources in the application. Using the Inventory Management example, you can create a page with a table from the Ruby agent, a chart from Linux OS agent, and so on.

  • The Custom Views tab is available at any level of the navigator when you select an application from All My Applications.
  • After you open the Custom Views tab, the Select a Template for your Custom Page window is displayed or the default page is displayed if it is already set.
    • In the Select a Template for your Custom Page window, you can select a template to create a page.
    • On the default page, you can click icon to create a new page.
  • On the default page, Click icon in the page list and select one of the saved pages from the list.
  • The options that you see in the Custom Views tab vary based on whether a page is being edited or viewed. For information about editing a page, see Creating and managing custom pages. For information about viewing a page, see Viewing custom pages.

Attribute Details

  • The Attribute Details tab is displayed after you select a component instance from the navigator Instances section (renamed to the selected subgroup name) or by clicking inside a summary group widget.
  • If chart or table pages have been saved for the agent, the most recently opened page is displayed with metrics from the selected component instance. Click the title arrow icon to select a different saved page from My Pagesarrow icon or Shared Pagesarrow icon.
  • You can edit the chart or table and click Preview Results to render the chart or table with the selected attributes. For more options, see Creating a custom chart or table page.