Group and Instance - Application Performance Dashboard

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 other navigator sections and the banner elements, see All My Applications - Application Performance Dashboard.

Status Overview

Groups and subgroups

• Select a group or 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:

  Transactions

  This group includes End User Transactions and Synthetic Transactions subgroups.

  Components

  This group is displayed for all applications, with the exception of the Response Time Monitoring Agent. When Components is selected, you can change the widget thresholds and other aspects of the dashboard as described in Editing the Components dashboard group widgets.

  The Components has a subgroup for each monitored software component that supports the selected application.

  Note: The Synthetic Playback agent has a predefined application called My Transactions, which opens to the Synthetic Transactions subgroup dashboard page. From here you can drill down to the transaction instance level.
• After you select Components or a component subgroup from the Groups section, the Status Overview tab changes to show a summary dashboard with a group widget for each managed resource. A domain icon in the title indicates the source domain of the managed system: IBM® Cloud (IBM Cloud), Cloud (IBM Performance Management on Cloud) or On Premises (IBM Performance Management), and ITM (IBM Tivoli® Monitoring). No icon is shown for Other (managed resource is from another domain). The Instances section is renamed for the subgroup title and is populated with the individual instance names.
  

  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 filter field 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. You can select Pause before or after opening an Instance-level dashboard page or creating a view in the Attribute Details tab. When you pause the refresh before opening the dashboard page or creating a chart or table, the view is populated with the data samples that were available before you clicked Pause.
• The widgets 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 the KPIs when no data is available for a widget. 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 widget.
• 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.
  Note: 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.
  
• IBM Application Diagnostics 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 Performance Management domain. If the managed system resides in the IBM Cloud or IBM Tivoli Monitoring source domain, the diagnostics dashboards are not available. See also Performance Management agent and Tivoli Monitoring agent coexistence.
• If your environment includes the Synthetic Playback agent, you can launch Performance Management reports for the agent instance from the Actions menu.

Events

• The status indicator that is displayed next to the Events tab title shows the highest event severity for the selected navigator item (application, group, subgroup, or instance). Threshold severities are consolidated, as shown in the following table. For example, Events 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 , to notify you that at least one anomaly has been detected by Operations Analytics - Predictive Insights. For example, Events , 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.

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 to select a different saved page from My Pages or Shared Pages.
• 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.