Create custom dashboards with IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management data

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To display Cloud APM data in the Dashboard Application Services Hub console, you can create custom dashboards.

Information about creating custom dashboards is in the Cloud APM and DASH configuration section of the Creating custom monitoring dashboards PDF file, available from the IBM-cloud-apm-samples github repository. General information about creating dashboards and adding widgets is in Working with dashboards or pages in the Jazz® for Service Management documentation.

When you create widgets with attributes from Cloud APM agents, you can see an agent’s attributes, but not all of them are available for display in the dashboard. If no data is displayed from an attribute in the widget, it might be because you specified an unsupported attribute or data set. To see a list of the attributes that are suitable for inclusion in the widget, complete the following steps. Log in to the Cloud APM console. Select Performance > Application Performance Dashboard. Drill down to the dashboard of an agent instance. Select the Attribute Details tab. To see which attributes are available, create a table with the data set that you intend to use in your Dashboard Application Services Hub widget.

The Cloud APM data provider can be used with the following Dashboard Application Services Hub widgets:
  • List widget
  • Simple table
  • Gauges:
    • Analog gauge
    • Status gauge
    • Volume bar value status gauge
  • Charts:
    • Bar
    • Column
    • Line
    • Pie
When configuring a DASH widget to retrieve Cloud APM metric data, a managed system name or system resource group identifier must be specified. When you specify a system resource group identifier for your DASH widget, the list of group members is displayed. Select the agents that you want to retrieve data from.
Note: Custom resource group names cannot be specified.

For the system resource group identifier, you cannot specify the name that you see in the Resource Group Manager. Instead, you must specify the internal identifier for the system resource group. To determine the system resource group identifier, use the Resource Group Management Service API to query for system resource groups. The system resource group identifier is in the keyIndexName field, which is returned by the API. For more information about the Resource Group Management Service API, see Using the Resource Group Management Service API.