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IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation is a platform for developing and managing containerized applications. The supported platforms enable business continuity, minimizes downtime, and automates recovery as much as possible.

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The OpenShift web console is a user interface accessible from a web browser. The web console runs as a pod on the master nodes of your cluster. The console is a convenient way to manage and monitor applications. Although CLI can be used to manage the lifecycle of applications, the web console presents several extra benefits. The console monitors the state of a deployment, pod, service, and other resources, and provides information about system-wide events. The cluster overview page (Home > Overview) displays and provides a high-level view of your cluster including an inventory, status, utilization, and recent events.

The OpenShift metrics subsystem enables the capture and long-term storage of performance metrics for an OpenShift cluster. Metrics are collected for nodes and for all containers that are running in each node. The metrics subsystem is deployed as a set of open source-based containers. In addition to the open source containers, OpenShift is pre-configured with a monitoring stack that uses the Prometheus UI. It provides monitoring of cluster components and a set of alerts to immediately notify the cluster administrator about any occurring problems and a set of Grafana dashboards.