Installing monitors for IBM Software Hub

By default, IBM Software Hub includes a platform monitor that you can use to monitor the health of the deployment. However, you can install additional monitors to provide more detailed information about your environment.

About this task

The following events are included in the platform monitor and are automatically available when you install IBM Software Hub:
Service status check
Checks the status of the pods, service instances, and monitor events that are associated with a service.
Service instance status check
Checks whether the service instance is running by checking the status of the pods that comprise the service instance.
Deployment status check
Checks whether a service has the required number of Deployment replicas.
StatefulSet status check
Checks whether a service has the required number of StatefulSet replicas.
PVC status check
Checks that each persistent volume claim is bound to a storage volume.
Quota status check
Checks that a service has sufficient resources to fulfill requests when vCPU and memory quotas are set on the platform or on the service.
Monitor status check
Checks that the other monitors ran successfully.

In addition to the platform monitors, you can install:

Monitors Description Who can install the monitors?
Service monitors These monitors give you insight into the health of the services that are running on top of IBM Software Hub. Instance administrator An instance administrator can install the service monitors.
Privileged monitors These monitors give you insight into:
  • Whether the nodes on the cluster are ready
  • Whether the nodes on the cluster are using too many resources
  • Whether the persistent volume claims associated with the deployment are running out of space.
  • Whether the resources in the operators project for the deployment are healthy.
  • Whether any instances of EDB Postgres that are associated with the deployment are healthy. For example, whether the database that IBM Software Hub uses to store metadata for the deployment is healthy.
  • Whether the cluster is imbalanced because one node is supporting a disproportionately high load.
 Cluster administrator A cluster administrator must install the privileged monitors.

Procedure

Complete the appropriate tasks based on the monitors that you want to install.