Capabilities
Agent and data collector capabilities vary depending on your offering. The key agent and data collector capabilities are resource monitoring, transaction tracking, and diagnostics. You can purchase any of the offerings and add-ons in the IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management solution. Specific offerings are required for add-ons.
Each agent and data collector monitors the resources for which the agent or the data collector is named, for example, the Monitoring Agent for Cisco UCS monitors Cisco UCS resources.
Depending on whether you are a developer, in operations, or a line-of-business
owner, you use different Cloud
APM capabilities.
- Resource monitoring capability includes response time monitoring, application resource monitoring, and infrastructure resource monitoring. All agents and data collectors can provide resource monitoring capability.
- Transaction tracking capability provides transaction instance and topology information.
- Diagnostics capability includes tracing and analyzing individual requests, and when necessary, method calls.
Remember: The resource monitoring capability is common to all offerings and
add-ons. The diagnostics and transaction tracking capabilities are available only in the Cloud APM, Advanced Private
offering and add-ons.
The agents and data collectors for the applications that you want to monitor are available for download from Passport Advantage®. The agents take minutes to install. The data collectors require no installation, and you need to only configure them after the download completes. For instructions about installing the agents, see Installing your agents.
Table 1 provides a comprehensive list of the agents and data collectors, shows which
offering or add-on contains the agent or data collector, and shows the capabilities of the agent or
data collector. When add-ons (such as Infrastructure Extension Pack) are noted for an agent
or a data collector, they are required. Agents and data collectors that support transaction
tracking and/or diagnostics capabilities are also noted in the Cloud APM, Advanced Private column.
indicates the agent or data collector is available in the offering and can provide resource
monitoring capability.
indicates the data or capability is not available in this offering, or the add-on is not
required for the agent or data collector.- TT indicates transaction tracking.
- DD indicates diagnostics.
| Agents and data collectors | Cloud APM, Base Private | Cloud APM, Advanced Private | Add-on (if required) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon EC2 agent |
|
|
Infrastructure Extension Pack |
| Amazon ELB agent |
|
|
Infrastructure Extension Pack |
| Azure Compute agent |
|
|
Infrastructure Extension Pack |
| Cassandra agent |
|
|
Base Extension Pack |
| Cisco UCS agent | |
|
|
| Citrix VDI agent |
|
|
Infrastructure Extension Pack |
| Db2® agent | |
|
|
| DataPower® agent | |
TT |
|
| DataStage® agent | |
|
Base Extension Pack |
| Hadoop agent |
|
|
Base Extension Pack |
| HMC Base agent | |
|
|
| HTTP Server agent | |
TT |
|
| IBM Cloud agent |
|
|
Infrastructure Extension Pack |
| IBM Integration Bus agent | |
|
|
| IBM i OS agent | |
|
|
| Internet Service Monitoring | |
|
Base Extension Pack |
| J2SE data collector for on-premises applications | |
TT DD |
|
| JBoss® agent | |
TT DD |
|
| Liberty data collector for IBM Cloud and on-premises applications | |
TT DD |
|
| Linux® KVM agent | |
|
|
| Linux OS agent | |
|
|
| Microsoft Active Directory agent | |
|
|
| Microsoft Cluster Server agent | |
|
|
| Microsoft Exchange Server agent | |
|
|
| Microsoft Hyper-V Server agent | |
|
|
| Microsoft IIS agent | |
|
|
| Microsoft .NET agent | |
TT DD |
|
| Microsoft Office 365 agent |
|
|
Base Extension Pack |
| Microsoft SharePoint Server agent | |
|
|
| Microsoft SQL Server agent | |
|
|
| MongoDB agent | |
|
|
| MQ Appliance agent | |
|
|
| MySQL agent | |
|
|
| NetApp Storage agent | |
|
|
| Node.js agent | |
DD |
|
| Node.js data collector for IBM Cloud and on-premises applications | |
TT DD |
|
| OpenStack agent | |
|
|
| Oracle Database agent | |
|
|
| PHP agent | |
|
|
| PostgreSQL agent | |
|
|
| Python data collector for IBM Cloud and on-premises applications | |
DD |
|
| RabbitMQ agent | |
|
Advanced Extension Pack |
| Response Time Monitoring Agent | |
TT |
|
| Ruby agent | |
DD |
|
| Ruby data collector for IBM Cloud applications | |
DD |
|
| SAP agent | |
|
|
| SAP HANA Database agent | |
|
Advanced Extension Pack |
| SAP NetWeaver Java™ Stack agent | |
|
Advanced Extension Pack |
| Siebel agent | |
|
|
| Skype for Business Server agent
(formerly known as Microsoft Lync Server agent) |
|
|
|
| Sterling Connect Direct agent |
|
|
Base Extension Pack |
| Sterling File Gateway agent |
|
|
Base Extension Pack |
| Sybase agent |
|
|
|
| Synthetic Playback agent | |
|
|
| Tomcat agent | |
TT |
|
| UNIX OS agent | |
|
|
| VMware VI agent | |
|
|
| WebLogic agent | |
TT DD |
|
| WebSphere® Applications agent | |
TT DD |
|
| WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent | |
|
|
| WebSphere MQ agent | |
TT |
|
| Windows OS agent | |
|
|
For more information about whether transaction tracking or diagnostics is enabled by default for
the agent or data collector, see Transaction tracking enablement
for agents and data collectors table. For information about the predefined diagnostics
dashboards, see Diagnostics dashboards of agents and data collectors.