IBM Cloud Product Insights overview
IBM® Cloud Product Insights is a service that is part of IBM Cloud. The Product Insights service integrates with your IBM software products, such as IBM Integration Bus, to gather and display runtime product information and usage metrics.
Ensure that your version and fix pack level of IBM Integration Bus is compatible with the level of the Product Insights service before you enable IBM Integration Bus to connect to it.
You can use the Product Insights service to:
- Register on-premise IBM software products with an IBM Cloud service.
- Gather product information and usage data from enabled and configured on-premise software, such as IBM Integration Bus.
- View information about all enabled and configured products through a single centralized dashboard in IBM Cloud.
- Gain a greater insight into the workload of the enabled and configured products, by accessing the runtime usage data.
- Group instances of enabled and configured products to reflect their usage, and view aggregated runtime usage data. For example, you can group IBM Integration Bus integration servers based on whether they are used for test, staging, or production.
The Product Insights service, including the service dashboard, runs in IBM Cloud and receives information from enabled on-premise IBM software products. This information is then displayed in the service instance dashboard.
- Create at least one service instance within IBM Cloud of the Product Insights service.
- Configure your on-premise IBM Integration Bus installation, and provide the required credentials for connecting to the Product Insights service. These credentials ensure that your data is stored securely and is accessible only to you through your IBM Cloud account.
- Configuring the IBM Cloud Product Insights service
- Configuring an integration server to send startup and usage information to IBM Cloud Product Insights
- Configuring a connection to IBM Cloud Product Insights through an HTTP proxy server
- Configuring a connection to IBM Cloud Product Insights through a gateway
For more information about Product Insights, see the IBM Cloud Product Insights documentation.