Use the Resources tab in the Cloud App Management
console to get a comprehensive status overview of
your microservice-based applications and dynamic workloads that are running in your managed
environment. You can drill down to in-depth metrics and adjust the time range to review conditions
at the time of an event.
Before you begin
For any resource that you want to monitor, you must define an incoming event source before you
can view data samples and respond to events in the Cloud App Management
console. Configure your incoming event source
integrations for your Cloud App
Management agents or
data collectors and any Application Performance Management V8 or IBM®
Tivoli® Monitoring V6 agents that you want to monitor in the Cloud App Management
console.
Procedure
Complete the following steps in the Cloud App Management
console to locate and monitor resources across your
environment.
-
Click the Resources tab.
- To locate the resources that you want to monitor, complete one
of the following steps on the Resource groups page.
- Search for a resource group or a resource type: In the Search box, enter any text to search. For
example, enter "db". All resource groups and resource types with "db" are shown. Select the resource
group or type by clicking the link under the Name column.
- Favorites pack: From your favorite resource groups pack, select the
resource group and drill down to your resources.
- All resource groups area: From the list of all resource groups, select
the resource group and drill down to your resources.
- All resource types area: You can find your resource when you know its
resource type. Click the link for your specific resource type under the Name
column.
A list of available resources and their type are displayed.
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Drill down the resource metrics for a particular resource by clicking the resource link under
the Resource column or searching for the resource in the Search box. You can
also open the resource dashboard from
, click the
See more info button, and click the link in the URLs section. For more
information about the resource dashboard widgets, see Resource dashboard.
Use the following table to understand the Resource table columns and actions on the
Resources page.
| Resource item |
Description |
| RESOURCE |
A link to the Resource dashboard where you can drill down to view
the metrics and dashboards that are associated with the resource. |
| TYPE |
The type of resource, for example, LinuxOS. Predefined groups are type: System Defined. A
predefined group exists for every type of agent that you installed in your environment. Custom
groups that you or others in your environment define are type: User Defined. |
| ACTIONS
|
Open and close actions by clicking the three dot icon on the Resource table. You can inspect a
resource, view thresholds, and edit a resource.
- To drill down into the metrics for a particular resource, click
Inspect.
- Click the Thresholds icon to view the thresholds that are created for the
resource. For example, you might want to view the thresholds if you are monitoring a resource and
you notice that a threshold is breached or a resource is encountering an issue. You can drill-down
to view the thresholds that are associated with the resource to troubleshoot the issues further. For
more information about the thresholds, see Managing thresholds.
- Click the Edit icon to edit a resource.
|
|
Resource Count
|
A drop-down list to display a set number of resources on the Resources page,
for example, 15, 25, or 50.
|