Overview of Unified Agent

The Unified Agent supports receiving OpenTracing workloads including Jaeger and Zipkin, and provides plug-ins to monitor IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM MQ that are deployed in IBM® Cloud Private environment,NGINX and Redis workloads, and IBM API Connect. It also supports plug-ins to monitor OpenShift and DEM.

Unified Agent Architecture

Unified Agent is based on open source technology called Telegraf. The following picture shows the architecture of Unified Agent.
Unified Agent Architecture

Included plug-ins

  • Jaeger and Zipkin plug-in
  • NGINX plug-in
  • Redis plug-in
  • IBM API Connect(APIC) plug-in
  • IBM App Connect Enterprise(ACE) plug-in
  • IBM MQ plug-in
  • DEM plug-in
  • OpenShift plug-in