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Managing serverless instances using the IBM Cloud console

Managing serverless instances using the IBM Cloud console

You can manage your severless instance by:

  • Changing configuration settings, for example, to include library add-ons or to configure instance home after you created the instance.
  • Monitoring the status of submitted applications and kernels created in the instance.

Console configuration tab

You can view and edit the current configuration settings for your IBM Analytics Engine serverless instance from the IBM Cloud® Resource list.

  1. Access the IBM Cloud® Resource list.

  2. Click Services and software, find your IBM Analytics Engine serverless instance and click the instance to see the details.

  3. Click Manage > Configuration to view:

    • The runtime. Currently, you can only select the Default Spark runtime which includes the geospatial, data skipping and Parquet encryption packages.

    • The instance home volume to add an instance home or change the access credentials of an existing instance home

      • You can set instance home after you created your IBM Analytics Engine serverless instance. Instance home must be associated with an IBM Cloud Object Storage instance. You can choose an instance:

        • In your account by selecting it from the list

        • From another account. For this instance, you need to enter:

          • The GUID of the IBM Cloud Object Storage instance
          • The endpoint
          • The region
          • The HMAC access and secret key

      • You can change the access credentials of an existing instance home volume. For this instance, you need to enter:

        • The new HMAC access and secret key

      For details on how to access Object Storage, see Using IBM Object Storage as the instance home volume.

    • The default Spark configuration options to override configuration settings.

      For a list of the default Spark configurations set for serverless instances, see Default Spark configurations.

Console applications tab

You can monitor the status of submitted applications in your IBM Analytics Engine serverless instance from the IBM Cloud® Resource list.

  1. Access your IBM Cloud® Resource list.

  2. Click Services and software, find the IBM Analytics Engine serverless instance and click the instance to see its details.

  3. Click Manage > Applications to list the submitted applications. You can:

    • Click the Filter icon on the action bar of the result list to narrow your search results to find applications by their status.
    • Click the Settings icon to customize the result list by adjusting the row height or the display columns.
    • Refresh the list

    By clicking the arrow to the left of an application ID in the result list, you are shown additional properties that are not included in any list columns, for example, the ID assigned to the application by Spark.

    By clicking the Action icon to the right of a selected application, you can:

    • Stop the application