Monitoring and managing your service

You can edit your configuration or monitor your service performance by clicking the load balancer name in the load balancer summary page.

The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) address of your load balancer instance can be seen by clicking Details. Your users are able to connect to your application by using this FQDN address.

The public and private IP addresses of the load balancer service aren't exposed to the outside world, whereas the FQDN address is exposed.

The Details list also displays the type, location, and logging enablement of the load balancer.

The Overview tab on the left of the page provides high-level information about your service. It displays the current health of your application servers and their ports, and also provides a quick summary of system performance - throughput, connection rate, and concurrent connections.

If you already set up your IBM Cloud Monitoring instance, you can select the Launch monitoring button in the Monitoring section to view real-time charts of your system performance. You can view these graphs per individual application port and for various time durations. To work with the IBM Cloud Monitoring dashboard, follow these instructions.

If you haven't already set up your IBM Cloud Monitoring instance, you can select the Configure monitoring button in the Monitoring section. Follow these instructions to enable metric monitoring.

You can edit your existing configuration by using the Protocols, Server Instances, and Health Checks tabs. For example, the Protocols tab can be used to define extra application ports or to customize the SSL cipher lists when an existing HTTPS protocol exists.

After every configuration change, the load balancer goes into an UPDATE PENDING state. In this state, datapath traffic is not affected, but no further updates can be made to that load balancer. Click the refresh button next to the load balancer's state to check the latest status.

You can also use the Layer 7 tab to configure Layer 7 load balancing.