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Working with metrics in a region where IBM Cloud Metrics Routing is not available

Working with metrics in a region where IBM Cloud Metrics Routing is not available

In IBM Cloud, platform metrics that are generated by IBM Cloud services in a region, location, or datacenter where the IBM Cloud Metrics Routing service is not available might be managed through a different region.

You can monitor metrics in your account for example, for DevOps or troubleshooting. Services that generate platform metrics in a location where the IBM Cloud Metrics Routing service is not available can send metrics to a different region where the IBM Cloud Metrics Routing service is available. You can monitor what is happening in the IBM Cloud for that service at all times.

Flow of metrics between regions
Platform metrics flow that are generated by IBM Cloud services in a region, location, or datacenter where the IBM Cloud Metrics Routing service is not available can be managed through a different region

Understanding platform metrics

IBM Cloud Monitoring provides dashboards that allow you to gain operational visibility into the performance and health of your applications, services and platforms. You can monitor and troubleshoot issues and define alerts based on specific operational criteria. You can also create custom dashboards to meet your organization's needs.

Platform metrics are metrics that are generated by IBM Cloud services. By default, platform metrics are available through the IBM Cloud Monitoring instance that is available in the same region where the service that generates it is available. However, you can use IBM Cloud Metrics Routing to provide additional flexibility and route platform metrics to configured IBM Cloud Monitoring instances based on defined rules.

Each IBM Cloud service documents the metrics that it sends to IBM Cloud Metrics Routing. See Service generating metrics for information on the services sending metrics and the type of metrics that are sent.

How can you identify data from the Madrid location?

Platform metrics include the field ibm-location that specifies the region, location, or datacenter where the resource is available. For example, for Madrid, you can see the location of metrics set to eu-es.

Services that operate in new regions

Select services that are available in the Madrid region send platform metrics that you can manage with the IBM Cloud Metrics Routing service to the Frankfurt (EU-DE) region.

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