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# IBM Cloud Monitoring

IBM Cloud Monitoring is a cloud-native, and container-intelligence management system that you can include as part of your IBM Cloud architecture. Use it to gain operational visibility into the performance and health of your applications, services, and platforms.

## Get started

- [Getting started with IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-getting-started&format=markdown)
- About
   - [Monitoring in IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-about-monitor&format=markdown)
   - [Collecting metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-about-collect-metrics&format=markdown)
   - [Metrics and time-series](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-about-timeseries&format=markdown)
   - [Viewing metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-monitoring&format=markdown)
   - [Working with alerts and events](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alerts&format=markdown)
   - [Features](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-features&format=markdown)
- Monitoring IBM Cloud services
   - [Enabling platform metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-platform_metrics_enabling&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring platform metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-platform_metrics_working&format=markdown)
   - [Services generating metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-cloud_services&format=markdown)
   - [Services generating metrics by location](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-cloud_services_locations&format=markdown)
- Monitoring infrastructure
   - [Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-kubernetes_cluster&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring a Red Hat OpenShift cluster](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-openshift_cluster&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring a Windows environment](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-windows&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring a Linux VPC instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-ubuntu&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring a Linux host on PowerVS](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-powervs&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring a Linux baremetal server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-baremetal_linux&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring Nvidia GPUs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-nvidia-gpu-monitoring&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring a VMware deployment](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-vmware-vcenter&format=markdown)
- Collecting Prometheus metrics
   - [Metrics via Prometheus remote-write](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-prometheus_remote_write&format=markdown)
   - [Metrics via Prometheus exporters](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-prometheus-exporters&format=markdown)
   - [Collecting availability metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-blackbox&format=markdown)
   - [Collecting IPMI device sensor metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-ipmi&format=markdown)
   - [Prometheus native metrics](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/docs/sysdig-monitor/integrations-for-sysdig-monitor/collect-prometheus-metrics/)
   - [StatsD metrics](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/docs/sysdig-monitor/integrations-for-sysdig-monitor/integrate-statsd-metrics/)
   - [JMX metrics](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/docs/sysdig-monitor/integrations-for-sysdig-monitor/integrate-jmx-metrics-from-java-virtual-machines/)
   - [Node.js application metrics](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/docs/sysdig-monitor/integrations-for-sysdig-monitor/integrate-node.js-application-metrics/)
- [Streaming metrics to Kafka](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-data_streaming&format=markdown)
- [Centralizing metrics to another IBM Cloud Monitoring instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-data-streaming-central-dashboarding&format=markdown)
- Sending notifications
   - [Sending email notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-tutorial-en&format=markdown)
   - [Sending SMS notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-tutorial-en-sms&format=markdown)
- [Identifying software vulnerabilities](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-workoad-protection&format=markdown)
- Release notes
   - [Release notes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-monitoring-release-notes&format=markdown)
   - [Notifications about functional changes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-releasenotes_notif&format=markdown)

## How to

- Managing instances
   - [Provisioning an instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-provision&format=markdown)
   - [Setting up Terraform for IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-terraform-setup&format=markdown)
   - [Configuring the authentication method of a Monitoring instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-iam_instance_auth&format=markdown)
   - [Removing an instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-remove&format=markdown)
   - [Changing the service plan of an instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-upgrade&format=markdown)
- Managing keys
   - [Managing access keys](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-access_key&format=markdown)
   - [Working with IAM tokens](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-api_token&format=markdown)
   - [Working with Monitor API tokens](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-api_monitoring_token&format=markdown)
- Controlling access
   - [Controlling access through IAM](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-iam&format=markdown)
   - [Granting permissions to work with the Monitoring service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-iam_grant&format=markdown)
   - [RBAC, teams, and IAM integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-iam_grant_team&format=markdown)
   - [Trusted profiles](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-trusted_profiles&format=markdown)
   - [Working with teams](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-teams&format=markdown)
   - [Getting the ID of a team](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-team_id&format=markdown)
- Enhancing security
   - [Protecting IBM Cloud Monitoring resources with context-based restrictions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-cbr&format=markdown)
   - [Managing data](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-mng-data&format=markdown)
   - Privately connecting to Monitoring
      - [Securing your connection](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-service-connection&format=markdown)
      - [Using virtual private endpoints](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-vpe-connection&format=markdown)
   - [Learning about IBM Cloud Monitoring architecture and workload isolation](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-compute-isolation&format=markdown)
- Observability
   - [Activity tracking events for IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-at_events&format=markdown)
- Monitoring resources
   - [Navigating to the web UI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-launch&format=markdown)
   - [Undocking the UI from the IBM Cloud UI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-undock&format=markdown)
   - [Getting the web UI URL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-get_monitoring_web_url&format=markdown)
   - [Using Explore](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/explore.html)
- Monitoring agent
   - [Listing agent versions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_version&format=markdown)
   - [Choosing an agent type by host](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent-types&format=markdown)
   - [Finding the agent version of a host](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_version_host&format=markdown)
   - [Checking custom time series collected by a host](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_ts_limits&format=markdown)
   - Orchestrated environments
      - [Listing agent image versions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-monitoring_agent_image&format=markdown)
      - [Kubernetes resource requirements](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-resource_requirements&format=markdown)
      - [Managing the Kubernetes agent by using Helm](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent-deploy-kube-helm&format=markdown)
      - [Managing the Red Hat OpenShift agent by using Helm](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent-deploy-openshift-helm&format=markdown)
      - [Managing non-IBM Cloud Kubernetes and Openshift clusters](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent-deploy-kube-helm&format=markdown)
      - [Customizing Kube agents](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-change_kube_agent&format=markdown)
   - Non-orchestrated environments
      - [Configuring Windows to send metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_windows&format=markdown)
      - [Managing the Linux agent](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_linux&format=markdown)
      - [Managing the Linux agent on PowerVS](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-linux_powervs&format=markdown)
      - [Deploying Linux agent with no public access](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_linux_1&format=markdown)
      - [Customizing Linux agents](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-change_linux_agent&format=markdown)
      - [Managing the agent by using Docker containers](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_docker&format=markdown)
      - [Customize a Docker containerized agent](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-change_agent&format=markdown)
   - [Configuring the log level](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_log_level&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring agent Release Notes](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/sysdig-agent-release-notes.html)
- Working with metrics
   - [Configuring which metrics to monitor](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-mng_metrics&format=markdown)
   - [Extracting metrics from a Monitoring instance by using the Monitoring API](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-metrics_api&format=markdown)
   - [Extracting metrics from an instance by using the Monitoring Python client](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-metrics_python&format=markdown)
   - [Using PromQL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-promql&format=markdown)
   - [Analyzing collected metrics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-metrics_usage&format=markdown)
   - [Metrics dictionary](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/metrics-dictionary.html)
   - [Working with metrics](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/metrics.html)
   - [Grouping, Scoping, and Segmenting Metrics](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/grouping,-scoping,-and-segmenting-metrics.html)
   - [Understanding Default, Custom, and Missing Metrics](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/understanding-default,-custom,-and-missing-metrics.html)
   - [Managing the Metric Scale](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/manage-metric-scale.html)
   - [Data Aggregation](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/data-aggregation.html)
   - [Metric Limits](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/metric-limits.html)
   - [Prometheus metrics / OpenMetrics code instrumentation](https://sysdig.com/blog/prometheus-metrics/)
- Working with metrics in non-supported locations
   - [Working with metrics before a region is available](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-manage-metrics-for-new-region&format=markdown)
   - [Working with metrics after a region is open for business](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-manage-metrics-to-new-region&format=markdown)
- Integrations
   - [Configure a Prometheus data source with Grafana](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/configure-sysdig-with-grafana.html)
- Dashboards
   - [Working with dashboards](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-dashboards&format=markdown)
   - [Advisor](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-advisors&format=markdown)
   - [Managing panels](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-panels&format=markdown)
   - [Managing dashboards by using the Python client](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-dashboard_python&format=markdown)
   - [Dashboard library](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/docs/sysdig-monitor/dashboards/dashboard-templates/)
- Working with alerts
   - Alert types
      - [Threshold alerts](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-metric&format=markdown)
      - [Change alerts](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-change&format=markdown)
      - [Downtime alerts](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-downtime&format=markdown)
      - [Event alerts](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-event&format=markdown)
      - [PromQL alerts](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-promql&format=markdown)
   - Configuring and managing alerts
      - [Configuring an alert by using the legacy alert editor](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-config-legacy&format=markdown)
      - [Configuring an alert by using the alert editor](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-config&format=markdown)
      - [Viewing and managing alerts](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-view&format=markdown)
      - [Alerts library](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-library&format=markdown)
      - [Silencing alerts](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert-silence&format=markdown)
   - [Managing alerts by using the Alerts API](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert_api&format=markdown)
   - [Managing alerts by using the Python client](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-alert_python&format=markdown)
   - [Extracting notifications from Monitoring to IBM Cloud Event Streams](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-metrics_sent_eventstreams&format=markdown)
   - [Working with notification channels](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-notifications&format=markdown)
   - [Managing notification by using the Monitoring API](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-notifications_api&format=markdown)
   - [Sending SMS alerts using PagerDuty](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-pd_sms&format=markdown)
   - [Sending email alerts by using IBM Cloud Event Notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-eventnotif&format=markdown)
   - [Sending SMS alerts by using IBM Cloud Event Notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-eventnotif_sms&format=markdown)
- Events
   - [Working with custom events](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/docs/sysdig-monitor/events/event-types/custom-events/)
- Captures
   - [Managing captures](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-captures&format=markdown)
   - [Working with captures](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/captures.html)

## Reference

- [Regions for IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-regions&format=markdown)
- [Endpoints](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-endpoints&format=markdown)
- [Service plans](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-service_plans&format=markdown)
- Pricing
   - [Pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-pricing_plans&format=markdown)
   - [Billing samples](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-billing_example&format=markdown)
- [Collecting metrics by infrastructure](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-collect-metrics-by-host&format=markdown)
- [Statement of support for agents and exporters](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-agent_support&format=markdown)
- [Understanding your responsibilities when using IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-shared-responsibilities&format=markdown)
- [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-monitoring-ha-dr&format=markdown)
- [Service dependencies](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-service-dependencies&format=markdown)
- [Data portability](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-data-portability&format=markdown)
- Monitoring CLI
   - [Monitoring (ibmcloud monitoring) CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-monitor-cli&format=markdown)
- Monitoring API
   - [Using cURL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-mon-curl&format=markdown)
   - [Using the Python client](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-python-client&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring API](https://{DomainName}/apidocs/monitor)
- Terraform
   - [Terraform information](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/sysdiglabs/sysdig/latest/docs)
   - [Terraform IBM Modules (TIM) for Cloud Monitoring](https://registry.terraform.io/modules/terraform-ibm-modules/cloud-monitoring/ibm/latest)
   - [Terraform IBM Modules (TIM) for Monitoring Agent](https://registry.terraform.io/modules/terraform-ibm-modules/monitoring-agent/ibm/latest)
- Prometheus
   - [Prometheus metrics / OpenMetrics code instrumentation](https://sysdig.com/blog/prometheus-metrics/)
- Metrics
   - [Metrics dictionary](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/metrics-dictionary.html)

## Help

- [Getting help and support](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-gettinghelp&format=markdown)
- [Troubleshooting for IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-troubleshoot&format=markdown)
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-faq&format=markdown)