Features

You can use IBM Cloud® Monitoring to monitor the performance and overall system health of your organization.

IBM Cloud Monitoring enables monitoring of cloud, Kubernetes and VM infrastructure, applications and services, including managed service for Prometheus. Monitor multi-cloud environments in a single dashboard using agents running on other clouds.

For Kubernetes, monitor status, health and performance of cluster, workloads and pods, prioritize issues with actionable insights from live logs and resources manifests with built-in remediation steps, and optimize resource utilization by understanding cluster capacity and right-sizing workloads.
Centralize Prometheus monitoring with Remote Write for scale and long term retention, and extend monitoring to hundreds of applications and services using Prometheus exporters or custom metrics.
Monitor IBM Cloud platform services with built-in metrics and dashboards.
Identify health and performance issues in bare metal hosts, IBM Cloud VSIs or other VMs, such as VMware, along with support for zLinux and Windows environments.
IBM Cloud Monitoring provides a single operational solution for workloads deployed in a multicloud environment by deploying agents to the resources deployed outside IBM Cloud and sending metrics back to the managed service.

Monitor and troubleshoot hosts running in IBM Cloud, outside IBM Cloud, or on-prem

For orchestrated environments, you can monitor the status, the health, and the performance of clusters, workloads, and pods.

For non-orchestrated environments, you can identify health and performance issues in baremetal hosts, IBM Cloud VSIs or other VMs such as VMware.

You can also monitor zLinux and Windows environments.

Optimize resource utilization by understanding the capacity of the host and sizing workloads accordingly.
Reduce risk by leveraging flexible permission management with IBM Cloud IAM and custom roles

Monitor and troubleshoot IBM Cloud services by monitoring Platform Metrics

Collect built-in metrics for resources and services on IBM Cloud.
Benefit from seamless integration for more than 30 IBM Cloud services with out-of-the-box dashboards and alerts.

Centralize your Prometheus monitoring with Remote Write for scale and long term retention

Extend monitoring to hundreds of applications and services by using Prometheus exporters or custom metrics.

Accelerate the diagnosis and resolution of performance incidents

IBM Cloud Monitoring offers deep visibility into your infrastructure and applications with the ability to troubleshoot from service level all the way down to the system level. Pre-defined dashboards and alerts simplify identification of potential threats or problems. By using IBM Cloud Monitoring, developers and DevOps teams monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in real-time, identify the source of errors, and eliminate problems.
Use queries in dashboards and alerts with the form query UI or enriched metrics PromQL.

Control the cost of your monitoring infrastructure

IBM Cloud Monitoring includes functionality that help you control the cost of your monitoring infrastructure in the IBM Cloud. You can configure the metric sources for which you want to monitor their performance.

Get critical Kubernetes and container insights for dynamic microservice monitoring

IBM Cloud Monitoring auto-discovers Kubernetes environments providing out-of-the-box dashboards and alerts for clusters, nodes, namespaces, services, deployments, pods and more. A single agent per node dynamically discovers all microservices and auto-collects metrics and events from various sources including Kubernetes, hosts, networks, containers, processes, applications and custom metrics like Prometheus, JMX, and StatsD.

Mitigate the impact of abnormal situations with proactive notifications

IBM Cloud Monitoring includes alerts and multi-channel notifications that you can use to reduce the impact on your day to day operations and accelerate your reaction and response time to anomalies, downtime, and performance degradation. Notification channels that you can easily configure such as email, slack, PagerDuty, or Webhooks.

Identify software vulnerabilities

Use the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection service to find and prioritize software vulnerabilities, detect and respond to threats, and manage configurations, permissions and compliance from source to run.

An IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection instance can be connected to an IBM Cloud Monitoring instance allowing data to be provided to both services by a single agent.

For more information about IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection, see the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection documentation.