Overview of monitoring and management services in Bluemix
Note
Discussions in this chapter will be based upon the services that are available in Bluemix at the time of writing this book (July 2016).
Some of the services that can be used to monitor and manage your applications on Bluemix are the following:
- Monitoring and Analytics, which is an IBM service
- New Relic, a third-party service
- JKool, a third-party service
- IBM Alert Notification, which is an IBM service
When you log in to Bluemix, and select All Items, you will see Get started now!, as shown in the following screenshot:
From here you can click Get started now! to view the services in the Bluemix catalog. Go to the DevOps category to view the monitoring and management services:
Let us now look in detail at how to use the Monitoring and Analytics service with your application in Bluemix.