Introduction to IBM Cloud App Management

Is your company moving applications into the cloud? Are you using AWS or Azure? If you’re wanting to monitor these environments, IBM Cloud App Management is the solution for you. 

IBM Cloud App Management is IBM's new approach to the APM group of products.

This product can manage your legacy and new applications. Whether you're modernizing existing applications or building cloud native applications to adapt to new market opportunities, Cloud App Management bridges your investments in traditional workloads and modern cloud-based environments.

One of the features that is really good, is that they now show the golden signals in the service metrics and as a result it's very easy to see the health of a service.  These Golden Signals are: latency, errors, traffic, and saturation. You can use these as early warning signals to get ahead of service impacts.

 Another great feature is the adjustable timeline with event markers to guide you when you are looking for where something went wrong. You can use timeline slider to review your history to see what the state was before and after an event has occurred.

It is really simple to set up an integration to receive notifications about jobs from Jenkins projects and set up another integration to receive alert information from, for example, Microsoft Azure. Further preconfigured integrations exist and webhooks can be used for those not preconfigured.

ICAM installs in a containerised environment, which means that it is easy to upgrade and patch when new releases come out.

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