Administering

Administering the Cloud APM infrastructure and agents involves maintenance tasks such as changing passwords and customization tasks such as adding and editing applications.

Starting the Cloud APM console
Log in to the Cloud APM console from your browser to review the health status of your applications in the dashboards.
Thresholds and resource groups
Thresholds test for certain conditions, such as number of transactions per minute fewer than 100, and open an event when the conditions have been met. Use thresholds to monitor for real and potential issues with your monitored resources. Assign thresholds to resource groups for monitoring on all managed systems of the same type the belong to the group.
Managing user access
Use the Role Based Access Control feature in IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management to grant users the access privileges they require for their role.
Administering your agents
Your IBM Cloud Application Performance Management installation has tools for managing your monitoring agents.
Administering server components
The Cloud APM server requires some ongoing maintenance such as changing passwords and backing up the components. Use the available functions for server administration tasks. You must complete these tasks as the root user.
Exploring the APIs
Use the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management APIs to create scripts for automating the onboarding of your IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Private environment.
Adjusting the console timeout value
The LTPA token has a default expiration timeout of 200 minutes after which you are automatically logged off. You can adjust the timeout value to accommodate your work requirements.
Advanced Configuration
Use the Advanced Configuration page to control communications settings and advanced features such as event forwarding.
Enabling advanced pruning of the Datamart database
You can enable advanced pruning of the Datamart database to control the size of the database.