Upgrading your data collectors

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Periodically, new archive files that contain upgraded data collectors are available for download. Archive files are available from IBM® Passport Advantage®.

Before you begin

If you upgrade your Cloud APM server, you must also upgrade your data collectors.

About this task

To upgrade a data collector, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Unconfigure the data collector from your local and/or IBM Cloud applications:
- For the J2SE data collector, unconfiguration steps are not required.
- For the Liberty data collector, follow the instructions in Unconfiguring the data collector for IBM Cloud applications and/or Unconfiguring the data collector for on-premises applications.
- For theNode.js data collector, follow the instructions in Unconfiguring the stand-alone Node.js data collector for IBM Cloud applications and/or Unconfiguring the stand-alone Node.js data collector for on-premises applications.
- For thePython data collector, follow the instructions in Unconfiguring the Python data collector for IBM Cloud applications and/or Unconfiguring the Python data collector for on-premises applications.
- For theRuby data collector, follow the instructions in Unconfiguring the Ruby data collector for IBM Cloud applications.
Download the data collector package.
Reconfigure the data collector to monitor your local and/or IBM Cloud applications:
- For the Node.js data collector, after you upgrade the data collector, reconfigure the data collector. For instructions, see Configuring the stand-alone Node.js data collector for IBM Cloud(formerly Bluemix) applications and/or Configuring the stand-alone Node.js data collector for on-premises applications.
- For the Python data collector, after you upgrade the data collector, reconfigure the data collector. For instructions, see Configuring the Python data collector for IBM Cloud applications and/or Configuring the Python data collector for on-premises applications.
- For the Liberty data collector, after you upgrade the data collector, reconfigure the data collector. For instructions, see Configuring the Liberty data collector in IBM Cloud environment (Liberty V18.* and older versions) and/or Configuring the Liberty data collector in on-premises environments (Liberty V18.* and older versions).
- For the J2SE data collector, after you upgrade the data collector, reconfigure the data collector. For instructions, see Configuring J2SE monitoring.
- For the Ruby data collector, after you upgrade the data collector, reconfigure the data collector. For instructions, see Configuring the Ruby data collector for IBM Cloud applications.

Results

The data collector is upgraded to the latest version.