Monitoring and mobile operations

IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation includes a range of operational analytics and reporting mechanisms for collecting, viewing, and analyzing data from your IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation applications and servers, and for monitoring server health.

Logging and monitoring mechanisms
IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation reports errors, warnings, and informational messages into a log file. The underlying logging mechanism varies by application server.
Operational analytics
The operational analytics feature enables searching across apps, services, devices, and other sources to collect data about usage or detect problems. The operational analytics platform collects data about applications, adapters, devices, and logs to give a high-level view of the client interaction with the MobileFirst Server and to enable problem detection.
(deprecated) Reports database
IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation provides an extensible mechanism for enterprises to use to integrate reporting tools with IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation.
Mobile application management
The Mobile Application Management feature enables mobile operators and administrators to securely track, search, and control access to users through the mobile applications that are used on their devices, all from the MobileFirst Operations Console.
License tracking
License tracking is enabled by default in IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation, which tracks metrics relevant to the licensing policy such as active client device, addressable devices, and installed apps.
Token license validation
IBM MobileFirst Platform Server validates licenses during various scenarios.