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Understanding how to monitor your IBM Cloud resources and manage costs is essential for running a healthy cloud environment. This lesson covers IBM Cloud Monitoring, IBM Log Analysis, Activity Tracker, and billing tools.
IBM Cloud Monitoring (powered by Sysdig) provides visibility into the performance of your infrastructure and applications:
Automatically collects metrics from IBM Cloud services:
| Service | Example Metrics |
|---|---|
| Virtual Servers | CPU utilisation, memory usage, disk I/O, network traffic |
| Kubernetes / OpenShift | Pod CPU/memory, node status, deployment replicas |
| Cloud Databases | Connections, IOPS, storage usage, replication lag |
| Code Engine | Invocations, duration, concurrency |
| Cloud Object Storage | Request count, bandwidth, error rate |
Define alert rules to trigger notifications when metrics breach thresholds:
Example: Alert when Virtual Server CPU utilisation exceeds 85% for 10 consecutive minutes.
Create custom dashboards to visualise metrics:
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