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Learning IBM Bluemix

By : Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
Book Image

Learning IBM Bluemix

By: Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Overview of this book

IBM Bluemix is an open standard platform for building, running, and managing applications on the cloud. With Bluemix, developers can build innovative applications using various compute options and value added services , developers can also manage the application lifecycle using the platform provided DevOps services. Learning IBM Bluemix will take you on a journey from the basics of IBM Bluemix to working with the platform to developing and deploying of modern applications. The sample application use cases employed in the book will introduce you to the transformative nexus of cloud, mobile, and security, all enabled through capabilities provided out-of-the-box by IBM Bluemix. By the end of the book, you will have understood the benefits and use cases for IBM Bluemix, and will possess the skills to further explore the platform and thus develop, deploy, and secure your own innovative, new-age applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning IBM Bluemix
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Building and Deploying Your First Application on IBM Bluemix

Overview of monitoring and management services in Bluemix


Note

Discussions in this chapter will be based upon the services that are available in Bluemix at the time of writing this book (July 2016).

Some of the services that can be used to monitor and manage your applications on Bluemix are the following:

  • Monitoring and Analytics, which is an IBM service

  • New Relic, a third-party service

  • JKool, a third-party service

  • IBM Alert Notification, which is an IBM service

When you log in to Bluemix, and select All Items, you will see Get started now!, as shown in the following screenshot:

From here you can click Get started now! to view the services in the Bluemix catalog. Go to the DevOps category to view the monitoring and management services:

Let us now look in detail at how to use the Monitoring and Analytics service with your application in Bluemix.