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Learning IBM Bluemix

By : Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
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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

Monitoring and Analytics service


Using the Monitoring and Analytics (M&A) service, you can get the details on the performance, availability and log analytics details for your application. In this section, we will learn how to create the service instance and how to configure it to enable monitoring of your application.

Note

M&A service is currently only supported for Java applications on Liberty Application Server and NodeJS applications.

Creating the Monitoring and Analytics service instance

When you log in to Bluemix, and select All Items, you will see Get started now! From here you can click Get started now! to view the services in the Bluemix catalog. Once you are in the Bluemix catalog, you can perform the following steps to create the M&A service instance:

  1. In the catalog, filter the services by typing  Monitoring and Analytics as shown here:

  2. Click Monitoring and Analytics service. The service details are displayed as shown here:

  3. The available plan details of the M&A service...