Manual Chapter : Monitoring

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BIG-IQ Cloud

  • 4.2.0
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About monitoring applications and application servers

As a tenant, you can use BIG-IQ Cloud to monitor the health statistics and performance of applications and servers. In addition to the application itself, the health of an application is influenced by its associated objects, including:

  • Servers that host applications
  • Virtual servers that manage traffic to applications
  • Connectors

Monitoring applications

Before you can monitor an application, you must first deploy it.
Monitoring statistics and performance details for applications and associated network objects provides you with the information you need to make resource management decisions. The application statistics are collected by the managed BIG-IP device and include various network statistic, such as connections, bits per second, and so forth. The performance data displays the application performance trend over a period of time.
  1. Log in to the BIG-IQ Cloud with your tenant user name and password.
  2. On the Applications panel, click the gear icon next to the name of the application that you want to monitor. The panel expands to display the application's properties.
  3. To view the statistics, click Statistics. The statistics display and all of the associated objects for that application are highlighted in the applicable panels.
  4. To view the performance, click Performance The performance graph displays.

Monitoring application servers

A cloud provider must have discovered, or you must have added, an application server before you can monitor it.

Monitoring health and performance statistics for your application servers provides you useful information about the health and usage for your resources. This information helps you decide when to increase or decrease resources to support your application requirements.

  1. Log in to BIG-IQ Cloud with your tenant user name and password.
  2. On the Server panel, click the gear icon next to the name of the application server that you want to monitor. The panel expands to display the application monitor's properties.
  3. To view the statistics, click Statistics. The statistics display and all of the associated objects for that application are highlighted in the applicable panels.
  4. To view the performance, click Performance The performance graph displays.