Best Practices for Monitoring Your Cloud Environment and Applications
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This document summarizes a presentation on monitoring cloud environments and applications. The presentation discusses how monitoring requirements have changed in the cloud, with an emphasis on automation, standardization, and quick deployment. It outlines challenges in monitoring public clouds and requirements for cloud monitoring. The presentation then reviews IBM's monitoring offerings for private, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud models, including IBM SmartCloud Application Insight, IBM SmartCloud APM, IBM Service Engage, and IBM Pure Application System Monitoring. It concludes with a demo of IBM SmartCloud Application Insight.
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- 1. CONNECT WITH US: Best Practices for Monitoring Cloud Environment and Applications Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics Technology Manager - Prolifics Suresh Wilson
- 2. CONNECT WITH US: Agenda Monitoring solutions – The traditional approach Monitoring Requirements – In a cloud environment IBM Offerings for monitoring and analytics IBM SmartCloud Application Insight IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Pure Application System Monitoring Demo – Application Insight 2
- 3. CONNECT WITH US: Speaker Introduction 3 Suresh Wilson Technology Manager - Prolifics Technology Manager focusing on enterprise systems, cloud services, enterprise integration and performance management; focusing primarily on IBM WebSphere, Tivoli (CS&I) and Rational product lines.
- 4. CONNECT WITH US: February 24, 2015 Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics 4 5-Years Compound Annual Growth Rate 19% Employees Worldwide 1,500 Global Presence United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India 20+ Technology Accelerators 550+ Technical Certifications Over 10 Technology and Solutions Awards since 2009 including Business Agility, Customer Integration and Digital Experience, the first ever Beacon Laureate for Business Agility Over 160 global customers are currently Fortune 1000 companies Best-in-class architects and specialty experts: BPM, Integration, Digital Experience, Security, Testing, Business Analytics and Enterprise Content Management End-to-End Project Expertise Rate of Repeat Engagements* 91% Prolifics at a Glance Years in Business 35+ Offices 14 Awards Technology Expertise Fortune 1000 *based on% revenueSource– December 2013 internalrevenuemetrics
- 5. CONNECT WITH US: Collaborate and learn 5 Let’s keep the session interactive….. And let’s learn something new…
- 6. CONNECT WITH US: Monitoring Solutions – the traditional way Designed to work within corporate data centers Substantial build and deploy time (> many months) Minimal requirements for elasticity and dynamic provisioning Local data collection based on agent-based monitoring 6
- 7. CONNECT WITH US: Monitoring Solutions – the traditional life-cycle 7 Planning/Prep Tasks (weeks) Hardware Provisioning (weeks) OS/Product Deployment (weeks) Monitoring Agent Deployment (days) Monitoring Agent post-install tasks (days)
- 8. CONNECT WITH US: Monitoring solutions – the traditional life- cycle Most often manual, customized, need based 8
- 9. CONNECT WITH US: Monitoring Solutions – the cloud life-cycle 9 Planning/Prep Tasks (weeks) Hardware Provisioning (hours/days) OS/Product Deployment + Monitoring Agents + post- install tasks (hours/days)
- 10. CONNECT WITH US: Changing requirements 10 Planning/Prep Tasks (weeks) Hardware Provisioning (weeks) OS/Product Deployment (weeks) Monitoring Agent Deployment (days) Monitoring Agent post-install tasks (days) Planning/Prep Tasks (weeks) Hardware Provisioning (hours/days) OS/Product Deployment + Monitoring Agents + post- install tasks (hours/days)
- 11. CONNECT WITH US: Monitoring solutions – the Cloud life-cycle Fully automated, integrated, standardized and a necessity 11
- 12. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Monitoring challenges Public cloud infrastructure/application monitoring is “tricky” Cloud provider may not grant access to the infrastructure Hard to get direct visibility into the components Makes problem analysis and determination that much harder 12
- 13. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Monitoring Requirements Quick, easy roll-outs (minutes to hours), auto-discovery High level of automation and auto-remediation Quick way to monitor and track KPIs (service oriented requirements) Deeper visibility into runtimes (including in Production) End-user experience monitoring is the key 13
- 14. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Computing Foundation 14 Self-ServiceVirtualization Automation Standardization
- 15. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Computing Foundation 15 Self-ServiceVirtualization Automation Standardization Monitoring of cloud components and applications rely mostly on automation and standardization
- 16. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Monitoring Approach Advanced planning is key Plan the monitoring solution around enterprise architecture and strategic objectives Highly standardized environments and applications Tighter co-ordination with various teams Emphasis on standardization and processes Make use of automation and orchestration solutions (IBM Cloud Orchestrator, Chef, Puppet, uDeploy etc.) 16
- 17. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Monitoring Approach Use a cloud based APM solution to monitor a cloud-based application Use an on-prem APM solution to monitor a cloud-based application Use a cloud-based APM solution to monitor a private cloud 17
- 18. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Service Models 18 Private Cloud Infrastructure as a service Platform as a service Software as a service
- 19. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Monitoring Approach Private • Complete • Implement end-to-end solutions IaaS • Complete* • Implement end-to-end solutions* PaaS • Partial • Work with the provider • Component level • Application Availability • Application Performance • End-user performance monitoring SaaS • Partial • Work with the provider • Application Availability • Application Performance • End-user performance monitoring 19
- 20. CONNECT WITH US: Cloud Monitoring Approach 20 Implement Centralized Logging Implement automated base-lining (predictive) Determine and measure KPIs Implement an integrated solution Ideal scenario is an integrated hybrid monitoring solution
- 21. CONNECT WITH US: IBM Monitoring Offerings for cloud On-Prem IBM SmartCloud Application Insight IBM SmartCloud APM (check out the new offerings - especially hybrid monitoring solution) SaaS IBM Service Engage SaaS (check out the new offerings – especially hybrid monitoring solution) IBM Pure IBM PureApplication System Monitoring (IPAS) 21
- 22. CONNECT WITH US: IBM Monitoring Offerings for cloud Hybrid APM – Collaborative Operations *IBM already announced the intent to release this offering - link 22 Upcoming Offering*
- 23. CONNECT WITH US: IBM SmartCloud Application Insight Lightweight, quick to deploy solution Managing infrastructure deploys < 20 minutes Monitoring agents deploys < 15 minutes Almost zero configuration Dynamic monitoring and auto-discovery features 23
- 24. CONNECT WITH US: IBM SmartCloud Application Insight Easy to use web-based interface Run-time monitoring and deep dive within the same console 24
- 25. CONNECT WITH US: IBM SmartCloud Application Insight - Architecture 25 Consumer VM Monitoring Infrastructure (fabric) Node + APM UIConsumer VM Minimal configuration – ready to run OS WAS OS Node. js
- 26. CONNECT WITH US: IBM SmartCloud Application Insight - Coverage VMWare vSphere Amazon WS IBM SC Provisioning Supported Hypervisors Supported Components Windows OS Linux OS WAS Tomcat PHP Node.js .Net Mongo DB MySQL PostgreSQL Ruby Python PHP Response Time
- 27. CONNECT WITH US: IBM SmartCloud APM and Cloud Monitoring 27
- 28. CONNECT WITH US: IBM SmartCloud APM and Cloud Monitoring Extend SmartCloud APM to support cloud monitoring Standardize configuration and deployment - agent as well as monitored components/applications Rely on silent installation and configuration Make use of Managed System Lists for dynamic monitoring, custom views, situation distribution and historical data collection Make use of orchestration and automation solutions (ex. UrbanCode Deploy, Cloud Orchestrator, Chef, Puppet)
- 29. CONNECT WITH US: 29 IBM Service Engage (SaaS) Offerings
- 30. CONNECT WITH US: IBM Service Engage Solutions 30 SaaS based APM solutions Quick roll-out Integrated and collaborative offering (APM, ITSM, Automation, Control Desk, Operations, Log Analytics, Predictive Analytics etc.) Cloud friendly by nature
- 31. CONNECT WITH US: 31 Pure Application System Monitoring
- 32. CONNECT WITH US: 32
- 33. CONNECT WITH US: IPAS - Internal Vs External Internal Dynamic Navigator View and Managed System List Creation and Deletion Automatic Launch In-Context from any IPAS Virtual Machine or Server, using IPAS Console credentials and User Registries External Uses existing Monitoring framework Consolidated view across PureApp and non-PureApp workloads
- 34. CONNECT WITH US: IPAS - Integrated Contextual monitoring •Single Sign On between IPAS and ITM •User authorization to metrics is based on shared roles Workload Monitoring (Deployment Inlet) OS/Applications Database ITM OS view OPM Overview dashboard ITM ITCAM view
- 35. CONNECT WITH US: IPAS - Compute Nodes Summary Workspace
- 36. CONNECT WITH US: IPAS - Virtual Machines Workspace
- 37. CONNECT WITH US: IPAS - Storage Nodes Workspace
- 38. CONNECT WITH US: Putting it together Monitoring and visibility is even more important in the cloud Advanced planning Standardization and automation Use orchestration/workflow tools Go with an integrated solution 38
- 40. CONNECT WITH US: Demo Overview 40 Application Insight SmartCloud APM Service Engage
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