IBM Cloud Product
Insights overview
IBM® Cloud Product
Insights is a service
that is available on IBM Cloud
Private.
The Product Insights service integrates with
your IBM software products,
such as IBM App Connect
Enterprise, to gather and
display runtime product information and usage metrics.
Ensure that your version and fix pack level of IBM App Connect
Enterprise is compatible with the level
of the Product Insights service before you
enable IBM App Connect
Enterprise to connect to it.
You can use the Product Insights service
to:
- Register on-premise IBM software
products with an IBM Cloud
Private service.
- Gather product information and usage data from enabled and configured
on-premise software, such as IBM App Connect
Enterprise.
- View information about all enabled and configured products through
a single centralized dashboard in IBM Cloud
Private.
- Gain a greater insight into the workload of the enabled and configured
products, by accessing the runtime usage data.
- Group instances of enabled and configured products
to reflect their usage, and view aggregated runtime usage data. For
example, you can group IBM App Connect
Enterprise integration
servers based on whether they are used for test, staging, or production.
The Product Insights service, including
the service dashboard, runs in IBM Cloud
Private and
receives information from enabled on-premise IBM software products. This information is then
displayed in the service instance dashboard.
If you want to use the
IBM Cloud Product
Insights capabilities,
you must first complete the following steps:
- Install and configure an IBM Cloud
Private cluster,
as described in the
IBM Cloud Private documentation.
For more information about IBM Cloud
Private,
see the
IBM Cloud
Private web pages.
- Configure your on-premise IBM App Connect
Enterprise installation,
and provide the required credentials for connecting to the Product Insights service. These credentials ensure
that your data is stored securely and is accessible only to you through
your IBM private cloud.
For information about how to configure your
Product Insights service and your
IBM App Connect
Enterprise integration servers, see the
following topics:
For more information about Product Insights, see the
IBM Cloud Product Insights documentation.