IBM Cloud Product
Insights overview
IBM® Cloud Product
Insights is a service
that is part of IBM Cloud. The Product Insights service integrates with your IBM software products, such as IBM Integration Bus, to gather and display runtime
product information and usage metrics.
Ensure that your version and fix pack level of IBM Integration Bus is compatible with the level
of the Product Insights service before you
enable IBM Integration Bus to connect to it.
You can use the Product Insights service
to:
- Register on-premise IBM software
products with an IBM Cloud service.
- Gather product information and usage data from enabled and configured
on-premise software, such as IBM Integration Bus.
- View information about all enabled and configured products through
a single centralized dashboard in IBM Cloud.
- 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 Integration Bus 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 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:
- Create at least one service instance within IBM Cloud of the Product Insights service.
- Configure your on-premise IBM Integration Bus 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 Cloud account.
For information about how to configure your
Product Insights service and your
IBM Integration Bus integration servers, see the
following topics:
For more information about Product Insights,
see the
IBM Cloud Product
Insights documentation.