Deploying Unified Agent
The Unified Agent is an agent for
collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics to your IBM® Cloud App
Management environment. It is based on Telegraf and
creates a framework of plug-ins to provide common functions.
Overview of Unified Agent
The Unified Agent supports receiving OpenTracing workloads including Jaeger and Zipkin, and provides plug-ins to monitor IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM MQ that are deployed in IBM Cloud Private environment,NGINX and Redis workloads, and IBM API Connect . It also supports plug-ins to monitor OpenShift and DEM.
Preparing the deployment of Unified Agent
Before you deploy the Unified Agent , you need to download the Unified Agent Greenfield package and the configuration package, and ensure that your environment meets the prerequisites.
Installing and configuring the Unified Agent
You can deploy the Unified Agent by using Helm chart. In the deployment process, you need to do specific configurations for different plug-ins.
Updating the Unified Agent configuration
You can update the Unified Agent configuration by using the configmap.
Uninstalling the Unified Agent
You can uninstall the Unified Agent by using Helm chart.