Offering details

Some features are available for all offerings and others are available only for certain offerings.

Table 1 shows key features that are available for each offering at-a-glance.

Table 1. Features in each offering
Feature	Cloud APM, Advanced (For DevOps, Developers, and Line of Business)	Cloud APM, Base (For Operations)
Application resource monitoring: Languages, middleware (coverage varies by offering).
Operating system monitoring: Linux®, UNIX, Windows systems
Log file monitoring: Use the OS Agents to monitor application log files.
Dashboards: View Tivoli® Monitoring and Cloud APM KPIs in the same dashboards Historical metrics Customizable dashboards
APIs: Manage your environment by using APIs.
Role-based access control: Manage the access and privilege of your IBM Cloud Application Performance Management users.
Historical reporting: Generate reports for the performance and response time of your applications that are broken down by transaction, device, browser, and others (coverage varies by offering).
IBM Agent Builder: Build custom agents to monitor any platform or technology.
Database resource monitoring: (coverage varies by offering)
Infrastructure resource monitoring: Hypervisors, storage, and network (coverage varies by offering).
Commercial applications resource monitoring: Business and collaboration applications (coverage varies by offering).
Response time monitoring: See how your application performance is affecting your users.
Integration with search analytics: Find the insights to quickly isolate, diagnose, and resolve problems.
Operations Analytics - Predictive Insights (add-on): Determine application performance anomalies before they impact your users.
Real end user experience monitoring: See what your users experience from your infrastructure to their device.
Transaction tracking: Track end-to-end transactions through your application environment. Application topology: See how all components are connected in your application environment. Transaction instance topology: See the path that is followed through your environment for each instance of a transaction.
Synthetic Playback: Monitor the availability of your internal websites.
Deep-dive diagnostics: Drill down from summary dashboards to view code-level, stack trace, and SQL query detail for specific agents. Detect, diagnose, and kill hung or slow transactions that are still in progress.
Thresholds: Detect specific application behaviors and conditions based on actively monitored definitions.
Resource groups: Categorize managed systems in your monitored enterprise by their purpose.

Extra features such as the following are available for all offerings through integration with other products and components. See Integration, and for more details, see Integrating with other products and components).

Tivoli Monitoring and OMEGAMON® agents: Use the Hybrid Gateway to retrieve monitoring data and events so this information is displayed in the Cloud APM console.
Agent coexistence: Install Cloud APM agents on the same computer where Tivoli Monitoring agents are installed.
Netcool/OMNIbus and other EIF receivers: Forward events to IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
Tivoli Common Reporting
IBM Cloud: Monitor IBM Cloud applications.