Offerings and add-ons

IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management contains two offerings and multiple add-ons. The offerings and add-ons contain agents and data collectors. Specific add-ons can be used with each offering.

To see which agents are included in an offering or add-on and the agent and data collector capabilities, see Capabilities.

For each offering, add-ons are available in IBM Marketplace. IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced is the most comprehensive offering, the one that includes all agents, data collectors, and dashboard pages. IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base is a subset of Cloud APM, Advanced. You can replace Cloud APM, Base with Cloud APM, Advanced at any time. The final installed offering after this replacement is Cloud APM, Advanced. The diagram shows which add-ons are available for each offering.

The add-ons are the same for all offerings, except for Availability Monitoring, which is an add-on only for the Cloud APM, Advanced offering.
Diagram of Cloud APM offerings and add-ons
Offerings
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced
This offering is for end user experience, transaction tracking, and resource monitoring of all your application components. You have code level visibility into your applications and the health of your application servers. Use the diagnostics dashboards to find performance bottlenecks in the application code and for managing your critical applications in production.

The offering includes IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base, and contains agents and data collectors that you use to monitor applications, transactions, and other resources that are installed in your enterprise. For a list of agents and data collectors in this offering, see Capabilities.

With this offering, DevOps has a complete solution that provides full visibility and control over your applications and infrastructure. Line of business owners can manage critical applications and end user experience in production. Application developers can view transaction details and diagnose application problems.

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base
This offering is for resource monitoring of infrastructure, application components, and cloud workloads. Resource monitoring helps you identify and address slow transactions, capacity issues, and outages. The offering contains agents and data collectors that you use to monitor applications and other resources that are installed in your enterprise. For a list of agents and data collectors in this offering, see Capabilities.

With this offering, IT operators can deal with slow transactions, capacity issues, and outages.

Add-ons
Advanced Extension Pack
This extension pack contains the Monitoring Agent for SAP HANA Database, the SAP NetWeaver Java™ Stack agent, and the Monitoring Agent for RabbitMQ.
Use the SAP HANA Database agent to monitor the SAP HANA database. Use the SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent to monitor the SAP NetWeaver Java Stack. Use the RabbitMQ agent to monitor RabbitMQ messaging. This extension pack is available if you have the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced offering.
Base Extension Pack
This extension pack contains the following agents:
  • Monitoring Agent for Cassandra
  • Monitoring Agent for InfoSphere® DataStage®
  • Monitoring Agent for Hadoop
  • Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Office 365
  • Monitoring Agent for Sterling Connect Direct
  • Monitoring Agent for Sterling File Gateway
Use these agents to monitor a Cassandra database, Hadoop cluster, DataStage server resources, Microsoft Office 365 applications, Connect Direct servers, and Sterling File Gateway application. This extension pack is available if you have either of the Cloud APM offerings.
Infrastructure Extension Pack
This extension pack contains the following agents:
  • Monitoring Agent for Amazon EC2
  • Monitoring Agent for AWS Elastic Load Balancer
  • Monitoring Agent for Azure Compute
  • Monitoring Agent for Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
  • Monitoring Agent for IBM Cloud
Use the Amazon EC2 agent to monitor your Amazon EC2 instances. Use the Amazon ELB agent to monitor your AWS Elastic Load Balancers. Use the Azure Compute agent to monitor your Azure Compute virtual machines. Use the Citrix VDI agent to monitor your Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure.
This extension pack is available if you have either of the Cloud APM offerings.
z Systems® Extension Pack
You can use the z Systems Extension Pack to view monitoring data and events for your OMEGAMON® application components in the Cloud APM console. This extension pack is available if you have either of the Cloud APM offerings.
Operations Analytics - Predictive Insights
This add-on is for analyzing the metric data that is collected by Cloud APM, and generating alarms when anomalies are detected. The add-on is available if you have either of the Cloud APM offerings.
Availability Monitoring
This add-on is for monitoring the availability and performance of your web applications from multiple, geographically distributed points of presence. This add-on does not function as a stand-alone offering, but is available if you have the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced offering.

For a description of each agent and data collector and links to information that is specific to each one, see Descriptions.