Choosing an agent type by infrastructure
To monitor your infrastructure, network, and applications with the IBM Cloud® Monitoring service, you can deploy Monitoring agents on supported hosts.
About agent types
You configure an agent by choosing an agent type.
The type of the agent determines the metrics that are collected automatically for a host. You can choose from an agent for orchestrated environments or an agent for non-orchestrated environments. For more information, see Collecting default metrics by using the Monitoring agent.
If you have connected an instance of IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection to your IBM Cloud Monitoring instance, the agent will provide data to both services without having to configure two separate agents. For more information about connecting the services, see Can IBM Cloud Monitoring and IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection be used together?
Choosing metric collection method by infrastructure
The following table shows the options that you can choose to monitor a host by type of infratsructure:
| Type | Infrastructure | Non-Orchestrated environments | Orchestrated environments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchestrated environment | Kubernetes clusters | Supported | |
| Orchestrated environment | OpenShift clusters | Supported | |
| Non-Orchestrated environment | Virtual Machines (VM) | Supported | Supported |
| Non-Orchestrated environment | Bare metal servers | Supported | Supported |
| Non-Orchestrated environment | Linux based Virtual Machines (VM) | Supported | Supported |
| Non-Orchestrated environment | Linux based Virtual Machines (VM) on VPC | Supported | Supported |
| Non-Orchestrated environment | Linux based Virtual Machines (VM) on VMware | Supported | Supported |
You can configure an agent on hosts in the IBM Cloud, on-prem, and in other clouds.