Architecture decisions for service management
The following sections summarize the architecture decisions for service management for the speech and vision recognition with RAG AI pattern.
Architecture decisions for Voice and Computer Vision
| Architecture decision | Requirement | Option | Decision | Rationale |
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| Manage and monitor watsonx | Model management, monitoring dashboards, alerting and notifications, model risk analysis, security auditing, model versioning |
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watsonx.governance | Centralized governance to manage and monitor AI workflows that are built with responsibility, transparency, and explainability. It consists of Open Scale, AI Factsheets, and Open Pages services that are integrated and enhanced with features for working with foundation models and generative AI. Services are rebranded with current focus on integrating and Open Scale, AI Factsheets with Open Pages |
| Manage and monitor Speech to Text and Text to Speech | Manage and monitor Speech to Text and Text to Speech. |
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Watson speech services | IBM Cloud services for Watson Speech to Text and Text to Speech provides live monitoring capabilities for supported languages. |
| Manage and monitor image and video analysis | Manage and monitor image and video AI analysis, including security, analysis, and detection as needed. |
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Maximo Visual Inspection native management console | Use Maximo Visual Inspection management and monitoring capabilities to manage the environment. |
Architecture decisions for monitoring
| Architecture decision | Requirement | Option | Decision | Rationale |
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| Operational monitoring of cloud infrastructure and services | Monitor system health to detect issues that might impact the availability of the system and application. |
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IBM Cloud Monitoring | IBM Cloud Monitoring collects and monitors operational metrics for cloud infrastructure as well as the cloud platform and services and provides a single view for all metrics |
| Operational monitoring of applications | Monitor app health to detect issues that might impact the availability of the app. |
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IBM Cloud Monitoring and Instana (SaaS) | Instana is used to along with IBM Cloud Monitoring to get more application performance metrics and automate Application Performance Management. Instana provides data and actionable insights to monitor the applications and automate root-cause analysis. |
Architecture decisions for logging
| Architecture decision | Requirement | Option | Decision | Rationale |
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| Log monitoring of cloud infrastructure and services | Monitor operational logs to detect issues that might impact the availability of the system and application. |
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IBM Cloud Logging | IBM Cloud Logging collects operational logs from applications, platform resources, and infrastructure and provides interfaces to view and analyze all logs. |
| Log monitoring of web app | Monitor application operational logs to detect issues that might impact the availability of the app. |
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IBM Cloud Logging and application logging tool | Use the application logging tool to send application logs to IBM Cloud Logging and the aggregate application-specific log details. |
| Log monitoring of DB | Monitor database logs to detect issues that might impact the availability of the database. |
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IBM Cloud Logging and application logging tool | Use the DB tools along with IBM Cloud Logging to get more DB-specific log information. |
Architecture decisions for auditing
| Architecture decision | Requirement | Option | Decision | Rationale |
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| Audit logging | Monitor audit logs to track changes to cloud resources and detect potential security problems. |
IBM Cloud Logs
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IBM Cloud Logs
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IBM Cloud Logs provides observability services for IBM Cloud so you can view, analyze, and alert on activity tracking events and logging activity. |
Architecture decisions for alerting
| Architecture decision | Requirement | Option | Decision | Rationale |
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| Operational alerts | Provide a mechanism to identify and send notifications about operational issues that are found across application and infrastructure. | IBM Cloud Monitoring, IBM Cloud Logging, and Event Notifications | IBM Cloud Monitoring, IBM Cloud Logging, and Event Notifications | IBM Cloud Monitoring and IBM Cloud Logging support the configuration of alerts to detect operational issues and send notifications to targeted channels. Event Notifications are used to route the alert events to service destinations to automate response actions. |
| Audit alerts | Provide a mechanism to identify and send notifications about issues that are found in audit logs. | IBM Cloud Logs 3rd Party Alerting for audit. |
IBM Cloud Logs | IBM Logs provides observability services for IBM Cloud so you can view, analyze, and alert on activity tracking events and logging activity |