Pivotal Cloud Foundry Healthwatch
Warning: PCF Healthwatch v1.5 is no longer supported or available for download. PCF Healthwatch v1.5 has reached the End of General Support (EOGS) phase as defined by the Support Lifecycle Policy. To stay up to date with the latest software and security updates, upgrade to a supported version.
This documentation describes Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Healthwatch.
About PCF Healthwatch
PCF Healthwatch is a service for monitoring and alerting on the current health, performance, and capacity of PCF. To help operators understand the operational state of their PCF deployment, PCF Healthwatch:
- Stores, visualizes and alerts on metrics from core PCF components, including BOSH-reported VM metrics. The service covers the recommended Key Performance Indicators and Key Scaling Indicators for a given version of PCF.
- Executes health checks as continuous validation tests and creates super metrics. The service stores, displays, and forwards this data into the Loggregator Firehose for external consumption by existing customer solutions. For more information, see PCF Healthwatch Metrics and Access Super Metrics Through the Firehose.
PCF Healthwatch stores all data points for 25 hours and then prunes them. Any active alerts that are pruned reissue an alert every 24 hours if the related metrics are not yet recovered to a normal state.
Product Snapshot
The following table provides version and version-support information about PCF Healthwatch.
| Element | Details |
|---|---|
| Version | v1.5.5 |
| Release date | September 23, 2019 |
| Compatible Ops Manager version(s) | v2.3.x, v2.4.x, v2.5.x |
| Compatible Pivotal Application Service version(s) | v2.3.x, v2.4.x, v2.5.x |
| Compatible Pivotal Cloud Foundry Event Alerts version(s) | v1.2.x |
| IaaS support | AWS, Azure, GCP, and vSphere |
| Browser support | Latest Major Versions of Google Chrome and Firefox |
| IPsec support | Yes |
Limitations
- PCF Healthwatch is intended to monitor only the PCF foundation it is installed on.
PCF Healthwatch User Guide
- PCF Healthwatch Architecture
- Installing and Configuring PCF Healthwatch
- Using PCF Healthwatch
- PCF Healthwatch Resources
- PCF Healthwatch Metrics
- Monitoring PCF Healthwatch
- Indicator Protocol Dashboard (Beta)
- Troubleshooting PCF Healthwatch
- Updating Alert Configurations
- Updating Free Chunk Configurations
- Release Notes and Known Issues