IBM Cloud Monitoring

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Sysdig-powered monitoring service for Kubernetes and infrastructure metrics with out-of-the-box dashboards, Prometheus-compatible metrics, custom alerts routed to Slack / PagerDuty / email, and tight integration with IKS and ROKS clusters

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Jurisdictional exposure

Provider HQ
USArmonk, USA

Subject to CLOUD Act, FISA-702, DPF

Region locations
APACEUUKUSOther14 regions across 5 jurisdictions
Sovereign option
Yes — 1 sovereign-flagged region available
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Attributes

Vendor
Sysdig

Sub-services (3)

Dashboards

Sysdig dashboards with IBM-curated Kubernetes and infrastructure panels

Alerts

Threshold-based alerting with rich notification channels

Prometheus Metrics

Native PromQL query support for scraped application metrics

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

GDPRSOC 2ISO 27001HIPAAPCI DSSFedRAMP

Where this runs

14 regions
9 countries
1sovereign
Sovereign regions (1)
  • Frankfurt (Financial Services) · FrankfurtIBM Cloud for Financial Services
Commercial regions (13)

Europe (4)

  • Frankfurt
  • Frankfurt 2
  • Madrid
  • London

North America (4)

  • Montreal
  • Toronto
  • Dallas
  • Washington DC

South America (1)

  • São Paulo

Asia (3)

  • Chennai
  • Osaka
  • Tokyo

Oceania (1)

  • Sydney

Tags

monitoringmetricsprometheuskubernetesmanagement

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Pricing

Pricing model:subscription