Over the past few weeks I’ve been asked a couple of times about invoking a Jupyter Notebook created in IBM Watson Studio via an API. …

Before I start and in case you are not aware IBM open-sourced and donated “IBM Watson IoT Platform — Message Gateway” (previously called IBM MessageSight) to Eclipse in 2021 and it now sits under the Amlen project. Lots of great material on Amlen can be found here and it should…

As I get more and more involved with Instana I start to discover more areas where I would like to apply it. One area of interest for me has been Jupyter notebooks running in Watson Studio. This is of interest as I’ve created a number of solutions where I use…

Its been a while and I needed another MQTT “technology fix” to get my brain whirling so I revisited a challenge I looked at several years back — how to “shoulder tap” an MQTT device that had gone silent. For example I may have an application on a web page…

Recently myself and a colleague of mine in IBM Client Engineering (Manjer Shaikh) had the opportunity to explore the potential for securing MQTT traffic using the Cloud Internet Services (CIS) capability within the IBM Cloud. The focus was on MQTT traffic being passed from a Web Client application to an…

Following on from the work I did originally to test tracing MQTT flows with Instana using NodeRED I wanted to look at using a simple NodeJS and WebUI set up. This was partly to support an engagement I am working on but also to satisfy my curiosity :-) So lets…

One of the projects I have worked on implemented IBM Message Gateway running within an OpenShift Cluster. IBM Message Gateway comes with its own “WebUI” for management and monitoring but I was asked if it would be possible to monitor IBM Message Gateway using Instana. …

Over the last few months I’ve been increasing my knowledge and skills around Instana and recently I had the opportunity to explore its Db2 monitoring capabilities. The situation I was facing was one of sporadic performance issues with heavy queries running against a Db2 Warehouse database. The database contains several…

Following on from the work I did using NodeRED to try and trace MQTT traffic using Instana I wanted to take things a step further and look at tracing traffic from a Mobile app though to existing NodeRED and Message Gateway infrastructure (deployed to OpenShift on the IBM Cloud). Given…