QuestionQ19

Developing flows, messages, and applications

How does a monitoring agent correctly authenticate to the IBM Cloud Monitoring service to which it sends metrics?

  • A By using a trusted profile
  • B By using the access key provided when provisioning the monitoring service
  • C By using a service instance authorization
  • D By using an API key from the master cloud account owner
Explanation

An IBM Cloud Monitoring agent uses the monitoring instance’s access key (token) to authenticate when sending metrics to that instance. IBM documentation identifies the access key as the credential used to configure the agent and forward metric data.

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