Tanzu Platform SaaS

Discover your applications and microservices

Last Updated February 19, 2025

After you configure your Spring applications and attach your applications platform, Tanzu Platform discovers the applications and microservices that are running on your platform. The platform you attach in Tanzu Platform can be a Cloud Foundry foundation or your Kubernetes cluster. Tanzu Platform also discovers any application you have created in a Kubernetes Space.

After application discovery, Tanzu Platform starts collecting metrics and other data from the applications and the platforms on which they are running. The application discovery allows you to review the status of all your discovered applications on Tanzu Platform. You can quickly identify problematic areas by drilling down into the topology maps to locate the components that need attention.

You can also create business applications from the discovered applications. For information about creating business applications in Tanzu Platform, see Create business applications in Tanzu Platform.

Tanzu Platform supports only Spring-based applications on Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.

Before you begin

View applications and microservices

To view the discovered applications and microservices, in the left navigation pane, select Applications > Apps.

The Applications page shows the Status chart and the list of applications

The Applications page contains the Status chart, which shows:

  • The Total number of the applications.
  • The number of the applications per status.

    StatusDescription
    RunningThe application is running.
    StoppedThe application is not running.
    UnknownNo information about the status of the application. Check if the actuator is enabled correctly. See Enable Actuator in your Spring applications.

Find an application or microservice

The Applications page also contains a table list of the discovered applications and microservices. Use the Search text box to search for an application by name.

You can click the name of an application to open its application dashboard.

In the table of discovered applications and microservices, you can also:

  • Filter by source type, framework, status, and business application.
  • Sort the table by the properties in the columns.

    PropertyDescription
    Source TypeThe source platform type. Currently, can be Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, or Kubernetes, or public cloud.
    FrameworkThe framework of that application.
    StatusThe status of the application.
    Business ApplicationThe name of the business application to which the application belongs.

    For an application on Kubernetes, this is the name of the Kubernetes namespace.

    For an application on Cloud Foundry, this is the name of the Cloud Foundry cluster.

    You can click the name of a business application to open its topology map. See How to examine a business application.

What you can do now

ActionsSteps to follow
As an application engineer, if an application or microservice needs attention, you can examine its dashboard and quickly find troubleshooting information.See Troubleshooting your Spring applications and microservices
Create business applicationsSee Create business applications on Tanzu Platform