topic Number of messages written when QUEUE service is not monitored in Open Q&A

Number of messages written when QUEUE service is not monitored

monitoringteam1 — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:59:18 GMT

Hello,

we would like to create a custom metrics showing the number of messages written into a specific queue:

Like in the screenshot attached, the number we are interested in is "738", not the number of purepath on the caller.

Queue listener is not monitored with oneagent so the only info we have is caller side. Is there a way to extract that number as metric???

Thank you,

Re: Number of messages written when QUEUE service is not monitored

Julius_Loman — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 21:12:03 GMT

At the moment - only way I can think of is to define a custom service in the code where the message gets pushed into the queue and then use the metric.

Queues are still considered second class citizens within Dynatrace and you don't have any metrics for them.

In MDA you can count the number of requests writing to the queue, but this is not the same as number of messages written into the queue.

Re: Number of messages written when QUEUE service is not monitored

Babar_Qayyum — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 07:59:51 GMT

Hello @monitoringteam1

I am not 100% sure but might be the Enqueue/Dequeue Rate can be used to obtain the required information. If we use the IBM MQ monitoring extension.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/dynatrace-extensions/dynatrace-extension-required/ibm-mq-extensions/

Regards,

Babar

Re: Number of messages written when QUEUE service is not monitored

Julius_Loman — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:36:25 GMT

@Babar_Qayyum with the extension you will have the metric, but it's only about the queue. You cannot distinguish between sources of the messages that go into the queue.

Re: Number of messages written when QUEUE service is not monitored

Babar_Qayyum — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:40:06 GMT

Hello @Julius_Loman

Thank you for the information.

Regards,

Babar