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Tracing MQ based transaction processing

Adane — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:12:14 GMT

The system I am working on uses MQ as the interface for internal as well as external system integration. The same request goes through multiple queues and is processed by different internal as well as external applications. I would like to be able to trace the request end-to-end. There is a message id in the payload that uniquely identifies the request. Is it possible to extract the message id from the payload and add it to the request name or trace id?

Re: Tracing MQ based transaction processing

AntonPineiro — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:48:09 GMT

Hi,

You can try to use request attributes. You can track HTTP headers in request and response.

If you are using Grail, you have also Business Events. Allowing you track content in payload's body.

When you have that tracked, you can configure a request naming rule.

Best regards

Re: Tracing MQ based transaction processing

Adane — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:12:44 GMT

@AntonPineiro We are not using web requests. Therefore, I don't think I can use request attributes. What do you mean by "if you are using Grail"? Thanks.

Re: Tracing MQ based transaction processing

AntonPineiro — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 21:27:10 GMT

Hi,

Grail -> https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform/grail/dynatrace-grail

Best regards

Re: Tracing MQ based transaction processing

radek_jasinski — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:00:31 GMT

If you are using SaaS then Grail would be the best option at this point.

Re: Tracing MQ based transaction processing

gilgi — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 20:24:10 GMT

Why don't the mq auto tracing capabilities within messages enough for this? In that case you can just add another request attribute frim the application side and not necessarily from the payload

Re: Tracing MQ based transaction processing

Adane — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:24:36 GMT

I do not have control on some of the participating applications. Can you expand what you mean by MQ auto tracing capabilities?

Re: Tracing MQ based transaction processing

gilgi — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 05:51:21 GMT

@Adane take a look at https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/ibm-mq-tracing