topic Queued messages option in Extensions

Queued messages option

Ccastrillon — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:26:24 GMT

Good morning.
I am creating a dashboard for Openshift queue information.
The client requests to have a graph showing the messages queued for each queue.
From the openshift console the queued messages are observed in the MESSAGE_COUNT option is the field that shows the queued messages.

Can someone please help me by telling me how I can get this information from dynatrace?

I have used the metrics of:
builtin:queue.incoming_requests:splitBy("dt.entity.queue"):sum
builtin:queue.outgoing_requests:splitBy("dt.entity.queue"):sum

But these metrics do not show what the client needs to see which is the messages queued by each queue.

Greetings,

Re: Queues

Miguel_RinconG — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:12:23 GMT

Hi @Ccastrillon,

Are queues IBM MQ? If this is the case, you can use the IBM MQ extension, and obtain the Depth metric.

Re: Queues

PacoPorro — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:33:13 GMT

Are you looking for the "content" of the message?

Re: Queues

sujit_k_singh — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 02:54:31 GMT

@Ccastrillon As suggested by @Miguel_RinconG MQ extension is the solution, if in case MQ is not there then try below some more option

Identify the relevant entities representing the queues in your environment.
Once you've identified the entities representing the queues, you can use Dynatrace's custom metrics feature to capture the number of queued messages for each queue. You'll need to instrument your application or queue manager to expose this metric, and then send it to Dynatrace.
Once the custom metric is available in Dynatrace, you can create a custom chart or dashboard tile to visualize the number of queued messages for each queue over time.