topic Re: Can DynaTrace monitor the fact that queues on middleware are filling up (if the agent resides on the application, not the middleware)? in Extensions

Can Dynatrace monitor the fact that queues on middleware are filling up?

harish_jawarika — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:10:53 GMT

Can Dynatrace monitor the fact that queues on middleware are filling up (if the agent resides on the application, not the middleware).

Re: Can DynaTrace monitor the fact that queues on middleware are filling up (if the agent resides on the application, not the middleware)?

david_n — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:51:11 GMT

Hello Harish,

If you are referring to messaging queues, you might want to take a look at the MQ plugin. This runs on the ActiveGate so it is a remote plugin that does not need the agent to be running on the host to pull in MQ metrics.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/application-software/other-technologies/dynatrace-extension-required/ibm-mq/

Thanks,

David Nicholls

Re: Can DynaTrace monitor the fact that queues on middleware are filling up (if the agent resides on the application, not the middleware)?

Julius_Loman — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:49:48 GMT

Without monitoring the messaging queue depth (IBM MQ / Tibco EMS / ... ) the only method I can think of would be to define service-level metrics (EAP at this time) on the application side.

However, monitoring queue depths would be more precise by querying the underlying messaging technology for metrics.