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

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**Category:** Extensions\
**Tags:** extensions, queues, ibm-mq\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/can-dynatrace-monitor-the-fact-that-queues-on-middleware-are-filling-up/22386 "2019-10-23T14:36:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![harish\_jawarika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@harish\_jawarika](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/harish_jawarika)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/can-dynatrace-monitor-the-fact-that-queues-on-middleware-are-filling-up/22386/1 "2019-10-23T14:36:35Z")

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

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**Author:** ![david\_n](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/david_n/32/12978_2.png) [@david\_n](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/david_n)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/can-dynatrace-monitor-the-fact-that-queues-on-middleware-are-filling-up/22386/2 "2019-10-23T16:51:11Z")

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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.

> **[IBM MQ tracing](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/infrastructure-observability/queues/configuration/ibm-mq-tracing)**
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> Configure Dynatrace for IBM MQ tracing.

Thanks,

David Nicholls

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**Author:** ![Julius\_Loman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/julius_loman/32/51_2.png) [@Julius\_Loman](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Julius_Loman)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/can-dynatrace-monitor-the-fact-that-queues-on-middleware-are-filling-up/22386/3 "2019-10-25T07:49:48Z")

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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.