07 Apr 2026 03:28 PM
Does the IBM MQ extension map count the channel instances per sub-state correctly?
When have a rather strange "Data explorer" view when monitoring a certain MQ channel and amount if instances. Initially, we are *only* interested in amount of channel instances over time, but the Dynatrace graph showed unexpected gaps and sudden switches in color.
When inspecting in more detail, I discovered that the "rare" color switches are linked to MQ "substate" differences. In most cases, it is labelled "Network receive", while sometimes it swaps to "Executing MQI call".
Problem is that Dynatrace seems to report a different pattern compared to my local MQ Explorer client: both indicate that most of the time, there are about 20 instances in use, but in MQ Explorer marks most of them as "Receiving", only sometimes, maximum handful as "In MQI call". On the other hand, in Dynatrace, it seems to flag *ALL* instances as "Executing MQI call", OR "Network receive", even when I use the "Split by" function with "Channel substate".
Is it possible that the IBM MQ extension is generating wrong statistics? Or am I doing something wrong?
07 Apr 2026 03:53 PM
I attached a separate "expected" graph what I would consider as "normal" based on my observations.
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