IBM MQ hosts monitoring benefits

[Babar_Qayyum]

Dear All,

What are the benefits of monitoring the IBM MQ hosts?

Regards,

Babar

[radek_jasinski]

Hi @Babar_Qayyum 

The main benefits, in my opinion, are that I will first of all provide an in-depth understanding of the performance and stability of the messaging system. This allows you to quickly detect and resolve issues such as message congestion, message delivery problems or queue manager failures. This helps to avoid downtime and ensure the continuity of business-critical applications. In addition, real-time monitoring allows you to optimise resource utilisation, identify performance bottlenecks and improve overall system performance. Monitoring tools also provide important historical data that is invaluable for planning future scalability and infrastructure expansion. As a result, companies can better manage their messaging infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability of systems that are critical to their operations.

Radek

[Babar_Qayyum]

Hello @radek_jasinski 

Thank you for your comments.
In case the queues are monitored through the IBM MQ to monitor the performance of queue manager objects, and hosts are monitored with other infrastructure monitoring tools.

Regards,

Babar Qayyum

[PacoPorro]

Hi @Babar_Qayyum 
Queues and databases are treated as external services, but having the oneagent installed in the underlying servers allows Davis to correlate any problem in the infra.

[Babar_Qayyum]

Hello @PacoPorro 

So, switching the agent from Full-stack to infrastructure should be sufficient to fulfill the correlation requirements. Is my understanding correct?

Regards,

Babar

[PacoPorro]

Keep in mind that IBM MQ comes with Java processes, and those would be injected by the Java agent.
Take a look at the information provided in Full Stack mode , because you can see also information like consume requests at the service level.

[Babar_Qayyum]

Hello @PacoPorro 

Can you please elaborate, as I do not see any detected service on the IBM MQ processes?

Regards,

Babar

[PacoPorro]

An actual example

[Babar_Qayyum]

Hello @PacoPorro 

The IBM MQ Queue Listener is part of the IBM Integration Bus technology and is monitored as full-stack. I was referring to the IBM MQ technology. It seems my question was not right from the beginning, or still, I am missing your point.

Regards,

Babar

[Mizső]

Hi @Babar_Qayyum,

Yes, infra only the is recommended. Another advantage of the oneagent on IBM MQ server, that MQ oneagent extension will not consume DDU opposite the AG MQ extension.

Best regards,

Mizső 

[tijust1]

@Mizső

I have a question regarding the OneAgent extension: If I use the OneAgent extension to collect additional metrics for a specific technology, will it consume DDU?

Or is it only the ActiveGate extension that consumes DDU?

Thanks,

Tijust

[Mizső]

Hi @tijust1,

OneAgent extension consume DDU only in case of the included metrics per host unit is exceeded. It means that most of the cases OneAgent extension does not consume DDU. 

Check this documentation link:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/managed/shortlink/metric-cost-calculation#metrics-per-host-unit

I hope it helps.

Best regards,

Mizső