IBM MQ extension timeframe increase

[vishal_shenduri]

Hello Everyone,

I have few questions about IBM MQ Oneagent extension.

Is there a way where we can increase the time to collect the IBM MQ metrics as currently every minute it will collect those metrics and send it back to Dynatrace but we want to make this time as 5 minutes so that we can consume less DDU's.

My first thought to check the mq plugin script but didn't find any time variable that runs script every minute please let me know where I can tweak this time so that metrics are captured every 5 minutes.

Thanks,

Vishal

[Mizső]

Hi @vishal_shenduri,

Maybe @Mike_L or his team have an information about it but I guess it is not possible now. So maybe you should raies a product idea.

Best regards,

Mizső

[Mike_L · Accepted solution]

This is not possible or planned as it would lower the quality of Davis detecting anomalies. With the move to Extension Framework 2.0 we will introduce feature sets where you can lower the number of metrics retrieved. You can now already gather metrics only for specific queues/listeners/channels to lower the DDU consumption.

[CTull]

Hi Mike, would you just adjust the sampling for the window timeframe?

Another means to do this is a workflow to enable and disable your monitoring every so many minutes.  Cost to the workflow though and its execution but could save you a few in costs.
This is an example logic, just adjust your timeframes and api endpoints etc.

[Mizső]

Hi @vishal_shenduri,

Maybe you are aware about the configuration of the extension but anyway maybe it can be useful for others: here is an AG MQ extension config where we can filter the channels and queues. These filters can be rules or a simple list of channels or queues

I hope it helps.

Best regards,

Mizső