Descriptions to metrics, inactivity queue monitoring, MQ on AIX

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Descriptions to metrics, inactivity queue monitoring, MQ on AIX #96

Closed wirowka closed 5 years ago

wirowka commented 5 years ago

hi All I have 3 generic questions:

is there any documentation to the metrics exposed by the mq-golang (Prometheus exporter in particular)
we need to implement message feed monitoring (detect that local queue X has not got any message in the last 5 min), which metric could be used to implement it
we have couple of MQ installation on AIX , how we could use this tool monitor MQ in AIX machines (is it at all possible ? or maybe it is possible to run the exporter from remote Linux machine ? Our AIX machines are pretty old unfortunately ...)

Thanks in advance for help Best Regads Lukasz

ibmmqmet commented 5 years ago

There's not a lot of documentation on the specific metrics provided by the qmgr, as they are subject to change over time. The best way to explore what is available is to run the amqsrua program and play with the interactive options.

The qstatus "oldest message" may help with looking at activity. There's nothing else currently available in the public repository for looking at the status, but I do have a local prototype that uses the LastPut/LastGet fields available from the qmgr's DISPLAY QSTATUS output. That'll probably appear in a release soon.

You can connect as a client to AIX qmgrs from a remote Linux system - provided the AIX qmgrs are running at least MQ V9.0

wirowka commented 5 years ago

Great, thank you for the info! We will play with the current version and eagerly waiting for the new one! This is great stuff, thanks for it!

wirowka commented 5 years ago

answers given, thank you!

ibmmqmet commented 5 years ago

ibmmq_queue_time_since_get and ibmmq_queue_time_since_put metrics should now be visible in the latest version