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Workspace Instana
Categories MQ
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 10, 2025

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Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: 
Deliver a single,  Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom dashboard creation.

📊 Suggested Dashboard Structure: 

Overview

Total Queue Managers monitored

Total monitored Queues

Total Active Channels

Total Connections

Global status (green/yellow/red based on thresholds or anomalies)

Queue Metrics

Depth of monitored queues (min, max, average)

Messages in Dead Letter Queues (DLQ)

Oldest message age (for latency insights)

Channel Metrics

Number of active channels

Channel status (running, stopped, retrying)

Channel errors/retries

Connection Metrics

Current connections per Queue Manager

Peak connections over time

Connection failures / refused connections

Performance & Reliability

Message throughput (put/get rates)

Average latency per operation

Uptime of Queue Managers

📌 Benefits:
Standardization: Essential MQ KPIs available out-of-the-box
Operational efficiency: Faster root cause analysis without manual dashboards.
Comparability: Aligns IBM MQ monitoring in Instana with Dynatrace’s model, easing migration
Time-to-value: Delivers insights immediately after deploying the MQ Sensor

Idea priority High

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