Performance data collectors

There are four collectors on IBM® i that have access to and can collect the data. Each of the collectors has unique characteristics.

Collection Services
Collection Services provides for the collection of system and job level performance data. It is the primary collector of performance data.
IBM i Job Watcher
IBM i Job Watcher provides for the collection of job data for any or all jobs, threads, and tasks on the system. It provides call stacks, SQL statements, objects being waited on, Java™ JVM statistics, wait statistics and more which are used to diagnose job related performance problems.
IBM i Disk Watcher
IBM i Disk Watcher provides for the collection of disk performance data to diagnose disk related performance problems.
Performance Explorer
Performance Explorer collects more detailed information about a specific application, program or system resource, and provides detailed insight into a specific performance problem. This includes the capability both to perform several types and levels of traces and to run detailed reports.

Parent topic: Applications for performance management