The Z Data Analytics Platform in IBM Z® Operational Log and Data Analytics provides the ability to visualize
and search through large quantities of Z operational data on a single pane of glass. The dashboards
and saved searches provide ready-to-use insights into the operational data and help with early
problem detection and problem diagnosis.
Flow of source data on the Z Data Analytics Platform
Figure 1 illustrates the data flow among
components. The step numbers correspond to the numbers that are used in the illustration.Figure 1. Flow of source data on the Z Data Analytics Platform
In each z/OS® logical partition (LPAR), the Z Common Data Provider
retrieves operational data from the configured sources and sends it to the Apache Kafka broker.
The source data is parsed and indexed into the NoSQL data store.
You can see predefined searches and visualizations of the data in the dashboards and search GUI.
Insights are provided for data from the following source types:
z/OS system log (z/OS SYSLOG)
CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS EYULOG or MSGUSR log data
Network data, such as data from UNIX System Services system log (syslogd) or z/OS Communications Server
NetView for z/OS message data
SMF data
WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS logs that include SYSOUT or SYSPRINT log data
The system searches the problem insights for known problems and presents them in the Problem
Insights GUI.
