IBM Z Integration for Observability

Elevate observability on z/OS by streaming OMEGAMON performance data to open platforms and instant chat tools

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Unified observability for IBM Z

IBM Z® Integration for Observability expands access to standalone IBM OMEGAMON® agents, enabling new data integration and collaborative user experiences.

Combining mainframe and hybrid cloud metrics is key to modernizing your observability platform. With IBM Z Integration for Observability, you can stream OMEGAMON metrics to open AIOps platforms such as IBM Instana®, IBM Concert® for Z, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Splunk, Kafka and Prometheus. This integration allows you to apply analytics that strengthen resiliency across hybrid cloud environments.

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Benefits
Improve flexibility in analytics

Supply data to IBM analytics solutions or any AI platform, such as IBM Concert for Z, Elastic Stack®, IBM Instana and Splunk®.
Simplify data management

Consolidate data from disparate sources in a unified service management dashboard and send to other tools.
Improve resolution time

Reduce resolution time and improve collaboration by using IBM Z ChatOps or other chat tools.

Why act now?

As an IT manager aiming to enhance operational observability, unifying insights across mainframe and distributed platforms is essential.

IBM Z Integration for Observability provides the core infrastructure to achieve this integration for IBM OMEGAMON clients not entitled to the IBM Z Monitoring Suite or IBM Z Service Management Suite. It enables streaming OMEGAMON data into a single service management dashboard and sharing it with other observability tools without upgrading to a suite, helping you maximize AIOps-driven visibility across hybrid cloud environments.
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Features
Single service management dashboard

Stream and publish OMEGAMON data from a service management dashboard to open AI platforms to correlate events.
Collaborative interface

Visualize data from multiple sources in a single source dashboard and collaborate by using a chat platform.
Visibility across hybrid cloud application

Experience mobile-to-mainframe view and the ability to correlate events across the hybrid topology with IBM Cloud Pak® for AIOps.

Included IBM product components

Tivoli Management Services

Provides security, data transfer and storage, notification, user interface and communication services for IBM OMEGAMON suites that use an agent, server or client architecture.
IBM Z Resource Discovery Visualization Service

A React-based UI component that delivers network-style visual graphs. It can be imported as a node library, configured through its interface and connected to data sources by implementing and registering a data provider.
IBM Z Common Data Provider with Apache Kafka

Provides the infrastructure to access IT operational data from z/OS® systems and stream it to analytics platforms in a consumable format.
IBM Z ChatOps

Delivers chatbot capabilities that provide access to information from IBM Z management tools within collaboration platforms such as Slack. It can notify operations teams of IBM Z events and share machine learning-based recommendations to help isolate and resolve issues quickly.
IBM Z Automation Web Console

Formerly IBM Service Management Unite, a web-based, customizable dashboard that consolidates mainframe management data and tasks into a single interface. It supports monitoring and automating event responses, enabling users to diagnose issues, issue commands and view results in one environment.
IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor

Displays performance data from multiple sources, including OMEGAMON monitors and third-party software, in a unified view. It provides near real-time and historical insights into operating system and subsystem performance. It also streams OMEGAMON metrics to open AIOps platforms such as IBM Instana, IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, Elastic Stack, Splunk, Kafka and Prometheus for deeper visibility into z/OS performance.
IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service

A containerized component that generates graphical analyses to reveal relationships among IBM Z system resources. It helps map dependencies through a standard graph API and automates discovery to accurately connect IBM Z resources with platforms such as ServiceNow.
Use cases
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Observability across hybrid cloud

Enable application observability across hybrid cloud with visibility into IBM Z systems metrics and log data.
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Hybrid topology-based event correlation

Diagnose system issues by correlating events from OMEGAMON and multiple data sources across hybrid topologies.
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Operational insights with AI

Enable IT teams to proactively track anomalies for predefined use cases and define alert thresholds with OMEGAMON AI insights.

Technical details

Before you use IBM Z Integration for Observability, ensure that the requirements for operating systems, software and hardware are met.

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