IBM Z Monitoring Suite

Monitor and manage your z/OS environment with problem insights and open platform integration

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Comprehensive monitoring for IBM Z

IBM Z® Monitoring Suite provides comprehensive, near real-time performance and anomaly analysis for z/OS®, networks, storage, Java™ runtimes, Db2®, CICS®, IMS and IBM MQ. It also provides Integration Bus for z/OS, App Connect: Enterprise on Z and WebSphere® Liberty servers, z/OS Connect application programming interfaces (APIs) and more.

It includes a modern Grafana-based interface with detailed dashboards for visualization, analysis and alerting across multiple agents to quickly identify and remediate issues. The IBM Z OMEGAMON® Web UI enables administrative actions and situation editing, fostering greater collaboration and efficiency in managing the z/OS platform.

Updates in IBM Z Monitoring Suite
Get operational insights

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

Achieve in-depth visibility

Consolidate key metrics into custom composite dashboards to bring mainframe management data and tasks into a modern Grafana-based interface. Integrate OMEGAMON metrics with APM and AI platforms.

Outsmart performance issues

Prioritize, isolate issues and use automated tools to resolve them. Help prevent outages and performance problems with intelligent alerts, targeted reporting and linkages to related tools. 

Isolate problems

Detect bottlenecks in code, server resources and absent external dependencies. Monitor transactions inflight and capture diagnostic traces dynamically for faster problem analysis.

Products included

Explore the component products that monitor z/OS systems and their applications and data.

Manage the health of the Z platform, a comprehensive performance and availability solution, to proactively analyze and manage operating systems, databases or other environments for optimal performance.

The OMEGAMON products that are included in the suite:

A web-based, customizable dashboard that unifies mainframe management data and tasks from multiple sources into one environment. It supports monitoring and automation to isolate and diagnose issues, issue commands and view results in a single interface. Integrated visibility across tools such as IBM OMEGAMON, IBM Z System Automation, IBM Z NetView®, IBM Z Workload Scheduler, and IBM Z Operations Analytics helps improve system health and reduce resolution times.

An integrated, layered architecture of configuration management, data access, communication and presentation components, which enables cross-platform operation and enterprise-wide data integration for systems management. It includes the next-generation IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI, leveraging the OMEGAMON Data Requester in Grafana with web-based administration and enhanced dashboards for all OMEGAMON agents.

Ensures the availability and performance of critical Java applications by monitoring the health of Java virtual machines and hosted services. Provides proactive alerting and captures heap, thread and method dumps for real-time diagnostics. Historical data collection supports performance reporting and capacity planning.

Delivers chatbot capabilities that provide access to IBM Z management tools such as IBM Z System Automation, IBM OMEGAMON, IBM Z NetView and IBM Z Workload Scheduler within collaboration platforms such as Slack, Mattermost and Microsoft Teams. It enables teams to collaborate on IBM Z events and use machine learning-based recommendations to isolate and resolve issues faster.

Provides a single data source for accessing IT operational data from z/OS. The data is then streamed to analytics platforms in a consumable format. It supports structured and unstructured data and delivers near real-time feeds of SMF data, OMEGAMON data and z/OS log data to enhance observability and analysis.

A containerized component that manages and formats z/OS resource data for modern API-based access. It helps identify and visualize relationships between IBM Z resources and provides a standard graph API for dependency mapping. It also automates discovery to accurately link IBM Z resources with ServiceNow.

A React-based UI component that provides network-style visualizations. It can be imported as a node library and configured through its interface. It can also be connected to data sources by implementing and registering a data provider.

An optional z/OS feature that collects data on system resource usage and generates detailed performance reports. Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) provides insights into system activity across all systems in a sysplex to support performance analysis and capacity planning.

Technical details

System requirements

For detailed information about the system requirements, run a software product compatibility report for IBM Z Monitoring Suite.

Adding to existing installations

If you are installing IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS or IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 6.1 with existing installations of 5.5 or 5.6, there are some coexistence considerations to plan for.

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Take the next step

Unlock the power of IBM Z® OMEGAMON® with the Deployment Concierge Program


Accelerate your success with our no cost, white glove deployment experience. The IBM Z OMEGAMON Deployment Concierge Program connects you directly with seasoned IBM experts - professionals with decades of hands-on experience - to help you deploy, configure, or upgrade your OMEGAMON environment with total confidence. Whether you’re launching OMEGAMON for the first time or optimizing a mature environment, you’ll receive industry leading best practices, personalized guidance, and a frictionless path to a smooth, high quality pre-production deployment.

Contact your IBM representative today, to learn more about this program.