Monitoring your IBM MQ network

A number of monitoring techniques are available in IBM® MQ to obtain statistics and other specific information about how your queue manager network is running. Use the monitoring information and guidance in this section to help improve the performance of your queue manager network.

The following list provides examples of reasons for monitoring your queue manager network:

  • Detect problems in your queue manager network.
  • Assist in determining the causes of problems in your queue manager network.
  • Improve the efficiency of your queue manager network.
  • Familiarize yourself with the running of your queue manager network.
  • Confirm that your queue manager network is running correctly.
  • Generate messages when certain events occur.
  • Record message activity.
  • Determine the last known location of a message.
  • Check various statistics of a queue manager network in real time.
  • Generate an audit trail.
  • Account for application resource usage.
  • Capacity planning.