Event monitoring

Event monitoring is the process of detecting occurrences of instrumentation events in a queue manager network. An instrumentation event is a logical combination of events that is detected by a queue manager or channel instance. Such an event causes the queue manager or channel instance to put a special message, called an event message, on an event queue.

IBM® MQ instrumentation events provide information about errors, warnings, and other significant occurrences in a queue manager. Use these events to monitor the operation of the queue managers in your queue manager network to achieve the following goals:

• Detect problems in your queue manager network.
• Assist in determining the causes of problems in your queue manager network.
• Generate an audit trail.
• React to queue manager state changes