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IBM MQ integration

Version	1.6.1 (View all)
Compatible Kibana version(s)	8.13.0 or higher 9.0.0 or higher
Supported Serverless project types What’s this?	Security Observability
Subscription level What’s this?	Basic
Level of support What’s this?	Elastic

Overview

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IBM MQ is a message-oriented middleware for secure and reliable communication between distributed systems. It supports messaging patterns like queuing, publish/subscribe, and assures message delivery without a direct connection between sender and receiver.

Use the IBM MQ integration to:

Collect Queue Manager performance metrics and error logs, providing insights into messages, topics, subscriptions, and operational events.
Streamline observability by ingesting IBM MQ metrics and logs into Elasticsearch, enabling centralized monitoring and analysis of IBM MQ environments.
Enhance system reliability through real-time analysis and proactive alerting based on collected metrics and logs.

Data streams

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The IBM MQ integration collects logs and metrics data.

Logs provide insights into operations and events within the IBM MQ environment. The errorlog data stream collected by the IBM MQ integration enables users to track errors and warnings, understand their causes, and address issues related to message handling and processing.

Metrics provide statistics on the performance and health of IBM MQ. The qmgr data stream collected by the IBM MQ integration covers Queue Manager performance metrics, including message throughput, topics, subscriptions, and other operational statistics. This allows users to monitor and optimize the performance and reliability of their IBM MQ instances.

Data streams:

errorlog: Collects error and warning messages from the IBM MQ Queue Manager, providing details like error descriptions, actions, explanations, and error codes.
qmgr: Collects performance metrics from the Queue Manager, including message throughput, topics, subscriptions, and other vital operational statistics.

Note:

Users can monitor and view logs within the ingested documents for IBM MQ using the logs-* index pattern in Discover. For metrics, the corresponding index pattern is metrics-*.

Compatibility

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This integration has been tested against IBM MQ v9.1 and IBM MQ v9.2. Currently, the ibmmq qmgr data stream is only compatible with the containerized versions of IBM MQ, such as those available from IBM Cloud Container Registry or Docker Hub.

Prerequisites

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Users require Elasticsearch for storing and searching their data, and Kibana for visualizing and managing it. They can use our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, which is recommended, or self-manage the Elastic Stack on their own hardware.

In order to ingest data from IBM MQ:

User should specify Hostname and Port (example: localhost:9157) of Prometheus endpoint (/metrics).
User should specify the path of IBM MQ Queue Manager Error logs. (default paths: /var/mqm/errors/*.LOG and /var/mqm/qmgrs/*/errors/*.LOG)

Setup

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For step-by-step instructions on how to set up an integration, see the Getting started guide.

Steps to setup Prometheus

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Enable Metrics in IBM MQ: Ensure that the MQ_ENABLE_METRICS environment variable is set to true for user’s IBM MQ service to expose the metrics endpoint.

The Docker image starts the runmqserver process, which spawns the HTTP server exposing metrics in Prometheus format on port 9157.

Validation

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After the integration is successfully configured, clicking on the Assets tab of the IBM MQ Integration should display a list of available dashboards. Click on the dashboard available for user’s configured data stream. It should be populated with the required data.

Troubleshooting

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In version 1.3.0 of this integration, the field type of ibmmq.errorlog.error.description has been changed from text to keyword `. It is therefore recommended to update the `ibmmq.errorlog.error.description field to use the keyword type wherever it is being used. This can be achieved by using the Update By Query API, allowing for a seamless transition of the field type from text to keyword facross all relevant documents.

Metrics reference

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Queue Manager performance metrics

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The qmgr data stream collects performance metrics of Queue Manager like messages, topics, subscriptions and calls.

Example

An example event for qmgr looks as following:

{
    "@timestamp": "2024-05-28T10:25:41.537Z",
    "agent": {
        "ephemeral_id": "2a2b7004-c50a-4ee2-9bc6-78d99713b117",
        "id": "476beedd-c7de-4696-a85b-d20aa455d46a",
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "type": "metricbeat",
        "version": "8.12.0"
    },
    "data_stream": {
        "dataset": "ibmmq.qmgr",
        "namespace": "ep",
        "type": "metrics"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "8.11.0"
    },
    "elastic_agent": {
        "id": "476beedd-c7de-4696-a85b-d20aa455d46a",
        "snapshot": false,
        "version": "8.12.0"
    },
    "event": {
        "agent_id_status": "verified",
        "category": [
            "web"
        ],
        "dataset": "ibmmq.qmgr",
        "duration": 15347292,
        "ingested": "2024-05-28T10:25:53Z",
        "kind": "metric",
        "module": "ibmmq",
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "host": {
        "architecture": "x86_64",
        "containerized": true,
        "hostname": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "id": "829324aac17946dcace17006fa82a2d2",
        "ip": [
            "192.168.243.9"
        ],
        "mac": [
            "02-42-AC-1F-00-07"
        ],
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "os": {
            "codename": "focal",
            "family": "debian",
            "kernel": "3.10.0-1160.102.1.el7.x86_64",
            "name": "Ubuntu",
            "platform": "ubuntu",
            "type": "linux",
            "version": "20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
        }
    },
    "ibmmq": {
        "labels": {
            "job": "ibmmq",
            "qmgr": "QM1"
        },
        "qmgr": {
            "calls": {
                "failed": {
                    "callback": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "close": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "connections": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "get": {
                        "count": 2
                    },
                    "inquire": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "open": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "set": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "subscription_request": {
                        "count": 0
                    }
                },
                "succeeded": {
                    "callback": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "close": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "connections": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "control": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "disconnect": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "inquire": {
                        "count": 4
                    },
                    "open": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "set": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "status": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "subscription_request": {
                        "count": 0
                    }
                }
            },
            "destructive": {
                "get": {
                    "bytes": 4868,
                    "count": 13
                }
            },
            "log": {
                "written": {
                    "bytes": {
                        "logical": 0,
                        "physical": 0
                    }
                }
            },
            "messages": {
                "commit": {
                    "count": 0
                },
                "expired": {
                    "count": 0
                },
                "failed": {
                    "browse": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "mq": {
                        "put": {
                            "count": 0
                        },
                        "put1": {
                            "count": 0
                        }
                    }
                },
                "mq": {
                    "put": {
                        "bytes": 4868,
                        "count": 13
                    }
                },
                "non_persistent": {
                    "browse": {
                        "bytes": 0,
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "destructive": {
                        "get": {
                            "count": 13
                        }
                    },
                    "get": {
                        "bytes": 4868
                    },
                    "mq": {
                        "put": {
                            "count": 13
                        },
                        "put1": {
                            "count": 0
                        }
                    },
                    "put": {
                        "bytes": 4868
                    }
                },
                "persistent": {
                    "browse": {
                        "bytes": 0,
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "destructive": {
                        "get": {
                            "count": 0
                        }
                    },
                    "get": {
                        "bytes": 0
                    },
                    "mq": {
                        "put": {
                            "count": 0
                        },
                        "put1": {
                            "count": 0
                        }
                    },
                    "put": {
                        "bytes": 0
                    }
                },
                "published": {
                    "subscribers": {
                        "bytes": 3500,
                        "count": 13
                    }
                },
                "purged": {
                    "queue": {
                        "count": 0
                    }
                }
            },
            "rollback": {
                "count": 0
            },
            "subscription": {
                "durable": {
                    "alter": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "create": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "delete": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "resume": {
                        "count": 0
                    }
                },
                "failed": {
                    "create_alter_resume": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "delete": {
                        "count": 0
                    }
                },
                "non_durable": {
                    "create": {
                        "count": 0
                    },
                    "delete": {
                        "count": 0
                    }
                }
            },
            "topic": {
                "mq": {
                    "put": {
                        "count": 13,
                        "failed": {
                            "count": 0
                        },
                        "non_persistent": {
                            "count": 13
                        },
                        "persistent": {
                            "count": 0
                        }
                    }
                },
                "put": {
                    "bytes": 3500
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "collector",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "address": "http://elastic-package-service-ibmmq-1:9157/metrics",
        "type": "ibmmq"
    },
    "tags": [
        "ibmmq-qmgr"
    ]
}

ECS Field Reference

Please refer to the following document for detailed information on ECS fields.

Exported fields

Field	Description	Type	Metric Type
@timestamp	Event timestamp.	date
agent.id	Unique identifier of this agent (if one exists). Example: For Beats this would be beat.id.	keyword
cloud.account.id	The cloud account or organization id used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account id, Google Cloud ORG Id, or other unique identifier.	keyword
cloud.availability_zone	Availability zone in which this host, resource, or service is located.	keyword
cloud.instance.id	Instance ID of the host machine.	keyword
cloud.provider	Name of the cloud provider. Example values are aws, azure, gcp, or digitalocean.	keyword
cloud.region	Region in which this host, resource, or service is located.	keyword
container.id	Unique container id.	keyword
data_stream.dataset	Data stream dataset.	constant_keyword
data_stream.namespace	Data stream namespace.	constant_keyword
data_stream.type	Data stream type.	constant_keyword
host.name	Name of the host. It can contain what hostname returns on Unix systems, the fully qualified domain name (FQDN), or a name specified by the user. The recommended value is the lowercase FQDN of the host.	keyword
ibmmq.labels.job	Prometheus label job.	keyword
ibmmq.labels.qmgr	Name of Queue Manager.	keyword
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.callback.count	Failed MQCB count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.close.count	Failed MQCLOSE count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.connections.count	Failed MQCONN/MQCONNX count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.get.count	Failed MQGET - count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.inquire.count	Failed MQINQ count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.open.count	Failed MQOPEN count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.set.count	Failed MQSET count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.failed.subscription_request.count	Failed MQSUBRQ count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.callback.count	MQCB count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.close.count	MQCLOSE count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.connections.count	MQCONN/MQCONNX count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.control.count	MQCTL count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.disconnect.count	MQDISC count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.inquire.count	MQINQ count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.open.count	MQOPEN count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.set.count	MQSET count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.status.count	MQSTAT count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.calls.succeeded.subscription_request.count	MQSUBRQ count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.destructive.get.bytes	Interval total destructive get - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.destructive.get.count	Interval total destructive get - count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.log.written.bytes.logical	Log - logical bytes written.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.log.written.bytes.physical	Log - physical bytes written.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.commit.count	Commit count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.expired.count	Expired message count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.failed.browse.count	Failed browse count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.failed.mq.put.count	Failed MQPUT count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.failed.mq.put1.count	Failed MQPUT1 count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.mq.put.bytes	Interval total MQPUT/MQPUT1 byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.mq.put.count	Interval total MQPUT/MQPUT1 count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.non_persistent.browse.bytes	Non-persistent message browse - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.non_persistent.browse.count	Non-persistent message browse - count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.non_persistent.destructive.get.count	Non-persistent message destructive get - count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.non_persistent.get.bytes	Got non-persistent messages - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.non_persistent.mq.put.count	Non-persistent message MQPUT count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.non_persistent.mq.put1.count	Non-persistent message MQPUT1 count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.non_persistent.put.bytes	Put non-persistent messages - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.persistent.browse.bytes	Persistent message browse - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.persistent.browse.count	Persistent message browse - count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.persistent.destructive.get.count	Persistent message destructive get - count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.persistent.get.bytes	Get persistent messages - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.persistent.mq.put.count	Persistent message MQPUT count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.persistent.mq.put1.count	Persistent message MQPUT1 count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.persistent.put.bytes	Put persistent messages - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.published.subscribers.bytes	Published to subscribers - byte count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.published.subscribers.count	Published to subscribers - message count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.messages.purged.queue.count	Purged queue count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.rollback.count	Rollback count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.durable.alter.count	Alter durable subscription count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.durable.create.count	Create durable subscription count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.durable.delete.count	Delete durable subscription count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.durable.resume.count	Resume durable subscription count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.failed.create_alter_resume.count	Failed create/alter/resume subscription count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.failed.delete.count	Subscription delete failure count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.non_durable.create.count	Create non-durable subscription count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.subscription.non_durable.delete.count	Delete non-durable subscription count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.topic.mq.put.count	Topic MQPUT/MQPUT1 interval total.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.topic.mq.put.failed.count	Failed topic MQPUT/MQPUT1 count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.topic.mq.put.non_persistent.count	Non-persistent - topic MQPUT/MQPUT1 count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.topic.mq.put.persistent.count	Persistent - topic MQPUT/MQPUT1 count.	long	counter
ibmmq.qmgr.topic.put.bytes	Interval total topic bytes put.	long	counter
service.address	Address where data about this service was collected from. This should be a URI, network address (ipv4:port or [ipv6]:port) or a resource path (sockets).	keyword

Logs reference

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Queue Manager Error logs

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The errorlog data stream collects Error logs of Queue Manager which include the description, action, explanation and code of the error.

Example

An example event for errorlog looks as following:

{
    "@timestamp": "2024-05-28T10:29:59.860Z",
    "agent": {
        "ephemeral_id": "cbbb6e1e-c10f-4635-bb3e-b42063268637",
        "id": "476beedd-c7de-4696-a85b-d20aa455d46a",
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "type": "filebeat",
        "version": "8.12.0"
    },
    "data_stream": {
        "dataset": "ibmmq.errorlog",
        "namespace": "ep",
        "type": "logs"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "8.11.0"
    },
    "elastic_agent": {
        "id": "476beedd-c7de-4696-a85b-d20aa455d46a",
        "snapshot": false,
        "version": "8.12.0"
    },
    "event": {
        "agent_id_status": "verified",
        "created": "2024-05-28T10:30:26.219Z",
        "dataset": "ibmmq.errorlog",
        "ingested": "2024-05-28T10:30:38Z",
        "kind": "event",
        "module": "ibmmq",
        "type": [
            "error"
        ]
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "99726abecb7d",
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent"
    },
    "ibmmq": {
        "errorlog": {
            "error": {
                "action": "Host Info :- Linux 3.10.0-1160.102.1.el7.x86_64 (MQ Linux (x86-64 platform) 64-bit) Installation :- /opt/mqm (Installation1) Version :- 9.2.4.0 (p924-L211105.DE) ACTION: None.",
                "code": "AMQ6287I",
                "description": "IBM MQ V9.2.4.0 (p924-L211105.DE).",
                "explanation": "IBM MQ system"
            },
            "insert": {
                "comment": [
                    "Linux 3.10.0-1160.102.1.el7.x86_64 (MQ Linux (x86-64 platform) 64-bit)",
                    "/opt/mqm (Installation1)",
                    "9.2.4.0 (p924-L211105.DE)"
                ]
            },
            "installation": "Installation1"
        }
    },
    "input": {
        "type": "log"
    },
    "log": {
        "file": {
            "path": "/tmp/service_logs/AMQERR01.LOG"
        },
        "flags": [
            "multiline"
        ],
        "offset": 0
    },
    "process": {
        "pid": 58.1,
        "title": "crtmqm"
    },
    "service": {
        "version": "9.2.4.0"
    },
    "tags": [
        "forwarded",
        "ibmmq-errorlog"
    ],
    "user": {
        "name": "root"
    }
}

ECS Field Reference

Please refer to the following document for detailed information on ECS fields.

Exported fields

Field	Description	Type
@timestamp	Event timestamp.	date
data_stream.dataset	Data stream dataset.	constant_keyword
data_stream.namespace	Data stream namespace.	constant_keyword
data_stream.type	Data stream type.	constant_keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.error.action	Defines what to do when the error occurs.	keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.error.code	Error code.	keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.error.description	Error description.	keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.error.explanation	Explains the error in more detail.	keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.insert.arith	Changing content based on error.id.	keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.insert.comment	Changing content based on error.id.	keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.installation	This is the installation name which can be given at installation time. Each installation of IBM MQ on UNIX, Linux, and Windows, has a unique identifier known as an installation name. The installation name is used to associate things such as queue managers and configuration files with an installation.	keyword
ibmmq.errorlog.queue_manager	Name of the queue manager. Queue managers provide queuing services to applications, and manages the queues that belong to them.	keyword
input.type	The input type from which the event was generated. This field is set to the value specified for the type option in the input section of the Filebeat config file.	keyword
log.flags	This field contains the flags of the event.	keyword
log.offset	The file offset the reported line starts at.	long

Changelog

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Changelog

Version	Details	Kibana version(s)
1.6.1	Bug fix (View pull request) Added description to ssl nodes including links to documentation.	8.13.0 or higher 9.0.0 or higher
1.6.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Add support for Kibana `9.0.0`.	8.13.0 or higher 9.0.0 or higher
1.5.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Allow the usage of deprecated log input and support for stack 9.0	8.13.0 or higher
1.4.2	Bug fix (View pull request) Update links to getting started docs	8.13.0 or higher
1.4.1	Enhancement (View pull request) Update the IBM MQ compatibility section.	8.13.0 or higher
1.4.0	Enhancement (View pull request) ECS version updated to 8.11.0. Update the kibana constraint to ^8.13.0. Modified the field definitions to remove ECS fields made redundant by the ecs@mappings component template.	8.13.0 or higher
1.3.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Enable secret for the `password` field and add dashboard-level filters.	8.12.0 or higher
1.2.5	Bug fix (View pull request) Drop empty events from errorlog data stream responses.	8.8.0 or higher
1.2.4	Bug fix (View pull request) Add null and ignore_missing check to handle event.original field.	8.8.0 or higher
1.2.3	Bug fix (View pull request) Remove forwarded tag from metrics data stream.	8.8.0 or higher
1.2.2	Bug fix (View pull request) Update the docker image.	8.8.0 or higher
1.2.1	Enhancement (View pull request) Update description for compatibility	8.8.0 or higher
1.2.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Enable time series data streams for the metrics datasets. This dramatically reduces storage for metrics and is expected to progressively improve query performance. For more details, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tsds.html.	8.8.0 or higher
1.1.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Added metric_type mappings for qmgr datastream for TSDB enablement	8.5.0 or higher
1.0.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Make IBM MQ GA	8.5.0 or higher
0.6.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Added dimension fields for qmgr datastream for TSDB enablement	—
0.5.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Rename ownership from obs-service-integrations to obs-infraobs-integrations	—
0.4.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Migrate visualizations to lens.	—
0.3.1	Enhancement (View pull request) Added categories and/or subcategories.	—
0.3.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Update ECS version to 8.5.1	—
0.2.0	Enhancement (View pull request) Added infrastructure category.	—
0.1.1	Enhancement (View pull request) IBM MQ integration package with "qmgr" data stream	—
0.1.0	Enhancement (View pull request) IBM MQ integration package with "errorlog" data stream	—

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