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Instana is a product which helps you achieve both monitoring and observability. Instana has agent which runs on IBMi and can monitor other IBMi lpars using remote monitoring. Configuration of the monitors is done using yaml file:
Key metrics which Instana is capturing:
Active jobs Threads Auxiliary storage pool consumption Temporary storage Total spool space
Events and Alerting feature of Instana Instana has the capability to generate an alert whenever user defined message ID, queue library and queue name combination matches for any of the incoming messages in the message queue within the specified time (like last 10 minutes). These alerts will enable you to take any necessary action sooner.
Whenever a message is produced which is being monitored using yaml file is picked up by instana and corresponding alert is generated.
