# IBM MQ Monitoring

IBM MQ (formerly known as IBM WebSphere MQ), IBM's Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) offering, has a primarily queue based infrastructure.

Applications Manager's [middleware monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/middleware-portal-monitoring.html) capabilities allows you to monitor the performance attributes of MQ Objects like channels and queues while also enabling easy alerting, health check and management of your [IBM Integration Bus](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/websphere-mq-broker.html).

Resolve incidents before they become an issue, enjoy improved service levels and reduced risk of downtime within your IBM MQ infrastructure.

## Monitor Queue Manager

- Discovery entire Queue Manager clusters, monitor every individual queue as well as multiple queue mangers on multiple hosts.
- Determine queue usage stats, the percentage of the queue free and track the messages causing problems.
- Find the oldest message age, track excessive queue depths and manage queue traffic.

![Monitor Queue Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/thumb-performance.jpg)

## Monitor Channel Stats

- Get detailed information about channels associated with a specific queue manager.
- Channel-level monitoring provides a graphical representation of various attributes, like the channel traffic (bytes and buffers sent and received).
- Calculate the message count for the selected queue over time, data flow to and from the transmission channel, transmission speeds and compression rates for various time intervals.

![Monitor Channel Stats](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/thumb-channel.jpg)

## Track Performance of more MQ components

- Monitor the health of your messaging system by tracking MQ objects like listener processes of four types of listeners: TCP, NetBIOS, SPX, and LU6.2 and session count.
- Manage and monitor the health of MQ services and create reports on service stats.
- Manage Your MQ Configuration - Configure, change and compare queues, messages, and more

![Monitor listener processes](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/thumb-listeners.jpg)

## Event Log

- Get detailed information about each type of event: queue manager, channel, and performance.
- Generate event messages when certain events occur.
- Monitor command and configuration events, which are very useful for generating audit trails.
- Perform simple event filtering and event search using event name, type and more.
- Generate PDF reports of events stats over various time intervals.

![Get detailed information about events](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/thumb-log.jpg)

## Reduced complexity in managing your middleware

- Manage middleware performance and automation across platforms.
- Get instant performance graphs and reports which can be grouped based on availability, health, and connection time.
- Determine root cause of problems faster and minimize risks associated with performance outages.
- Configure alarms and get immediate notifications of incidents to get your production running.
- Analyze trends to ensure that your IBM MQ environment has ample resources.

![Get instant performance graphs and reports](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/thumb-reports.jpg)

## Related Monitoring

- [IBM Integration Bus](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/websphere-mq-broker.html)
- [Middleware Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/middleware-portal-monitoring.html)
- [WebLogic Integration Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/weblogic-integration.html)
- [MSMQ Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/msmq-monitoring.html)
- [vFabric RabbitMQ Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/rabbitmq-monitoring.html)