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Introduction to IBM Turbonomics

Hello all, I am back with an interesting discussion. Are you part of a team who works in cloud environments? A hybrid cloud environment? On-premises? Have you been part of the discussions or decisions on costs associated with Cloud environment or was involved in any capacity planning? Having application performance high is important but at what cost? If yes, then well you know how important it is to regulate the costs associated with it. If you are not familiar, no problem let’s start the journey now. Costs are an important piece of all company strategies, and they define the success of an IT project and determine revenue for company. This is where I would like to introduce term “Observability”. The observability solutions offer improvements to reliability, performance, and availability of application. These come under Application Performance Monitoring (APM) ” tools for example IBM Instana, Dynatrace and Elastic. These tools help us determine the performance, the state of applic

Configuring monitoring events in IIB

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  Hello all, greetings!! I am back with a use case which is frequently asked for monitoring transactions in IIB. I do see my colleagues easily setting up the monitoring events in node level and struggle with no monitored events at the destination. For this use case, I will show a simple flow listening on MQ Input node and MQ Output node. No transformations in between. And I will configure the monitoring events and my destination for these events is again an MQ. For creating a monitoring event, select the node properties. Navigate to ‘Monitoring’ and click ‘Add’ Select the event source (terminal), event source address and event name (can be left default). And you can select specific data from incoming payload to obtain a simple or complex field. For demo purpose, I have included the full payload as bit stream. If you see below screenshot, I have configured all possible events for this MQ Input node. This can be set to specific event as per user requirement. For demo pu