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.

WebSphere MQ instrumentation events provide information about errors, warnings, and other significant occurrences in a queue manager. We can use these events to monitor the operation of the queue managers in your queue manager network, allowing you to do the following:

For more information on event monitoring, see An introduction to instrumentation events.