TIBCO EMSTIBCO EMS
Automatic and intelligent observability with trace and metric insights.
Extension
- Product information
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Overview
With Dynatrace, you can get observability for TIBCO EMS without touching any code, thanks to automatic monitoring. Seamless end-to-end traces for connected producer and consumer services allow you to diagnose anomalies and pinpoint the root cause of the broken code before your customers are affected. Comprehensive metrics give you insight into the health and performance of your TIBCO EMS brokers, queues, and topics. Events point you to critical anomalies, reducing the mean time to repair.
Use cases
- Capture every message across tiers without blind spots.
- Troubleshoot asynchronous service problems across your stack proactively.
- Improve the performance of your producer and consumer services end-to-end.
- Prevent message processing anomalies to reduce the mean time to repair.
- Monitor the health and performance of all your brokers, topics, and queues.
Extension content
Content typeNumber of items included
screen layout
8
metric metadata
41
screen logs cards
2
list screen layout
4
document dashboard
1
screen events cards
2
screen injections
4
screen actions
8
screen entities lists
9
dashboards
1
generic relationship
5
generic type
4
screen chart groups
20
screen properties
4
screen dql table
5
Feature sets
Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.
Feature setsNumber of metrics included
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queue receiver count | EMS2.QueueReceivers | Number of receivers | Count |
| Queue Depth | EMS2.QueueDepth | Number of messages pending in queue | Count |
| Queue pending message size | EMS2.QueueMsgSize | Size of messages pending in queue | KiloByte |
| Queue inbound total messages | EMS2.QueueInboundMsgTotal.count | Total number of incoming messages | Count |
| Queue outbound total messages | EMS2.QueueOutboundMsgTotal.count | Total number of outbound messages | Count |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topic outbound message size rate | EMS2.TopicOutboundMsgSizeRate | Rate of messages removed from the topic by size | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Topic outbound message rate | EMS2.TopicOutboundMsgRate | Rate of messages removed from the topic | PerSecond |
| Topic inbound message size rate | EMS2.TopicInboundMsgSizeRate | Rate of messages coming in to the topic by size | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Topic inbound message rate | EMS2.TopicInboundMsgRate | Rate of messages coming in to the topic | PerSecond |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inbound message count rate | EMS2.BrokerInboundMsgCountRate | Rate of inbound messages | PerSecond |
| Outbound message count rate | EMS2.BrokerOutboundMsgCountRate | Rate of outbound messages | PerSecond |
| Topics count | EMS2.BrokerTopicCount | Number of topics | Count |
| Queues count | EMS2.BrokerQueueCount | Number of queues | Count |
| Clients count | EMS2.BrokerClientCount | Number of clients | Count |
| Sessions count | EMS2.BrokerSessionCount | Number of sessions | Count |
| Producers count | EMS2.BrokerProducerCount | Number of producers | Count |
| Consumers count | EMS2.BrokerConsumerCount | Number of consumers | Count |
| Durables count | EMS2.BrokerDurableCount | Number of durables | Count |
| Pending messages count | EMS2.BrokerPendingMsgCount | Number of pending messages | Count |
| Pending messages size | EMS2.BrokerPendingMsgSize | Size of all pending messages | KiloByte |
| Memory usage | EMS2.BrokerMemoryUsage | - | Percent |
| Memory usage in KB | EMS2.BrokerMemoryUsageKB | - | KiloByte |
| Memory pooled | EMS2.BrokerMemoryPooled | - | KiloByte |
| Synchronous storage | EMS2.BrokerSynchronousStorage | - | KiloByte |
| Async storage | EMS2.BrokerAsyncStorage | - | KiloByte |
| Inbound message size rate | EMS2.BrokerInboundMsgSizeRate | Rate of inbound messages by size | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Outbound message size rate | EMS2.BrokerOutboundMsgSizeRate | Rate of outbound messages by size | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Storage read size rate | EMS2.BrokerStorageReadSizeRate | - | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Storage read count rate | EMS2.BrokerStorageReadCountRate | - | PerSecond |
| Storage write size rate | EMS2.BrokerStorageWriteSizeRate | - | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Storage write count rate | EMS2.BrokerStorageWriteCountRate | - | PerSecond |
| Instance status | EMS2.BrokerNodeStatus | Status of the broker instance | Count |
| Uptime | EMS2.BrokerUptime | How long the broker has been up for | Second |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queue inbound message rate | EMS2.QueueInboundMsgRate | Rate of messages coming in to the queue | PerSecond |
| Queue inbound message size rate | EMS2.QueueInboundMsgSizeRate | Rate of messages coming in to the queue by their size | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Queue outbound message rate | EMS2.QueueOutboundMsgRate | Rate of messages removed from the queue | PerSecond |
| Queue outbound message size rate | EMS2.QueueOutboundMsgSizeRate | Rate of messages removed from the queue by their size | KiloBytePerSecond |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pending messages | EMS2.DurablePendingMessages | Number of messages pending for this durable | Count |
| Pending messages size | EMS2.DurablePendingSize | Total size of the messages pending for this durable | KiloByte |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topic message depth | EMS2.TopicMsgDepth | Number of messages pending in topic | Count |
| Topic message Size | EMS2.TopicMsgSize | Size of the messages pending in topic | KiloByte |
Full version history
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New in this version:
- Added keyword key value pairs to extension
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- Fixed a bug where using the Credential Vault caused the extension to crash
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🚀 Improved in this version:
- Fixed a security concern where the password was printed in clear text in the process list as the password was being passed on as a command line argument. Extension now uses the
-pwdfileoption (read more about it here) with an extension-managed file instead of using the-passwordparameter.
✨ New in this version:
- Added Credential Vault support
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⚠️ NOTICE: This version requires a minimum Dynatrace and EEC version 1.313
🚀 Improved in this version:
- Add error codes (DEC) to error logs
- Update entity screens to account for metric changes
🔨 Modified in this version:
- Change Broker entity instance name pattern to
instance.name
✨ New in this version:
- Add Status returned per endpoint
- Add monitoring of durable subscriptions
- Add new metrics
BrokerMetricsfeature setEMS2.BrokerDurableCountEMS2.BrokerUptime
- Add new feature set
DurableMetricsEMS2.DurablePendingMessagesEMS2.DurablePendingSize
- Add new durable entity type
tibco:durable - Add new relationship making
tibco:durableCHILD_OFtibco:topic
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🚀 Improved in this version:
- More verbose logs on
DEBUGlevel
✨ New in this version:
- Add support for the
dt.security_contextattribute - Add new platform dashboard
- Add platform screens
🐛 Fixed in this version:
- Rate metrics are now always properly captured
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- Added new backwards-compatible configuration for specifying the ports the extension needs to check when these are not found in the process properties automatically reported by the OneAgent.
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- Added new configuration parameters to allow for manual configuration of Tibco instances instead of using auto-discovery. This is useful when the OneAgent is unable to detect the Tibco EMS technology on a Tibco process, or when the process is missing required metadata, like listening port.
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- Fixed a bug where processes without any listening ports would still crash the extension.
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- Add new timeout parameter to configure the timeout when calling the broker on a specific port to check if it's listening or not
- Tibco EMS processes which have no listening port will be skipped
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- Fixed a bug where the extension environment would become corrupted and stop ingesting data, causing gaps of data in Dynatrace
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- Fixed a bug where the extension wouldn't run on older versions of Linux
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Added compatibility with 64-bit installations of Tibco EMS:
- Added a new configuration parameter to choose type of executable (tibemsadmin vs tibemsadmin64). It will default to tibemsadmin if you automatically update your configuration.
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- Fixed a bug where changing the default log folders for the OneAgent would make the extension break.
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- Updated libraries to avoid security risk
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Fix a bug with the libraries included in version 1.0.7 that prevented the extension from running.
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Update libraries
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Added a timeout when checking for listening port of Tibco EMS broker, reducing execution time when multiple open ports are configured/seen on the Tibco EMS process.
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- Fixed a bug where the update from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 wouldn't work.
