Tibco EMS monitoring

Learn how to use Dynatrace to trace Tibco EMS messages and monitor Tibco EMS.

  • The Tibco EMS extension isn't required for tracing Tibco EMS messages. Dynatrace provides out-of-the-box automatic detection and monitoring of messages as described in the Tibco EMS message tracing section below.
  • The Tibco EMS extension is required for monitoring Tibco EMS. See the Tibco EMS monitoring section for details.

Tibco EMS message tracing

Out of the box, Dynatrace automatically detects and monitors Tibco EMS queues and messages in your applications.

  • Dynatrace OneAgent displays Tibco EMS in the smartscape topology view.

  • All services that use Tibco EMS are listed in the Sends to queue and Receives from queue sections of the related service overview page.

  • As long as each message is sent and received within the same queue, you get an end-to-end view of each message trace.

  • Service-level backtraces can follow messages backward to their origins.

  • When you look at a single PurePath, you can understand the end-to-end flow of the message.

Tibco EMS monitoring

You need the Tibco EMS extension to monitor Tibco EMS from a broker level.

Get started

To get started, just select the chat button in the upper-right corner of the Dynatrace menu bar to contact a Dynatrace ONE Product Specialist. Dynatrace ONE will make sure you have what you need to monitor Tibco EMS.

Prerequisites

The Tibco EMS extension has the following requirements:

  • Tibco EMS 8.0+ for Windows/Linux.
  • OneAgent version 1.171+
  • The dtuser account must be able to execute tibemsadmin, usually installed under TIBCO_HOME/bin
  • A monitoring account must be created with sufficient privileges to run show commands under tibemsadmin
  • Statistics must be enabled inside EMS.

Limitations

  • The extension can only monitor up to 100 queues and 100 topics per instance per host.
  • Please note that with OneAgent versions 1.189 and earlier, multiple EMS instances weren't detected as separate processes. The 100 limit was shared across all instances running on the same host.
  • If your EMS instance has more than 100 queues or topics use the filter options on the configuration page to limit the list to essential items.

Extension installation

  1. Get the install file (custom.python.tibcoems.zip) from your Dynatrace ONE Product Specialist via live chat. Don't rename the file.

  2. Unzip custom.python.tibcoems.zip to the plugin_deployment directory of your tibco hosts.

  3. If the resulting directory structure isn't

    .\plugin_deployment\custom.python.TibcoEMS\

    make the necessary changes.

  4. In Dynatrace, select Settings > Monitoring > Monitored technologies.

  5. Select Custom extensions and then Upload Extension.

  6. Upload custom.python.TibcoEMS.zip.

  7. A new entry should appear called TibcoEMS. Select the link to configure.

  8. Enter the following information to connect to your Tibco EMS.

    Setting Details

    User

    Tibco account with sufficient privileges to run tibemsadmin commands such as show server

    Password

    The user password

    Secure connection

    Select no for TCP or yes for SSL. Ensure the correct listener is enabled

    Queue patterns to ignore (comma separated)

    Enter a comma-separated list of queue names to ignore. Substrings are valid but do not use "*". To exclude queues such as prod-myqueue, prod-myqueue2 use prod-myqueue

    Topic patterns to ignore (comma-separated)

    Enter a comma-separated list of topics names to ignore. Substrings are valid but do not use "*". To exclude topics such as prod-mytopic1, prod-mytopic2 use prod-myqtopic

Output

  • To view the data, navigate to the monitored host and select the Tibco EMS process.

  • Wait at least 2-3 minutes after deploying the extension for the first time.

  • The broker level information is displayed under the Tibco EMS tab.

  • The queues and topics are under Further details.

  • Filters can be applied to only show specific items.

  • The extension captures the version and if statistics are enabled. Visible under process properties.

Metrics

Queues

  • Queue Depth
  • Queue pending message size
  • Queue receiver count
  • Queue inbound message rate
  • Queue inbound message size rate
  • Queue outbound message rate
  • Queue outbound message size rate

Topics

  • Topic message depth
  • Topic message Size
  • Topic inbound message rate
  • Topic inbound message size rate
  • Topic outbound message rate,
  • Topic outbound message size rate

High-level information

  • Topics count

  • Queues count

  • Clients count

  • Sessions count

  • Producers count

  • Consumers count

  • Pending messages count

  • Pending messages size

  • Memory usage

  • Memory pooled

  • Synchronous storage size

  • Async storage size

  • Inbound message size rate

  • Inbound message count rate

  • Outbound message size rate

  • Outbound message count rate

  • Storage read size rate

  • Storage read count rate

  • Storage write size rate

  • Storage write count rate

  • Instance status

Troubleshooting