About Metrics

This section contains an exhaustive list of all metrics collected by the monitoring agent for all services.

Your monitoring solution or the tool (e.g., IBM Tivoli Server or Nagios) used to collect monitoring information on the operating system, application server, database needs to be configured to collect these metrics. The tables described in the rest of the Metrics section describe the different metrics for each service and the alert criteria you should use to configure your monitoring solution.

Syntax

Each service (and service category) generates metrics including the following fields: <event_name>.<metric_suffix> where:

  • <event_name> is the common prefix
  • <metric_suffix> is specific to the metric.

After the monitoring agent has collected monitoring information, it maps it to a standard monitoring log format. The standard format is a CBE log file formatted as XML content and compliant with the CBE XML schema specification. The log file can be opened using Log and Trace Analyzer for Java Desktop, IBM Tivoli, Eclipse TPTP, or any text editor. It is important to note that CBE files are not valid XML documents, they are XML fragments.

The monitoring agent monitors itself by sending the following metric at each time interval (5 minutes).