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Sebastian Wilk's profile image
Sebastian Wilk posted Wed August 06, 2025 06:00 AM

Hey MQ folks,

we just started playing around with the REST API to allow clients to send and receive messages. After tinkering a bit we have it up and running, however, as of now, I have no idea how to monitor the webserver.

Searching the web and the forums yielded no result, checking the processes I was unable to find anything that gets up and running upon firing up the webserver.

My question is:

How do you people monitor the REST API? Since other than sending messages or dropping a "dspmqweb" to see if the server available I currently have no way of telling wether or not the server is up.

The REST API is hosted on a Windows Server 2022 machine, currently on MQ 9.4.

Kind regards

Sebastian

Francois Brandelik's profile image
Francois Brandelik IBM Champion posted Thu August 07, 2025 08:15 AM

The strmqweb starts a javaw.exe process that you can find in the task manager. Remember to check the command line info for the process in case you are running multiple ones.

However the best way to monitor the REST API would be to excercise it with an "info/display" type of request. If you get the expected return, everything is O.K.

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om prakash IBM Champion posted Thu August 07, 2025 10:22 AM

One option you can use the `api/docs` route to ensure the webserver is available.

https://abc.ibm.com/api/docs -> 200 ensures the webserver is available.

If you want to ensure the webserver is authenticating etc.. add credential to the endpoint - https://abc.ibm.com/ibm/api/explorer/

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