Hi Steve,
Thanks for the feedback on the WAS metrics app -- we spent a fair bit of time, with an early adopter from the CAB, making sure things would work as expected in z/OS environments.
On the request for native memory stats, are you looking for things equivalent to RSS / VSZ process stats? The challenge for those will be providing them in a consistent way across all of our OS platforms and JVMs, so will take a bit of time to figure out if we can do it.
Seeing Claudia's note in this chain, I wanted to give a quick update. While we haven't addressed every request, we've added the following capabilities to satisfy requests we'd heard during early demos and while working with early adopters. These are in 8.5.5.20 and we expect will be in 9.0.5.9. We hope to address more requests in subsequent releases.
Improve metrics labelling
-Add cell label to metrics
Improve resiliency in cells with very slow servers
-Add timeout for server metrics scraping
Improve observability
-Include server scrape duration metrics in metrics endpoint output
Improve support for Kubernetes deployments
-Provide property to enable/disable cell/node/server labels on WAS Prometheus output
-Publish a Grafana dashboard with filtering options for namespaces / pods / containers
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Don Bourne
WebSphere Observability Architect
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu August 26, 2021 12:40 PM
From: Steve Baker
Subject: WAS metrics – Which enhancements would you like to see most?
Please may I first thank this WAS CAB for providing this metrics application. We have deployed this across all of our mainframe WAS servers and we are thrilled with the level of detail. I understand that what can be collected is determined on what is enabled with regards to PMI. That said we would really like to see the Native Memory used by a server externalized via a PMI metric. Currently we are running a Display PID every so often for our mainframe servers, parse the output and insert into a DB2 table. Not optimal and certainly not visible to Grafana. Thanks Steve Baker, Fidelity Investments
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Steve Baker
Director System Programming
Fidelity Investments
Chapel Hill NC
9194581934
Original Message:
Sent: Fri March 19, 2021 11:01 AM
From: Claudia Beisiegel
Subject: WAS metrics – Which enhancements would you like to see most?
We'd like to hear back from you. If you did not join the WAS CAB session today, you can catch up here.
Which enhancements would you like to see most? What else are we missing?
Improve metrics labelling
-Add cell label to metrics
-Add cluster label to metrics
-Add appname label to EJB metrics
More flexible query options
-Provide ability to omit nodeagent metrics from results
Improve resiliency in cells with very slow servers
-Add timeout for server metrics scraping
-Refresh node/server list asynchronously
Improve support for Kubernetes deployments
-Provide property to enable/disable cell/node/server labels on WAS Prometheus output
-Publish a Grafana dashboard with filtering options for namespaces / pods / containers
Improve observability
-Include server scrape duration metrics in metrics endpoint output
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Claudia Beisiegel
claudiab@us.ibm.com
Join our CAB sessions every Thursday and Friday at 9:15 am EST
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