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Status Not under consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 6, 2012

The monitoring events topic is not discrete enough

The monitoring events provide many useful information, but the data amount is very large, which will easily overwhelm the subscribers. We think the topic for monitoring events $SYS/Broker//Monitoring// is not discrete enough. The "monitoring" should be divided among sub-types of events so that the subscriber can receive only certain types of events; and to have more names also provided in topic for possible filtration by name too (like failure terminal), to reduce the amount of data received.

Idea priority High
RFE ID 21150
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM App Connect Enterprise (formerly IBM Integration Bus)
  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
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    Oct 4, 2021

    Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this RFE has been held in Uncommitted Candidate / Future Consideration status. Unfortunately on this occasion we do not intend to take this idea further forward. There are several alternative mechanisms available to meet the use-case presented. Since creation of the suggestion, the subscription topic has been enhanced to incorporate the "applicationName" which helps narrow in to a smaller set of publications:

    topicRoot/integrationNodeName/Monitoring/integrationServerName/applicationName/messageFlowName

    It is also possible to only emit events from a flow when the propagation goes down a particular terminal on a message flow node (eg a catch or a fail terminal would have much lower volume of messages than a standard out terminal for example). You can also apply XPath expressions to cause monitoring events to only be emitted for certain messages going through a particular flow node and not others (ie dependent on some aspect of message payload, choose to emit the event or not). Lastly, it is also possible to use content based filtering of the publications to avoid "data overload" in your subscriber. Given that this RFE has been open since 2012, and with limited supporting votes cast, we suspect the importance of this issue is long since out of date in any case. Idea is closed.

  • Guest
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    Oct 7, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Connectivity and Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

  • Guest
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    Jul 2, 2012

    Thanks for raising this requirement. Event monitoring is an important focus area for us. If you look at every release since the original implementation in V6.1.0.2 you'll see that we've been continually improving the technology, whether it's the transactional behaviour in V7, or the record and replay enhancements in V8. So as the events get used more and more, the requirement you raise is going to be increasingly important. We'll investigate this requirement in a follow-on release.