Monitoring MQGET

Question

Is there any open-source tool or plugin to monitor MQGET calls?

More specifically we need to monitor Total MQGET operations on MQ Manager for some specific queues.

Checked the link provided with How to monitoring MQPUT and MQGET? but dint find any.

Answer 1

There are two options that immediately come to mind for monitoring the total number of MQGET operations on a queue.

1. RESET QSTATS
2. Queue Statistics

A comparison between these two methods is discussed here . I won't repeat the whole post, but the pertinent comparison is thus.

Reset QStats	Queue Statistics
Polls the Command Server. Care should be taken if you are monitoring large numbers of queues at high frequencies using this method because of the incurred load on the queue manager. However, for single queue high frequency graphs, this may be more suitable as you would you not likely want to set Accounting and Statistics intervals to really short timeframes, such as a minute or less.	Information is pushed by the Queue Manager as Accounting and Statistics messages, at configured intervals, and it therefore incurs less load on the queue manager.
Can only be consumed by one user as RESET QSTATS is destructive	Can be consumed by any number of users
Using RESET QSTATS will interfere with the collection of Performance Events	Using Queue Statistics does not interfere with any other data collection
Available on z/OS (turn on performance events to use it) and Distributed platforms	Only available on Distributed platforms, not on z/OS
Configuration is very simple to monitor a small number of queues, but becomes unwieldly to monitor many/all queues	Configuration requires a small amount of initial set up, but once set up, monitoring the entire queue manager is no more effort than monitoring a single queue

Simple MQ Administrative tools usually have RESET QSTATS. You need something to process Accounting and Statistics messages if you want to use Queue Statistics.

Answer 2

To monitor the total MQGET/MQPUT operations on MQ QMGR for specific queues, we can use amqsrua command by specifying the queue name.

**The usage of the command is as below:**

amqsrua [-m QMGR-NAME] [-c CLASS-NAME]
     [-o object name] [-t TYPE-NAME]
     [-p metadata prefix]
     [-n publication count]
     
Example: 

* To get MQGET Counts:
  amqsrua -m <QMGR Name> -c STATQ -t GET -o <Queue Name> -n1 

* To get MQPUT Counts:
  amqsrua -m <QMGR Name> -c STATQ -t PUT -o <Queue Name> -n1