Monitoring IBM MQ® Native HA in Cloud-Native Environments
As enterprises modernize and migrate to containerized platforms, IBM MQ has evolved to support these transformations with solutions like IBM MQ Native HA—a Kubernetes-based, resilient deployment designed for high availability and dynamic scalability. However, Monitoring IBM MQ Native HA introduces new complexities compared to traditional on-prem MQ setups.
In these modern environments, legacy monitoring tools often fall short. Kubernetes introduces abstraction layers, ephemeral workloads, and distributed architectures that demand a different approach to observability. That’s where Infrared360 comes in—offering agentless, purpose-built monitoring for modern IBM MQ infrastructures.
The Challenge: Visibility in Cloud-Native Architectures
Monitoring MQ in cloud-native environments, especially in IBM MQ Native HA deployments, poses unique challenges:
- Containers are short-lived and move across nodes, making host-based monitoring unreliable.
- Failover and scalability events can go unnoticed without intelligent, context-aware monitoring.
- Multiple layers of abstraction in Kubernetes (e.g., pods, services, PVCs) make it difficult to trace message flow or identify bottlenecks.
To effectively manage and optimize performance in Native HA deployments, organizations need modern observability tools tailored for these environments.
How Infrared360 Simplifies Monitoring IBM MQ Native HA
Infrared360 delivers powerful, agentless monitoring designed to handle the complexity of IBM MQ Native HA and other container-based MQ deployments. Here’s how:
Agentless Monitoring Across Pods and Clusters
Infrared360 provides true agentless visibility into your MQ infrastructure—no agents to install, configure, or maintain inside containers. Benefits include:
- Zero-touch deployment and rapid onboarding
- No disruption to your Kubernetes workflows or container images
- Seamless visibility across hybrid or multi-cloud MQ environments
- No time-consuming maintenance on scripts and agents (While precise quantification of time spent on script and agent maintenance varies across organizations, research by Stonebranch shows that IT professionals spend an average of 70% of their time on manual tasks—including managing scripts and maintaining monitoring agents)
Native Support for IBM MQ Native HA
Infrared360 offers built-in awareness of IBM MQ Native HA clusters. It automatically:
- Detects active and standby queue managers and monitors their status
- Watches for failovers across pods and Kubernetes worker nodes
- Tracks persistent volume claims (PVCs) and storage health
- Alerts on degraded states, missing replicas, or failed quorum events
Whether you’re scaling up, restarting pods, or running rolling upgrades, Infrared360 keeps you fully in the loop.
Dynamic Topology Dashboards for Kubernetes
In a world where workloads can shift in seconds, Infrared360 dynamically maps your IBM MQ Native HA environment with:
- Real-time logical topology views of queue managers and connected apps
- Visibility into message flows, queue depths, and error rates
- One-click drill-down into containers, logs, and system health
Plus, Infrared360 offers easy integration with 3rd party graphical analytics solutions like Grafana. No matter how ephemeral your infrastructure becomes, Infrared360 gives you a permanent, accurate picture of what’s happening now.
Secure Access with Trusted Spaces™ RBAC
Modern MQ deployments involve multiple teams: developers, DevOps, middleware admins, and auditors. Infrared360 supports:
- Fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC)
- Partitioned views so teams see only what they need
- Complete User and Activity Audit trails
- Secure auditing without interfering with production systems
It’s built to support collaboration without compromising security or control.
Automation-Ready for DevOps and CI/CD
Infrared360 integrates with your DevOps pipelines using REST APIs that enable:
- Pre-deployment health checks on MQ queues
- Automated response-time monitoring during blue-green deployments
- Post-deployment validation of KPIs and queue activity
If you’re modernizing with IBM MQ Native HA, Infrared360 ensures your observability stack modernizes with you.
Take the Next Step
Whether you’re already running IBM MQ Native HA or planning your migration to Kubernetes, Infrared360 can give you the visibility and control you need to ensure uptime, performance, and efficiency.
Start monitoring IBM MQ Native HA the modern way—agentless, scalable, and built for Kubernetes.
