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Business-level monitoring

You can configure your message flow to emit event messages that can be used to support transaction monitoring and auditing, and business process monitoring.

Before you start:

To learn about the basic concepts of monitoring, see Monitoring basics.
To decide whether to do transaction monitoring or business monitoring, see Monitoring scenarios.
To decide whether to use monitoring properties or a monitoring profile, see Deciding how to configure monitoring events for message flows.

An event is a message that a message flow publishes when something interesting happens. The message contains information about the source of the event, the time of the event, and the reason for the event. The event can include the message bit stream, and can also include selected elements from the message body. These fields can be used to correlate messages that belong to the same transaction, or to convey business data to a monitoring application.

Note: Monitoring messages are published using the persistent as topic option. By default, the publication resolves to be non persistent, but you can change a publication to be persistent by configuring named topics in WebSphere® MQ. For more information, see the Subscriptions and message persistence topic in the

WebSphere MQ information center.

To receive monitoring events, complete the following steps.

Configure event sources on the flow.
You can configure event sources by using either monitoring properties or a monitoring profile. For instructions, see one of the following topics.
- Configuring monitoring event sources using monitoring properties
- Configuring monitoring event sources using a monitoring profile
Enable event sources.
You can enable event sources by using either the monitoring properties on the node or the -i parameter on the mqsichangeflowmonitoring command. For instructions, see Enabling and disabling event sources
Activate monitoring for the flow.
You can activate monitoring by setting the -c parameter on the mqsichangeflowmonitoring command. For instructions, see Activating monitoring.
Subscribe to the topic for the flow.
The form of the topic name is shown in the following example.
```
$SYS/Broker/brokerName/Monitoring/integrationServerName/flowName
```

You can use WebSphere Business Monitor to monitor your message flows. For more information, see Monitoring flows by using WebSphere Business Monitor.

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Last updated Friday, 21 July 2017