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IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana is a plugin provides custom panels for the RMF data source and master dashboard that consists of RMF Charts, RMF Reporting, and RMF Time Series dashboards.

Overview
Grafana is a platform for monitoring and visualizing data. It enables users to create, explore, and share dashboards that are interactive and customizable. The IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin provides effortless analysis and visualization of Resource Measurement Facility for z/OS (RMF for z/OS) Monitor III metrics and reports within the Grafana platform. Thereby, you can monitor and analyze the health and performance of applications.
Release notes
This article covers the new features, system requirements, and known issues of the IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin.
Installing the plugin
You must install the IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin to analyze and visualize RMF Monitor III metrics and reports.
Upgrading the plugin
You must ensure that the IBM RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin is up to date to leverage its enhanced functionalities. You can do so by either installing or upgrading to the latest version of the plugin.
Creating RMF data sources
To access RMF Monitor III metrics in Grafana, you need to connect to the Distributed Data Servers by adding an RMF data source.
RMF master dashboard
IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana is a plugin provides custom panels for the RMF data source and master dashboard that consists of RMF Charts, RMF Reporting, and RMF Time Series dashboards.
Applying visualization to RMF data
By adding panels to dashboards, you can effectively present your RMF data in a visual format. Each panel must require at least one query to display a significant visualization.
IBM RMF query languages
In Grafana, queries are essential for fetching and transforming data from RMF data sources.
RMF Variable Query syntax
Variables are a powerful tool to create more interactive and dynamic dashboards. They offer a way to replace hard-coded values in metric queries and panel titles with placeholders for values.
Alerts
Grafana Alerting feature provides a reliable solution to detect and respond to system issues in real time.
Historical data
In Grafana, you can view historical data using absolute and relative time ranges.
Error types
Whenever you encounter issues while using the IBM RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin, you can view detailed error messages that contain sufficient information to help you identify and troubleshoot the problem.
Troubleshooting issues
This section guides how to analyze and address typical issues that may arise when using the IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin.
Grafana through z/OSMF
When you use IBM® z/OS Management Facility to monitor the performance of the z/OS sysplexes in your environment, you can also access Grafana dashboards from z/OSMF.
PDF Guide
You can find the link to view or download IBM RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin user guide as a PDF file.

RMF master dashboard

IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana is a plugin provides custom panels for the RMF data source and master dashboard that consists of RMF Charts, RMF Reporting, and RMF Time Series dashboards.

Grafana provides a highly flexible and customizable dashboard consisting of one or more rows and panels. You can use various pre-configured panels to construct queries and tailor the visualization to meet your requirements. This enables you to create a personalized dashboard that seamlessly interacts with data from a configured Distributed Data Server (DDS). For more information about creating and managing dashboards, refer to the Grafana documentation.

When you install the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin for the first time, all the dashboards are imported automatically. You can view the dashboards by navigating to Apps > IBM RMF > Dashboards. The following table lists the dashboards available in RMF Charts, RMF Reporting, and RMF Time Series dashboards:

Table 1. RMF master dashboard
RMF Charts Dashboard	RMF Reporting Dashboards				RMF Time Series Dashboards
Common Storage Activity	CACHDET	DSND	PROC	SYSINFO	Common Storage Activity (Timeline)
Coupling Facility Overview	CACHSUM	EADM	PROCU	SYSRG	Coupling Facility Overview (Timeline)
Execution Velocity	CFACT	ENCLAVE	SPACED	SYSSUM	Execution Velocity (Timeline)
General Activity	CFOVER	ENQ	SPACEG	USAGE	General Activity (Timeline)
Overall Image Activity	CFSYS	HSM	STOR	XCFGROUP	Overall Image Activity (Timeline)
Performance Index	CHANNEL	IOQ	STORC	XCFOVW	Performance Index (Timeline)
Response Time	CPC	JES	STORCR	XCFPATH	Response Time
Using & Delays	CRYOVW	LOCKSP	STORF	XCFSYS	Using & Delays (Timeline)
XCF Activity	DELAY	LOCKSU	STORM	ZFSFS	XCF Activity (Timeline)
Common Storage Activity	DEV	OPD	STORR	ZFSKN	Common Storage Activity (Timeline)
	DEVR	PCIE	STORS	ZFSOVW

The dashboard interface offers several customization options for data presentation. The following is the image of the master dashboard from the IBM RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin:

default_dashboard_view

You can click the option when there is a new version of the plugin, and then re-import the dashboard by clicking the icon. Similarly, if any of the dashboards is no longer required, you can click the icon to remove it from the master dashboard.

For more information about available features in the Dashboard and their descriptions, refer to the Grafana documentation.