Prometheus Sample Dashboards

The RMF Distributed Data Server exposes Monitor III data to third-party tools using the OpenMetrics exposition format.

Note: OA67701 has to be applied for the feature.
Some examples of the tools are:

The Monitor III data is exposed through the /metrics/m3 endpoint.

The endpoint accepts an optional groups parameter to request specific metric groups:

GET /metrics/m3?groups=<metric-groups>

where <metric-groups> is a comma-separated list of metric groups to be expose retrieved. For more information, see RMF Distributed Data Server documentation.

The Prometheus sample dashboards are included in the plugin. To be able to use them, follow the steps below:
  1. Install and deploy the IBM RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin. For more information, see Installing the RMF for z/OS plugin on Grafana.

  2. Configure Prometheus to scrape the metrics exposed by RMF Distributed Data Server. For more information, see the Prometheus documentation.

    Some of the scrape target definition examples for Prometheus are as follows:

    To scrape all the configured metrics as defined in DDS GPMOMC:

    - job_name: "m3@plex00"
 scrape_interval: 100s # Should be equal to the Monitor III mintime
 scrape_timeout: 50s
 metrics_path: /metrics/m3
 static_configs:
 - targets: [ "ddshostname:8803" ]
    To scrape all the CPC and LPAR related metrics as defined in DDS GPMOMC:
    - job_name: "m3@plex00"
    scrape_interval: 100s  # Should be equal to the Monitor III mintime
    scrape_timeout: 50s
    metrics_path: /metrics/m3
    params:
        groups: cpcs,lpars   
    static_configs:
      - targets: [ "ddshostname:8803" ]
  3. Create a Prometheus data source in Grafana pointing to the Prometheus server. For more information, see the Grafana documentation.