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This article covers the new features, system requirements, and known issues of the IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin.

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.
Prometheus Sample Dashboards
The RMF Distributed Data Server exposes Monitor III data to third-party tools using the OpenMetrics exposition format.
Creating RMF data sources
To access RMF Monitor III metrics in Grafana, you need to connect to the Distributed Data Server (DDS) by adding an RMF data source.
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.
Integrating DDS Dashboards with OMEGAMON
To enhance visibility and provide deeper insights, the DDS dashboards can be integrated with IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI dashboards.
Importing dashboards
This task describes how to import dashboards and the associated data sources created in RMF Performance Monitoring in the RMF application.
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.

Release notes

This article covers the new features, system requirements, and known issues of the IBM® RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin.

What's new

March 2026 v2.0.0

You can now import RMF Performance Monitoring dashboards and their associated data sources directly into Grafana for visualization. See Importing Dashboards created in RMF Performance Monitoring.
The custom RMF full report panel (ibm-rmf-panel) has been deprecated and removed. Full RMF reports now rely on standard Grafana visualizations.
New query keywords have been introduced to support building complete RMF full reports using standard Grafana table panels. See IBM RMF query languages.
The DDS-based dashboard samples provided with the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin must be re-deployed using the Update/Reset option.
If you have custom DDS-based dashboards that use RMF full reports, you must upgrade them to align with the new approach based on standard Grafana tables.

You can perform these updates manually or through your existing automation scripts, using the latest shipped dashboard samples as reference implementations.

November 2025 v1.1.1

The following plugin names have been changed to meet Grafana naming conventions:
- ibm-rmf to ibm-rmf-app
- ibm-rmf-report to ibm-rmf-panel
The new plugin names must be added to the allow_loading_unsigned_plugins instead of the old ones. The new value is ibm-rmf-app,ibm-rmf-datasource,ibm-rmf-panel.

Requirements

You must have the following software to use the IBM RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin:

Resource Measurement Facility for z/OS 3.1
Distributed Data Server
IBM RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin 1.0.x
Grafana 10.0 or later