[Info] WebSphere Variables about grafana-ibm-apm

[rafal-szypulka]

I am not aware of any public documentation for this topic. You can collect this information directly from the ITM API, but it's not documented and quite difficult to explain here.
The easiest way I know to collect this information is to use my other tool https://github.com/rafal-szypulka/itm_exporter/releases.

1. Prepare config.yaml as explained in https://github.com/rafal-szypulka/itm_exporter
   These 5 lines should be sufficient:

itm_server_url: "http://localhost:15200"
itm_server_user: "sysadmin"
itm_server_password: "pass"
connection_timeout: 8
collection_timeout: 40

then

itm_exporter listAgentTypes --temsName=<TEMS label ex. TEMS>

then

itm_exporter listAttributeGroups --dataset=<dataset URI for WAS agent>

then

itm_exporter listAttributes --attributeGroup=<attribute group id> --dataset=<dataset URI for WAS agent>

The output should be similar to (example for Linux OS Agent, KLZCPU group):

+------------------------------+------------+-------------+
|         DESCRIPTION          | ATTRIBUTES | PRIMARY KEY |
+------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| System Name                  | ORIGINNODE | false       |
| Time Stamp                   | TIMESTAMP  | false       |
| CPU ID                       | CPUID      | true        |
| User CPU (Percent)           | USRCPU     | false       |
| User Nice CPU (Percent)      | USRNCPU    | false       |
| System CPU (Percent)         | SYSCPU     | false       |
| Idle CPU (Percent)           | IDLECPU    | false       |
| Busy CPU (Percent)           | BUSYCPU    | false       |
| I/O Wait (Percent)           | WAITCPU    | false       |
| User to System CPU (Percent) | USRSYSCPU  | false       |
| Steal CPU (Percent)          | STEALCPU   | false       |
| Recording Time               | WRITETIME  | false       |
+------------------------------+------------+-------------+

[himuura]

This is a tremendous help mate!! Thank you! Spoke to an IBM representative in my company, and these metrics were indeed available in the CAPM / APM WIM documentation. The documents are named: APM WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent Reference and APM WebSphere Applications agent Reference (if anyone is interested). You approach is indeed more pragmatic, will definetely use it! Again, thank you for all your help!