Native HA CRR metrics & mqperfck

There will, no doubt, be full discussions elsewhere of the new MQ Native HA Cross-region Replication feature. But one aspect of it seemed particularly relevant to other articles on this site: monitoring the CRR metrics.

The MQ 9.4.2 release also includes another tool, mqperfck, that introduces some additional metrics. And I’ll talk about how that potentially affects other monitoring tools.

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This post was last updated on March 1st, 2025 at 09:55 am

Monitoring MQ availability

One of the focus areas for new development in MQ in recent years has been in the area of High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Technologies such as RDQM and Native HA, and automatically managed logfiles, give a range of possibilities for ensuring your messaging systems continue reliably. Alongside the core function, there are also metrics and status information to show more about what is going on. And so the latest updates to the open source monitor programs add collection of some of these recently-added values. This should simplify monitoring MQ availability.

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This post was last updated on February 22nd, 2023 at 10:30 am