i-Rays: THE Observability Tool for IBM i
In any industry, knowing exactly what is going on in your IBM i environment is critical to your organization’s success. i-Rays assures peace of mind for business leaders with every transaction because its context-aware AI uncovers possible issues without plaguing them with annoying alerts, and operations teams can get out of reactive mode thanks to early warnings, precise diagnostics, and proactive recommendations that maximize efficiency.
IBM i (AS/400) Observability
Organizations that rely on IBM i demand reliable and predictable systems that reduce risks to revenue, customer trust, and brand reputation. Administrators and IT operations teams need full observability so they can identify the precise cause of problems and find fixes quickly, but finding experts with the right skill set is becoming more difficult every year as midrange specialists become scarcer. i-Rays, the first and only observability solution purpose-built for IBM i, solves this problem by using AI to allow users to predict and prevent issues before they lead to outages or degraded functionality. i-Rays is an essential tool that enables business leaders to extend the value and utility of their IBM i investments. [detect, understand. prevent.]
The Observability Advantage
Observability is crucial because it enables IT teams to detect, understand, and prevent issues before they impact business operations.
Without observability, decisions are based on incomplete data, increasing the risk of misalignment between IT and business goals.
Observability shifts organizations from reactive firefighting to proactive system management.
Key System Functions
Smart Metrics – observe with clarity
Real-time views, process mapping, and key metrics to spot performance sweet spots.
Anomaly Detection – understand with context
Automatic detection of deviations with correlated metrics and traceable history.
Advanced Advisor – act with precision
Ready-to-use commands to optimize jobs, memory, journaling, DB2, and more.
Main use cases
Proactive, AI-driven insights
i-Rays autonomously learns a system’s unique performance baseline and adapts to changes. It uses AI to detect subtle anomalies in timing patterns and atomic transaction signatures, helping prevent system slowdowns and transaction congestion before they escalate into operational risks that could affect business continuity
Precise, actionable diagnostics
By analyzing dependencies between low-level events, the solution moves beyond isolated metrics to identify hidden risks and minimize false alerts. It also recommends specific optimizations and can even execute them automatically to keep the system running at peak efficiency.
Empowers all users, not just experts
More than a monitoring tool, i-Rays democratizes platform knowledge. Intuitive automation and actionable insights enable non-specialists to resolve issues independently all while reducing reliance on scarce IBM i specialists.
Zero Footprint
i-Rays introduces no additional load on the monitored IBM i system because it operates with a practically zero-footprint architecture.
Integration
i-Rays can operate as a standalone solution, but it also integrates seamlessly with any monitoring/observability environment, giving greater insight into IBM i systems natively or through the Open Telemetry standard.