i-Rays
Unlock the Full Potential of Your IBM i with i-Rays. i-Rays revolutionizes IBM i monitoring by introducing the principles of Observability - including behavioral analysis, automated diagnostics, and self-healing capabilities. All to ensure your IBM i remains resilient, responsive, and always on. "Keep you IBM i on!"
IBM i (AS/400) Observability
i-Rays leverages ML/AI and encapsulates over 30 years of deep, hands-on and architectural-level expertise to perform real-time behavioral analysis of IBM i systems. It captures dependencies between transactional workloads and low-level system phenomena, enabling precise detection of deviations from the system’s standard behavior. By understanding these dependencies, i-Rays accurately identifies anomalies at both the system and business related process levels. It provides clear dashboards and intelligent alerting, eliminating false alarms and reducing noise - freeing administrators to focus on what truly matters. Once anomalies are detected and explained, i-Rays generates recommended actions for system healing and performance tuning — all delivered through ready-to-use 5250 commands. i-Rays works as a standalone solution or integrates natively with Dynatrace and other APM platforms via OpenTelemetry.
Key benefits
Proactive management and faster incident response - automated detection, diagnostics, and remediation help reduce MTTD and MTTR, prevent downtime, and ensure business continuity.
Lower operational and technology costs - optimization of licensing, hardware resources, and investment planning enables efficient IT budgeting without compromising performance.
IT team support without resource strain - the tool runs with no performance overhead, assists teams even with limited IBM i expertise, and filters out noise and false alerts so your staff can focus on what really matters.
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
Digital worker
Administrators are often burdened with the task of analyzing system parameters, which limits their ability to focus on other important tasks. This reliance on experienced personnel can also pose a challenge when there is a shortage of skilled staff. i-Rays addresses this issue by automating the analysis and tuning.
OPEX and CAPEX reduction
Continuously generated configuration suggestions result in optimal system tuning to match workload characteristics. This way, we avoid over-scaling hardware and incurring unnecessary costs for system upgrades and maintenance.
System monitoring
Presentation of selected performance metrics - against a set of guidelines and recommendations based on system characteristics (Smart Monitoring module).
System optimisation
Especially if there is no possibility to upgrade the system - because it is already at its maximum available configuration or upgrade is too costly.