Z-Rays is a tool that makes z/OS system performance data accessible, understandable and presentable or exportable. Building on the existing infrastructure for accessing machine data on z/OS systems, the solution collects data from multiple sources, including RMF, SMF, Syslog, security logs and SQL records. It then delivers this data to the best analytics platforms, streaming it almost in real time.
Learn moreObserverability of IBM Mainframe infrastructure
With Z-Rays, you can stream data in near real-time, sending it to multiple destinations in different formats for different consumers, allowing IT departments to analyse and manage operating systems, databases and other mainframe environments.
Key benefits
Reduce manual work - Z-Rays significantly automates monitoring, eliminating much of the manual work, reducing the time to identify the cause of incidents. Provides alerts with exceptions and anomalies or predictions of resource depletion.
Automated, intelligent monitoring - The AI engine detects problems at an early stage, predicts anomalies or resource depletion and provides alerts - much more than the typical ordinary messages. With intelligent rules, alerts, indicators and our overall expertise, our daily professionalism has been automated and made more valuable. Real-time machine downloads and online observability replace static post information.
Information exploration and monitoring efficiency - Z-Rays offers a modern graphical user interface based on Kibana/Elasticsearch or Dynatrace, which makes a significant difference compared to the 3270 standard or Windows style.
Main features
Integration with analytical platforms
At its core, Z-Rays works with Elastic Stack, Dynatrace and other leading monitoring tools. In this way, Z-Rays amplifies the capabilities of the best analytical tools.
Ease of use
Z-Rays is an off-the-shelf, user-friendly solution, and with its well-chosen metrics, predefined dashboards and intuitive interface, there is no need to invest additional time and money in learning for the operations team. What's more, implementation takes between two and four hours.
Integration with Versio.io
Resource management tool for Mainframe - access Mainframe configuration information without direct access to the mainframe.
Main Use cases
Dostrajanie wydajności, zapobieganie awariom i naruszeniom
Prevent failures and monitor performance with near real-time data, comprehensive AI support and powerful alerting.
Capacity and cost-effectiveness planning
Thanks to a predefined set of dashboards prepared on the basis of many years of expertise, the tool allows for effective Capacity Planning.
Modernising mainframe management
Z-Rays provides a modern, graphical interface tailored to the needs of administrators.