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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Categories System Admin Config/Security
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 21, 2025

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Adding an automated check for database connectivity via mxintadm similar to API Call /api/members/thisserver

Currently every minute monitoring is being done via API calls to check how all pods are running. Ie if after 5 times (not sure how many times) when no response is received from a pod it will automatically restart the pod.

 Currently they only seem to be checking for rhe application itself, not if they can recover data or connect to the database. It would be a great benefit if it also checked that. It would be even better if after a few times with a wrong response it would automatically restart or delete (after delete openshift will create a new one) the pod.

Now it can happen that if for some reason the database in unavailable and back later, it not picked up again correctly for new connections (there is an incident for that problem, but this is a separate idea as connectivity to the database can be broken in multiple ways).

This would save a big amount of effort in monitoring if for some reason the connectivity with the database is not optimal.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter
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  • Guest
    Oct 10, 2025

    pingdb is an MMI api that the central monitoring agent (the agent that is running not as a side car to the application server).

    Prometheus metrics look like this:

    sh-4.4$ curl -k https://localhost:9444/metrics

    HELP mas_manage_pingdb_totaltime_seconds Total time for the DB Connectivity

    TYPE mas_manage_pingdb_totaltime_seconds gauge

    mas_manage_pingdb_totaltime_seconds{environment="manage.proptest.apps.rabbit-ocp17.cp.fyre.ibm.com",masappid="manage",masworkspaceid="masdev",masinstanceid="proptest",} 0.17

    HELP mas_manage_pingdb_availability Status for the DB2 connectivity

    TYPE mas_manage_pingdb_availability gauge

    mas_manage_pingdb_availability{environment="manage.proptest.apps.rabbit-ocp17.cp.fyre.ibm.com",masappid="manage",masworkspaceid="masdev",masinstanceid="proptest",} 0.0

    HELP mas_manage_pingkafka_totaltime_seconds Total time for the Kafka Connectivity

    TYPE mas_manage_pingkafka_totaltime_seconds gauge

    mas_manage_pingkafka_totaltime_seconds{environment="manage.proptest.apps.rabbit-ocp17.cp.fyre.ibm.com",masappid="manage",masworkspaceid="masdev",masinstanceid="proptest",} 0.0

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