KPIs for HCL Workload Automation

Find out the HCL Workload Automation KPIs managed by AIDA.

HCL Workload Automation and HCL Workload Automation for Z expose metrics and KPIs data according to the OpenMetrics standard. Every 4 minutes, AIDA's Exporter component retrieves metrics and KPIs through ad-hoc APIs and stores them into AIDA OpenSearch datababase.

The KPIs and the frequency of data retrieval are defined into a json file present inside HCL Workload Automation and retrieved by AIDA (see below).

For details about HCL Workload Automation exposed metrics, see Exposing metrics to monitor your workload in the HCL Workload Automation User's Guide and Reference.

For details about HCL Workload Automation for Z exposed metrics, see Exposing metrics to monitor your workload in the HCL Workload Automation for Z Managing the Workload.

AIDA also collects a special KPI named job_history, containing the duration for each job that has been defined in HCL Workload Automation with the advanced analytics option enabled and for all its predecessor jobs. Every day, this KPI generates one data point for each job execution (KPI frequency = 86400 seconds) .

Starting from KPIs time series, AIDA uses Machine Learning alghoritms to predict the KPIs trends.

According to the Timerange parameter in the common.env configuration file (or values.yaml file for Kubernetes deployment), KPIs current values are compared with their predicted values. Alerts can be generated, based on alerts definition rules. For details, see Alert Definitions.

HCL Workload Automation KPIs are grouped in the following categories:

Category KPI name Metric name Description Data frequency
Jobs Job history job_history Duration of each job with the advanced analytics option enabled and all its predecessor jobs. 1 data point per each daily job executions (86400 seconds)
Total jobs in plan application_wa_JobsInPlanCount_job_total The total number of jobs in the current plan. 1 data point every 4 minutes (240 seconds)
Jobs in plan by status application_wa_JobsInPlanCount_job Jobs in the current plan with a specific status. The status can be: WAITING, READY, RUNNING, SUCCESSFUL, ERROR, CANCELED, HELD, UNDECIDED, BLOCKED, and SUPPRESS. 1 data point every 4 minutes (240 seconds)
Jobs in plan by workstation grouped by status application_wa_JobsByWorkstation_jobs Jobs in the current plan, with a specific status, running on a specific workstation. 1 data point every 4 minutes (240 seconds)
Jobs in plan by folder grouped by status application_wa_JobsByFolder_jobs Jobs in the current plan, with a specific status, in a specific folder. 1 data point every 4 minutes (240 seconds)
Queue Message files fill percentage application_wa_msgFileFill_percent Internal message queue usage for Appserverbox.msg, Courier.msg, mirrorbox.msg, Mailbox.msg, Monbox.msgn, Moncmd.msg, auditbox.msg, clbox.msg, planbox.msg, Intercom.msg, pobox messages, and server.msg 1 data point every 4 minutes (240 seconds)

HCL Workload Automation KPIs json file

In the KPIs json file inside HCL Workload Automation, each entry defines a KPI. The frequency parameter represents the frequency of the KPI data retrieval, expressed in seconds. This file cannot be modified by users.

[
  {
    "name": "Job history KPI",
    "metric_name": "job_history",
    "frequency": 86400,
    "category": "Jobs",
    "subcategory": "history",
    "labels":[
		"job"
	],
	"keyprop":"attributes",
	"keyPropValues":["duration"],
    "type":"records"
  },
  {
    "name": "Total jobs in plan",
    "metric_name": "application_wa_JobsInPlanCount_job",
    "frequency": 240,
    "category": "Jobs",
    "subcategory": "Trend",
    "type":"total"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jobs in plan by status",
    "metric_name": "application_wa_JobsInPlanCount_job",
    "frequency": 240,
    "category": "Jobs",
    "subcategory": "Trend",
    "keyprop": "jobstatus"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jobs in plan by workstation",
    "metric_name": "application_wa_JobsByWorkstation_jobs",
    "frequency": 240,
    "category": "Jobs",
    "subcategory": "Trend_by_wks",
    "keyprop": "jobstatus",
    "labels": [
      "workstation"
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Jobs in plan by folder",
    "metric_name": "application_wa_JobsByFolder_jobs",
    "frequency": 240,
    "category": "Jobs",
    "subcategory": "Trend_by_folder",
    "keyprop": "jobstatus",
    "labels": [
      "folder"
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "WA Message files fill percentile",
    "metric_name": "application_wa_msgFileFill_percent",
    "frequency": 240,
    "category": "Queue",
    "subcategory": "Msg file fill",
    "keyprop": "msgfile"
  }
]