Topic: Overview

In today's fast-paced digital world, IT teams are under constant pressure to keep their IBM i systems running smoothly and prevent disruptions before they impact business operations. Two concepts- observability and monitoring-are often mentioned together, but they are not the same thing.

iBM i can run for years "without issues"... until one day everything looks like an issue at once. This post explains why threshold-based monitoring often misses the real causes of IBM i incidents - and how a behavioural approach (baseline + context) reduces alert noise and speeds up root-cause diagnosis.