An administrator needs Instana to monitor IBM MQ queue managers for queue depth, message throughput, and channel status. The Instana host agent is installed and running on the MQ server. What additional configuration step is required before MQ metrics appear in Instana?

Instana's built-in IBM MQ sensor is activated via the agent's configuration.yaml file. The administrator must add the mqm sensor section specifying the queue manager name, host, port, and server-connection channel details. Additionally, the OS user running the Instana agent must be added to the mqm OS group or granted appropriate IBM MQ object authority so the agent can connect and query queue manager statistics via the MQ API. The correct answer is 'Configure the IBM MQ sensor in the Instana agent's configuration.yaml with the queue manager name, server-connection channel, host, and port, and ensure the agent OS user has MQ object authority'. The incorrect options — 'Install a separate Instana MQ collector microservice appliance on a dedicated monitoring server adjacent to the MQ broker', "Configure IBM MQ to expose metrics via JMX and point the Instana agent's JMX sensor to the MQ broker's JMX port", 'Create a custom Instana agent plugin using the plugin SDK to parse IBM MQ runmqsc command output on a scheduled interval' — are wrong because they do not align with IBM Instana's architecture or recommended practices for this scenario. Understanding this concept is essential for the Domain 4: Integration domain of the IBM Instana Observability certification.