What is Swift AMH Cluster?

Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) is one of the key messaging solutions in the SWIFT product portfolio. AMH is customizable and meets the messaging needs of financial institutions. AMH can help financial institutions introduce new services and products to the market quickly and efficiently.

AMH is a software that is used to process swift messages runs on JBoss EAP server in a clustered environment and one single Jboss EAP server running AMH software is called a node in that cluster. AMH node runs a user interface, a database, and a messaging system. The AMH node provides the web front end that runs the user interface and Signal Transfer Point (STP) message.

Fully integrated into Swift’s product portfolio, AMH meets the needs of a wide range of financial institutions, from those with more traditional operations to those with very specific messaging requirements.

Why Monitor Swift AMH Cluster?

Swift AMH operates in a clustered environment for high performance and reliability given the critical nature of workload being carried by the platform. Being in a cluster requires very precise orchestration between the nodes, which should be monitored for not just performance but for health as well. Each node in the cluster is the building block of the entire system, and even if a few nodes are not working the system can continue operating. The system performance starts degrading only when a large number of nodes fail. That's the reason it is very important to keep monitoring the cluster to identify the issues and/or degraded nodes so that any problem can be fixed in the timely manner before it starts affecting the performance of entire system.