InterSystems IRIS (Remote)
ActiveGate extension that collects metrics and events from the InterSystems IRIS APIs for use in Dynatrace.
- Overview
- Details
- Installation
- Troubleshooting
- Versions
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Gain insights into the performance of your InterSystems IRIS instances. View metrics and events in context with your OneAgent collected data in the Dynatrace UI. Make use of powerful charting and dashboarding features. Allow the Davis® AI causation engine to generate baselines and alert you when anomalies are detected in designated metrics.
use cases
- Monitor health and performance of InterSystems IRIS instances
- Generate alerts when issues are detected
Compatibility information
Connects to and collects data from the InterSystems IRIS REST API.
Details
Metrics and events will be reported to a custom device with the technology 'InterSystems IRIS.'
Metrics
Collected metrics are listed and described in the InterSystems documentation.
Events
The events endpoint is also polled and any new events are reported in Dynatrace.
Licensing Consumption
Extension consumes DDUs at approximately the following rate per endpoint per year:
(83 + 5 * <number_of_web_server_gateway_sockets> + 7 * <number_of_databases) + 2 * <number_of_journals> + 3 * <number_of_purposes> + 3 * <number_of_namespaces> + 6 * <number_of_categories>) * 525.6
Installation
Requirements
- IRIS monitoring APIs reachable
- Environment ActiveGate server - Extract the extension zip file to the plugin_deployment folder of the remote plugin module
- In a default installation this is done with
unzip -o -d /opt/dynatrace/remotepluginmodule/plugin_deployment custom.remote.python.intersystems_iris.zip - Adjust the path if the Activegate was installed somewhere other than
/opt/dynatrace
- In a default installation this is done with
- Browser - Upload the same extension zip file to your tenant
Settings > Monitored technologies > Custom extensions > Upload extension
Configuration
Create an endpoint for each cluster you would like to monitor. This is done in Settings > Monitored technologies > Custom extensions > Netapp Ontap.
The parameters are:
- IRIS Monitor API URL
- e.g.
http://<iris_instance>:80/api/monitor
- e.g.
- Alias for IRIS device
- Optional
- Defaults to hostname from url
- Group for IRIS device
- Optional
- Defaults to 'IRIS Instances'
- Username and password
- Optional
- Log level
- Leave as INFO unless troubleshooting or request support
Troubleshooting
Extension Logs
The logs under %PROGRAMDATA% (windows) or /var/lib (linux) give us more details in case of failures
The full path is /var/lib/dynatrace/remotepluginmodule/log/remoteplugin/custom.remote.python.intersystems_iris/IrisExtension.log
or
C:\ProgramData\dynatrace\remotepluginmodule\log\remoteplugin\custom.remote.python.intersystems_iris/IrisExtension.log
Screenshots
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