This extension leverages the WMI protocol to collect data from Windows hosts, without the need for any agent. This enables agent-less, remote monitoring while providing the same transparency and visibility of Windows hosts as otherwise only offered with a OneAgent installation.

This is intended for users, who:

• Want to monitor Microsoft Windows hosts
• Can’t install an agent on the host

This enables you to:

• Remotely monitor windows host
• Collect all relevant data like:
  • CPU and memory utilization
  • I/O operations and disk usage
  • Network interface and traffic statistics
  • Details of processes and network services running

Supported Distributions

• Windows Server 2003+ hosts
• Windows XP hosts

The Remote Windows Host Extension is built on top of the new Extension Framework.

The Extension package contains

• WMI DataSource configuration
• Dashboard template
• Unified Analysis screen template
• Topology definition and entity extraction rules

Further information about the extension can be found in the Dynatrace Product News Blog

• Extend Dynatrace automation and AI capabilities more easily than ever
• Leverage WMI to enable full observability of Windows Hosts and services to monitor health and improve performance.

Collected metrics

CPU

• Used processor time
• Idle processor time
• User processor time

Memory

• Available memory size
• Committed memory size
• Used committed memory
• Non-paged memory size
• Paged memory size
• Page faults/s

Swap

• Allocated swap memory
• Used swap memory
• Swap memory peak

Processes and threads

• Processes
• Threads

Disks

• Disk usage/s
• Disk read bytes/s
• Disk reads/s
• Disk write bytes/s
• Disk writes/s
• Disk transfers/s
• Disk time
• Disk read time
• Disk write time
• Disk idle time
• Disk read bytes
• Disk write bytes
• Disk transfer bytes
• Disk read queue
• Disk write queue

Logical disks

• Free disk memory
• Free disk memory %

Network

• Traffic bytes/s
• Traffic received bytes/s
• Traffic sent bytes/s
• Traffic packets/s
• Traffic packets received/s
• Traffic packets discarded/s
• Traffic packets error/s
• Traffic packets unknown/s
• Traffic packets sent/s
• Active TCP connections
• Established TCP connections
• Failed TCP connections
• Passive TCP connections
• TCP connection resets
• TCP segments/s
• TCP segments received/s
• TCP segments sent/s
• TCP segments transmitted/s
• UDP datagrams/s
• UDP datagrams received/s
• UDP Received invalid datagrams
• UDP datagrams sent/s

Please find detailed steps on how to get started in the Dynatrace Support Center:

• Extensions 2.0 Concepts
• Manage Extensions 2.0 lifecycle
• Create a WMI extension