Remote Windows Host Monitoring

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

• All versions of Windows supported by Microsoft
• Successfully tested on older version of Windows and will provide best effort support for older OS's

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

• Disk available
• Disk available %

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