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Application Security metrics

The following metrics for Application Security are available.

Metrics related to security problems and attacks

NameDescriptionDimensions
Open security problems (global)
Dynatrace version 1.225+		Number of currently open security problems seen within the last minute. The metric value is independent of any configured management zone (and thus global).Risk level (Critical, High, Medium, Low, None); Type (Third-party vulnerability, Code-level vulnerability)
Open security problems (split by management zone)
Dynatrace version 1.231+		Number of currently open security problems seen within the last minute. The metric value is split by management zone.Risk Level (Critical, High, Medium, Low, None); Type (Third-party vulnerability, Code-level vulnerability); management zone name
New open security problems (global)
Dynatrace version 1.222+		Number of security problems that were recently created. The metric value is independent of any configured management zone (and thus global).Risk level (Critical, High, Medium, Low, None); Type (Third-party vulnerability, Code-level vulnerability)
New open security problems (split by management zone)
Dynatrace version 1.231+		Number of security problems that were recently created. The metric value is split by management zone.Risk Level (Critical, High, Medium, Low, None); Type (Third-party vulnerability, Code-level vulnerability); management zone name
New muted security problems (global)
Dynatrace version 1.222+		Number of security problems that were recently muted. The metric value is independent of any configured management zone (and thus global).Risk level (Critical, High, Medium, Low, None); Type (Third-party vulnerability, Code-level vulnerability)
New resolved security problems (global)
Dynatrace version 1.222+		Number of security problems that were recently resolved. The metric value is independent of any configured management zone (and thus global).Risk level (Critical, High, Medium, Low, None); Type (Third-party vulnerability, Code-level vulnerability)

Metrics related to process groups

NameDescriptionDimensions
Vulnerabilities - affected process groups count (global)
Dynatrace version 1.227+		Total number of unique affected process groups across all open security problems per technology. The metric value is independent of any configured management zone (and thus global).Technology (Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP)
Vulnerabilities - affected not-muted process groups count (global)
Dynatrace version 1.227+		Total number of unique affected process groups across all open, unmuted security problems per technology. The metric value is independent of any configured management zone (and thus global).Technology (Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP)

View metrics

To view Application Security metrics

  1. In the Dynatrace menu, go to Metrics.

  2. Filter by Text: security problems or Text: process groups.

    • If you don't see results, turn off Only show metrics reported after the start of the selected timeframe.
    • You can add more filters (Tag, Unit, Favorites). See Filter and sort the table for details.

  3. Expand Details for any metric to see metric details and a chart of the metric over the selected timeframe.

    Example metric details:

    Metric example appsec

    Example chart:

    Chart appsec metrics

    To learn more about charting metrics and how to pin them to your dashboards, see Data explorer.