Metrics

In Dynatrace, you have various types of metrics at your disposal:

  • Built-in metrics provided by OneAgent. These have the builtin: prefix in the metric key.
  • Extension metrics provided by OneAgent or ActiveGate extensions. These have the ext: prefix in the metric key.
  • Calculated metrics you create. These have the calc: prefix in the metric key.
  • Custom metrics you can feed to Dynatrace via metric ingestion. These don't have any fixed prefix, as the ingestion protocol is completely flexible.

Basics

Built-in metrics
Metrics ingestion
Explorer

API

Metrics API v2
Calculated metrics API

Other metric sources

Prometheus
Dynatrace extensions
Metric events for alerting AWS service metrics
Azure service metrics
Calculated metrics for RUM