Get started with Android monitoring

To monitor your Android app with Dynatrace, you first need to create a mobile application in the Dynatrace web UI and then instrument your actual Android app.

Create a mobile application in Dynatrace

Instrument your Android app

Fine-tune the instrumentation

Create a mobile application in Dynatrace

Before instrumenting your actual Android app, create a mobile application in Dynatrace. You will use this application to monitor and analyze your Android app.

To create a mobile application in the Dynatrace web UI

1. In the Dynatrace menu, go to Deploy Dynatrace.
2. Scroll down to the Mobile app monitoring section and select Set up mobile monitoring.
3. Enter a name for your application and select Create mobile app. The application settings page opens.

Instrument your Android app

When you have a mobile application in Dynatrace, instrument your actual Android app with the Dynatrace Android Gradle plugin or OneAgent SDK for Android.

Fine-tune the instrumentation

After you've instrumented your Android app, you might want to configure some additional settings:

• Adjust communication with OneAgent SDK for Android
• Configure the auto-instrumentation process
• Create custom actions, report errors, tag specific users, and more using OneAgent SDK for Android
• Enable and configure Session Replay on crashes
• Configure the data privacy settings
• Learn what data Dynatrace captures for your Android app to complete or update the Data safety form in Google Play Console