Host groups
With many Dynatrace-monitored environments growing larger and more complex all the time, often spanning different data centers and multiple applications, host groups are increasingly important. Host groups enable you to configure hosts per group, roll out OneAgent versions selectively per group, and track service metrics differently depending on the platform they run on.
Dynatrace tells you how the virtual machines in your environment affect the performance of your applications and services. Once you include virtualization in your Dynatrace performance monitoring, you gain insight into your complete infrastructure stack and its behavior.
Within dynamic or large environments, manual host tagging can be impractical. For dynamic deployments that include frequently changing host instances and names (for example, AWS or MS Azure), you can use a dedicated configuration file to programmatically apply tags to your hosts.
Custom host names
Dynatrace generally names the detected hosts in your environment based on their DNS names, exactly as they are detected by Dynatrace OneAgent. To improve readability, you may want to create custom host names to display instead of the detected host names.