Detect network errors
Some network errors are mitigated and compensated for by network protocols and active networking components, such as network interfaces. Meanwhile, other network errors lead to performance problems that can negatively affect your services.
This topic lists and discusses common network errors, their root causes, and ways of detecting such errors.
Common network errors
Commands to troubleshoot network errors
Use Dynatrace to monitor
When there are several hosts in a network, it's not efficient to ssh
each computer and perform extensive procedures on them. Within complex environments, tool support is required.
As a monitoring tool, Dynatrace monitors all the hosts that are part of your infrastructure and sends notifications when performance anomalies are detected. Dynatrace creates performance baselines for all running services, incoming and outgoing network traffic, average response times to service calls, and the availability of each service from the point of view of the network. When any of these measurements degrade in comparison to the baseline, Dynatrace sends a notification.
You can use Dynatrace to measure and evaluate a number of networking and service-related metrics. Start with the following:
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Network traffic provides a good overview of the overall usage and performance of your service. It's also a good indicator of whether you need to upscale your infrastructure.
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Responsiveness measures the time from the last request packet that the service receives to the first response packet that the service sends. It measures the time a process needs to produce a response to a given request and must be watched in correlation with hardware resources.
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Connectivity shows the percentage of properly established TCP connections compared to TCP connections that were refused or timed out. It shows when services were available to clients and when they were not, over time.
Investigate the issue
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To investigate the issue, go to Problems and select the problem to open the problem overview page.
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In this example, select the impacted process tile.
- The process overview page appears. To learn more about process analysis, see Analyze processes.