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ActiveGate purposes and functionality

An ActiveGate can be used for three different use cases, which we refer to as purposes:

  • Route OneAgent traffic to Dynatrace, monitor cloud environments, or monitor remote technologies using extensions
  • Run Synthetic monitors from a private location
  • Install the zRemote module for z/OS monitoring

Each purpose comes with a different subset of functional modules. Modules should not be mixed between purposes—such re-configuration is not supported.

Functionality available for the routing-monitoring ActiveGates

FunctionalityModule namex86-64 host-based deployment on Linux and Windowss390 host-based deployment on LinuxContainerized deployment

Message Routing

OneAgent routing

Buffering and compression

OneAgent routing

Authentication

OneAgent routing

Accessing sealed networks

OneAgent routing

OpenTelemetry metric ingestion

OTLP Ingest

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Memory dumps

Memory dumps

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AWS monitoring

AWS

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Cloud Foundry monitoring

Cloud Foundry

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Kubernetes/OpenShift monitoring

Kubernetes

Azure monitoring

Azure

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Monitoring using an ActiveGate extension

Extensions 1.0, Extensions 2.0

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Oracle database insights

Database insights

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Monitoring virtualized infrastructure

VMware

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Dynatrace API

REST API

Log Monitoring

Log Monitoring

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Metric ingestion

HTTP Metric API

OpenTelemetry trace ingestion

OTLP Ingest

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Real User Monitoring

Beacon forwarder

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Functionality available for ActiveGates running synthetic monitors from a private location

FunctionalityModule namex86-64 host-based deployment on Linux and Windowss390 host-based deployment on LinuxContainerized deployment

Execute private HTTP monitors

Synthetic

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Execute private browser monitors

Synthetic

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Functionality available for ActiveGates with the zRemote module

FunctionalityModule namex86-64 host-based deployment on Linux and Windowss390 host-based deployment on LinuxContainerized deployment

zRemote module for z/OS monitoring

zRemote

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