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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

Memory dumps

Memory dumps

AWS monitoring

AWS

Cloud Foundry monitoring

Cloud Foundry

Kubernetes/OpenShift monitoring

Kubernetes

Azure monitoring

Azure

Monitoring using an ActiveGate extension

Extensions 1.0, Extensions 2.0

Oracle database insights

Database insights

Monitoring virtualized infrastructure

VMware

Dynatrace API

REST API

Log Monitoring

Log Monitoring

Metric ingestion

HTTP Metric API

OpenTelemetry metric ingestion

OTLP Ingest

OpenTelemetry trace ingestion

OTLP Ingest

OpenTelemetry log ingestion

Log Monitoring

Real User Monitoring

Beacon forwarder

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

1

Execute private browser monitors

Synthetic

1

1

See Containerized, auto-scalable private Synthetic locations on Kubernetes.

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