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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
  • Route z/OS traffic to Dynatrace

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

Functionality

Module name

Supported in host-based deployment of ActiveGate

Supported in containerized deployment of ActiveGate

Message RoutingOneAgent routingGAGA
Buffering and compressionOneAgent routingGAGA
AuthenticationOneAgent routingGAGA
Accessing sealed networksOneAgent routingGAGA
Memory dumpsMemory dumpsGA—
AWS monitoringAWSGA—
Cloud Foundry monitoringCloud FoundryGA—
Kubernetes/OpenShift monitoringKubernetesGAGA
Azure monitoringAzureGA—
Monitoring using an ActiveGate extensionExtensions 1.0, Extensions 2.0GA—
Oracle database insightsDatabase insightsGA—
Monitoring virtualized infrastructureVMwareGA—
Dynatrace APIREST APIGA—
Log MonitoringLog MonitoringGA—
Metric ingestionHTTP Metric APIGA—
OpenTelemetry trace ingestionOTLP IngestGA—
Real User MonitoringBeacon forwarderGA—

Functionality available for ActiveGates running synthetic monitors from a private location

Functionality

Module name

Supported in host-based deployment of ActiveGate

Supported in containerized deployment of ActiveGate

Execute private HTTP monitorsSyntheticGA—
Execute private browser monitorsSyntheticGA—

Functionality available for ActiveGates routing z/OS traffic to Dynatrace

Functionality

Module name

Supported in host-based deployment of ActiveGate

Supported in containerized deployment of ActiveGate

Route z/OS traffic to DynatracezRemoteGA—