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Azure Application Insights monitoring

Dynatrace ingests metrics from Azure Metrics API for Azure Application Insights. You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.

Prerequisites

  • Dynatrace version 1.203+
  • Environment ActiveGate version 1.198+

Enable monitoring

To enable monitoring for this service, you first need to set up integration with Azure Monitor.

Add the service to monitoring

In order to view the service metrics, you must add the service to monitoring in your Dynatrace environment.

To add a service to monitoring
  1. In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
  2. On the Azure overview page, select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
  3. Go to Services and select Add service, choose the desired service name from the list, and select Add service.
  4. Select Save changes to save your configuration.

Monitor resources based on tags

You can choose to monitor resources based on existing Azure tags, as Dynatrace automatically imports them from service instances.
To monitor resources based on tags

  1. In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings and select Cloud and virtualization > Azure.

  2. On the Azure overview page, select the Edit icon for the Azure instance.

  3. Set Resources to be monitored to Monitor resources selected by tags.

  4. Enter key/value pairs to identify resources to exclude from monitoring or include in monitoring. You can enter multiple key/value pairs: each time you enter a pair, another empty row is displayed for you to edit as needed.

  5. Select Save to save your configuration.

    To import the Azure tags automatically into Dynatrace, turn on Capture Azure tags automatically.

Configure service metrics

Once you add a service, Dynatrace starts automatically collecting a suite of metrics for this particular service. These are recommended metrics.

Recommended metrics:

  • Are enabled by default
  • Can't be disabled
  • Can have recommended dimensions (enabled by default, can't be disabled)
  • Can have optional dimensions (disabled by default, can be enabled).

Apart from the recommended metrics, most services have the possibility of enabling optional metrics.

Optional metrics:

  • Can be added and configured manually
To add and configure metrics
  1. In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
  2. On the Azure overview page, scroll down and select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
  3. Go to Services and select Manage services.
  4. To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
  5. Select Add new metric.
  6. From the menu, select the metric you want.
  7. Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
  8. To configure a metric, select Edit.
  9. Select Apply to save your configuration.

View service metrics

You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the custom device overview page or on your Dashboards page.

View metrics on the custom device overview page

To access the custom device overview page

  1. In the Dynatrace menu, go to Technologies.
  2. Filter by service name and select the relevant custom device group.
  3. Once you select the custom device group, you're on the custom device group overview page.
  4. The custom device group overview page lists all instances (custom devices) belonging to the group. Select an instance to view the custom device overview page.

View metrics on your dashboard

Once you add a service to monitoring, a preset dashboard for the respective service containing all recommended metrics is automatically created on your Dashboards page. You can look for specific dashboards by filtering by Preset and then by Name.

For existing monitored services, you might need to resave your credentials for the preset dashboard to appear on the Dashboards page. To resave your credentials, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > Azure, select the desired Azure instance, then select Save.

You can't make changes on a preset dashboard directly, but you can clone and edit it. To clone a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Clone.
To remove a dashboard from the dashboards list, you can hide it. To hide a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Hide.

Hiding a dashboard doesn't affect other users.

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Insights

Available metrics

NameDescriptionDimensionsUnitRecommended
requests/durationThe time between receiving an HTTP request and finishing sending the responseRequest performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Successful request, Cloud role nameMilliSecond
requests/countThe count of completed HTTP requestsRequest performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Successful request, Cloud role nameCount
requests/failedThe count of failed HTTP requestsRequest performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role nameCount
availabilityResults/availabilityPercentageThe percentage of successfully completed availability testsTest name, Run location,Percent
availabilityResults/countThe count of availability testsTest name, Run location, Test resultCount
availabilityResults/durationAvailability test durationTest name, Run location, Test resultMilliSecond
browserTimings/networkDurationThe time between user request and network connectionMilliSecond
browserTimings/processingDurationThe time between receiving the last byte of a document until the DOM is loadedMilliSecond
browserTimings/receiveDurationThe receiving response timeMilliSecond
browserTimings/sendDurationThe send request timeMilliSecond
browserTimings/totalDurationThe browser page load timeMilliSecond
dependencies/countThe number of dependency callsDependency type, Dependency performance, Successful call, Target of a dependency call, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role nameCount
dependencies/durationThe dependency durationDependency type, Dependency performance, Successful call, Target of a dependency call, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role nameMilliSecond
dependencies/failedThe number of dependency call failuresDependency type, Dependency performance, Target of a dependency call, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role nameCount
pageViews/countThe number of page viewsIs traffic synthetic, Cloud role name,Count
pageViews/durationThe page view load timeIs traffic synthetic, Cloud role nameMilliSecond
performanceCounters/requestExecutionTimeThe HTTP request execution timeCloud role instanceMilliSecond
performanceCounters/requestsInQueueThe HTTP requests in application queueCloud role instanceCount
performanceCounters/requestsPerSecondThe HTTP request rateCloud role instancePerSecond
performanceCounters/exceptionsPerSecondThe exception rateCloud role instancePerSecond
performanceCounters/processIOBytesPerSecondThe process IO rateCloud role instanceBytePerSecond
performanceCounters/processCpuPercentageThe processor timeCloud role instancePercent
performanceCounters/processorCpuPercentageCloud role instancePercent
performanceCounters/memoryAvailableBytesThe available memoryCloud role instanceByte
performanceCounters/processPrivateBytesThe process private bytesCloud role instanceByte
requests/rateThe server request rateRequest performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Successful request, Cloud role namePerSecond
exceptions/countThe number of exceptionsCloud role name, Cloud role instance, Device typeCount
exceptions/browserThe browser exceptionsCloud role nameCount
exceptions/serverThe server exceptionsCloud role name, Cloud role instanceCount
traces/countThe number of tracesSeverity level, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role name, Cloud role instanceCount

Limitations

Running the Azure App Service extension at the same time with Azure Application Insights is not supported.