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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 > Cloud and virtualization > Azure and select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
  2. For Resources to be monitored, select Monitor resources selected by tags.
  3. Enter the Key and Value.
  4. Select Save to save your configuration.

Note: To import the Azure tags automatically into Dynatrace, enable 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.

Note: 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.

Note: 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.