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

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
On the Azure overview page, select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
Go to Services and select Add service, choose the desired service name from the list, and select Add service.
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

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > Azure and select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
For Resources to be monitored, select Monitor resources selected by tags.
Enter the Key and Value.
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

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
On the Azure overview page, scroll down and select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
Go to Services and select Manage services.
To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
Select Add new metric.
From the menu, select the metric you want.
Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
To configure a metric, select Edit.
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

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Technologies.
Filter by service name and select the relevant custom device group.
Once you select the custom device group, you're on the custom device group overview page.
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.

Available metrics

Name	Description	Dimensions	Unit	Recommended
requests/duration	The time between receiving an HTTP request and finishing sending the response	Request performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Successful request, Cloud role name	MilliSecond	✔️
requests/count	The count of completed HTTP requests	Request performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Successful request, Cloud role name	Count	✔️
requests/failed	The count of failed HTTP requests	Request performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role name	Count	✔️
availabilityResults/availabilityPercentage	The percentage of successfully completed availability tests	Test name, Run location,	Percent	✔️
availabilityResults/count	The count of availability tests	Test name, Run location, Test result	Count
availabilityResults/duration	Availability test duration	Test name, Run location, Test result	MilliSecond
browserTimings/networkDuration	The time between user request and network connection		MilliSecond	✔️
browserTimings/processingDuration	The time between receiving the last byte of a document until the DOM is loaded		MilliSecond	✔️
browserTimings/receiveDuration	The receiving response time		MilliSecond	✔️
browserTimings/sendDuration	The send request time		MilliSecond	✔️
browserTimings/totalDuration	The browser page load time		MilliSecond
dependencies/count	The number of dependency calls	Dependency type, Dependency performance, Successful call, Target of a dependency call, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role name	Count	✔️
dependencies/duration	The dependency duration	Dependency type, Dependency performance, Successful call, Target of a dependency call, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role name	MilliSecond
dependencies/failed	The number of dependency call failures	Dependency type, Dependency performance, Target of a dependency call, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Cloud role name	Count	✔️
pageViews/count	The number of page views	Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role name,	Count	✔️
pageViews/duration	The page view load time	Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role name	MilliSecond
performanceCounters/requestExecutionTime	The HTTP request execution time	Cloud role instance	MilliSecond
performanceCounters/requestsInQueue	The HTTP requests in application queue	Cloud role instance	Count
performanceCounters/requestsPerSecond	The HTTP request rate	Cloud role instance	PerSecond	✔️
performanceCounters/exceptionsPerSecond	The exception rate	Cloud role instance	PerSecond
performanceCounters/processIOBytesPerSecond	The process IO rate	Cloud role instance	BytePerSecond	✔️
performanceCounters/processCpuPercentage	The processor time	Cloud role instance	Percent	✔️
performanceCounters/processorCpuPercentage		Cloud role instance	Percent	✔️
performanceCounters/memoryAvailableBytes	The available memory	Cloud role instance	Byte	✔️
performanceCounters/processPrivateBytes	The process private bytes	Cloud role instance	Byte
requests/rate	The server request rate	Request performance, Result code, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role instance, Successful request, Cloud role name	PerSecond	✔️
exceptions/count	The number of exceptions	Cloud role name, Cloud role instance, Device type	Count
exceptions/browser	The browser exceptions	Cloud role name	Count	✔️
exceptions/server	The server exceptions	Cloud role name, Cloud role instance	Count	✔️
traces/count	The number of traces	Severity level, Is traffic synthetic, Cloud role name, Cloud role instance	Count

Limitations

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