Azure SQL Servers

Dynatrace ingests metrics from Azure Metrics API for Azure SQL (SQL Servers, SQL Databases, SQL Elastic Pools). 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

• Environment ActiveGate
• To disable monitoring of built-in services you need Environment ActiveGate version 1.245+ and Dynatrace version 1.247+

Enable monitoring

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

Add the service to monitoring

To view service metrics, the service needs to be monitored in your Dynatrace environment.

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.

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

View service metrics

You can view Azure service metrics in your Dynatrace environment on the Azure subscription page or on your own dashboard.

View metrics on the Azure account page

To access metrics on the Azure account page

1. In the Dynatrace menu, go to Azure.
2. Choose the Azure subscription.
3. Select the service whose metrics you want to check. Metrics for the selected service are visible under the infographic in the service section.

View metrics on a dashboard

You can create your own dashboard for viewing Azure service metrics. For information on how to create dashboards, see Create and edit Dynatrace dashboards.

Example of Azure built-in metrics

Available metrics

Note: This service monitors SQL Servers, SQL Databases (only containing the "user" kind) and SQL Elastic Pools. You can find the already monitored resources on the Azure overview page, in the Databases components section. To monitor resources of the hyperscale/datawarehouse types, check the SQL Database Hyperscale/SQL Data Warehouse and the Azure overview Cloud services section.

SQL Databases

SQL Elastic Pools