Troubleshoot AWS monitoring setup

Read below how you can troubleshoot issues regarding your Dynatrace deployment for AWS monitoring.

The `custom.properties` file on my Environment ActiveGate doesn't have the `[aws_monitoring]` property listed in Help.

Make sure that you have the latest version of Environment ActiveGate. Earlier versions (ActiveGate version 1.159 and earlier) contained a property with a different name. Set that property instead:

ActiveGate versions 1.159 and earlier

[collector]
AWSAgentEnabled = true

I don't know how to connect through proxy.

See Set up proxy authentication for ActiveGate.

I have more than one ActiveGate.

You have two options:

Option 1.
Confirm that all ActiveGates that have AWS monitoring enabled can connect to AWS.
In case of role-based setup: Ensure that all ActiveGates that have AWS monitoring enabled have the ActiveGate role attached.
Option 2.
Choose one ActiveGate you want to monitor your AWS account with. Any ActiveGate type will work as long as it can connect to AWS. On that ActiveGate edit the custom.properties file and set the following property to true:

Versions 1.159 and earlier

[collector]
AWSAgentEnabled = true

ActiveGate version 1.161 or later

[aws_monitoring]
aws_monitoring_enabled = true

On all the other ActiveGates, set the property to false.

My ActiveGate is behind a firewall.

Add *.amazonaws.com to your firewall's list of allowed domains.

I create and attach the role for ActiveGate, but it doesn't assume the monitoring role

An error might occur when attaching a role to an EC2 instance. In such cases, you can use curl to retrieve the instance metadata to verify if the role is listed there. Use the following command:

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/info

If the attached role is still not listed in the instance metadata, it often helps to reattach it.

For more information, see Instance Metadata and User Data.