Azure Data Explorer

Dynatrace ingests metrics from Azure Metrics API for Azure Data Explorer. 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 1.195+

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

Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
On the Azure overview page, scroll down and select the desired instance. Select the Edit button.
Scroll down, select Manage services and Add service. Choose the service name from the drop-down and select Add service.
Select Save changes.

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

Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select the desired AWS instance. Select the Edit button.
Scroll down to the Supporting services section and select Manage services.
To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
Select Add metric.
From the menu, select the metric you want.
Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
To configure a metric, select the Edit button associated with it.
Select Apply to save your configuration.

View service metrics

Once you add the service to monitoring, you can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on your dashboard page or on the custom device overview page.

To access the custom device overview page

Go to Technologies on the main menu of your Dynatrace environment.
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.

Example of 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.

Example of custom device overview page

Import preset dashboards

Dynatrace provides preset Azure dashboards that you can import from GitHub to your environment's dashboard page. Once you download a preset dashboard locally, there are two ways to import it.

Import via Dynatrace web UI

On your Dynatrace dashboard page, select Edit and switch to Settings.
Select Advanced settings.
On the Dashboard settings menu, select Dashboard JSON.
Use Upload to choose and upload the dashboard JSON file that you want to import.

Import via Dynatrace API

Create an API token.
When creating the token, enable the Write configuration permission.
To import the dashboard, run the command below, replacing {DYNATRACE_HOST}, {DYNATRACE_TENANT}, {TOKEN}, and {PATH_TO_DASHBOARD} with your own values.

curl --location --request POST 'http://{DYNATRACE_HOST}/e/{DYNATRACE_TENANT}/api/config/v1/dashboards' \
--header 'Authorization: Api-Token {TOKEN}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary '{PATH_TO_DASHBOARD}'

For more information, see Dashboards API - POST a dashboard

data-expl

Available metrics

Name	Description	Unit	Dimensions	Recommended
BatchBlobCount	The number of data sources in an aggregated batch for ingestion	Count	Database	✔️
BatchDuration	The duration of the aggregation phase in the ingestion flow	Second	Database
BatchSize	The uncompressed, expected data size in an aggregated batch for ingestion	Byte	Database	✔️
BatchesProcessed	The number of batches aggregated for ingestion	Count	Database, SealReason
CPU	The CPU utilization level	Percent		✔️
CacheUtilization	The utilization level in the cluster scope	Percent		✔️
ContinuousExportMaxLatenessMinutes	The lateness (in minutes) reported by the continuous export jobs in the cluster	Count		✔️
ContinuousExportNumOfRecordsExported	The number of records exported, fired for every storage artifact written during the export operation	Count		✔️
ContinuousExportPendingCount	The number of pending continuous export jobs ready for execution	Count		✔️
ContinuousExportResult	Indicates whether continuous export succeeded or failed	Count	ContinuousExportName, Result, Database	✔️
EventsProcessedForEventHubs	The number of events processed by the cluster when ingesting from Event/IoT Hub	Count	EventStatus
ExportUtilization	The export utilization	Percent		✔️
IngestionLatencyInSeconds	The ingestion time from the source (for example, if message is in EventHub) to the cluster in seconds	Second		✔️
IngestionResult	The number of ingestion operations	Count	IngestionResultDetails
IngestionUtilization	The ratio of used ingestion slots in the cluster	Percent		✔️
IngestionVolumeInMB	The overall volume of ingested data to the cluster (in MB)	MegaByte		✔️
InstanceCount	The total instance count	Count
KeepAlive	Sanity check, indicating how the cluster responds to queries	Count		✔️
QueryDuration	The queries duration in seconds	MilliSecond	QueryStatus	✔️
SteamingIngestRequestRate	The streaming ingest request rate (requests per second)	Count
StreamingIngestDataRate	The streaming ingest data rate (MB per second)	Count
StreamingIngestDuration	The streaming ingest duration in milliseconds	MilliSecond
StreamingIngestResults	The streaming ingest result	Count	Result
TotalNumberOfConcurrentQueries	The total number of concurrent queries	Count		✔️
TotalNumberOfExtents	The total number of data extents	Count		✔️
TotalNumberOfThrottledCommands	The total number of throttled commands	Count	CommandType
TotalNumberOfThrottledQueries	The total number of throttled queries	Count		✔️