Azure DNS Zone

Dynatrace ingests metrics from Azure Metrics API for Azure DNS Zone. 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 1.201+

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 list and select Add service.
Select Save changes.

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

Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > Azure and select the Azure instance.
For Resource monitoring method, select Monitor resources based on tags.
Enter the Key and Value.
Select Save.

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

Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
On the Azure overview page, scroll down and select the desired Azure 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 Dashboards page.
Note: To save a preset dashboard locally, create a new JSON file on your local machine and copy-paste the content of the JSON file from GitHub into the new file.
Once you save a preset dashboard locally, there are two ways to import it.

Import via Dynatrace web UI

Select Dashboards from the navigation menu and choose your dashboard (or create a new one by selecting Create Dashboard).
On your dashboard, select Edit > Settings >Advanced settings > Dashboard JSON.
Copy the whole ID row from the Dashboard JSON file as shown in the image below.
Select Upload to choose and upload the dashboard JSON file that you want to use in your Dynatrace environment.
In the editor of the imported JSON file, paste the ID row right after the opening bracket, on the second row of the Dashboard JSON, as shown below.
Search for the owner parameter and replace the empty value with the email address that is used for your Dynatrace subscription. Or, if the owner parameter is missing, add it as shown below.

    "id": "<your_dashboard_id>",
    "dashboardMetadata": {
        "name": "<your_dashboard_name>",
        "shared": false,
        "owner": "<your_email_address>",
        "sharingDetails": {
            "linkShared": true,
            "published": false

Note: The name you selected for the new dashboard will be overwritten with the name of the preset dashboard. To modify the name, edit the JSON file by replacing the value of the name parameter with your desired dashboard name.
8. Select Save changes.

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

dns-zone

Available metrics

Name	Description	Unit	Recommended
QueryVolume	The volume of DNS queries	Count	✔️
RecordSetCapacityUtilization	The percentage utilization of the maximum limit of record sets for your DNS zone	Percent	✔️
RecordSetCount	The count of DNS record sets within your DNS zone	Count	✔️