Dynatrace Extensions
Learn how Dynatrace monitors other application software technologies. These technologies are monitored by importing the technology-specific metrics into Davis, the Dynatrace AI causation engine.
Dynatrace extension framework upgrade notice
Starting with Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGate version 1.231, we are upgrading the Extension Framework (also referred to as the plugins framework) from Python 3.6 to Python 3.8.
- Consequences: Some Dynatrace extensions running in your environment may stop working and require redeployment of a new version prepared for Python 3.8.
- Symptoms:
- No data is provided for affected metrics on dashboards, alerts, and custom device pages populated by the affected extension metrics.
- Extension logs display errors. Most often this will manifest itself as Python
ModuleNotFoundErrorin the PluginAgent log. - Sometimes the Python virtual machine crashes.
- Impact: This issue affects only those extensions that use native libraries called from Python code distributed with the extension.
Supported out of the box
Apart from the most common application software technologies, which Dynatrace supports out of the box through OneAgent code modules, Dynatrace also supports numerous other technologies through OneAgent extensions. These technologies can be monitored by Dynatrace out of the box.
- ActiveMQ monitoring
- Cassandra monitoring
- CoreDNS monitoring
- Couchbase monitoring
- CouchDB monitoring
- Elasticsearch monitoring
- Hadoop monitoring
- HAProxy monitoring
- Kafka monitoring
- Memcached monitoring
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Network Time Protocol monitoring
- PHP-FPM monitoring
- PostgreSQL monitoring
- RabbitMQ monitoring
- Redis monitoring
- Spark monitoring
- Varnish Cache monitoring
- WSO2 API Manager monitoring
Dynatrace extension required
The technologies listed below can be monitored by Dynatrace, but they require the installation of monitoring extensions that are available from Dynatrace Hub download page. When monitoring these technologies with Dynatrace, you may incur additional charges for custom metric ingestion and analysis. Please reach out to your Dynatrace sales rep or contact Dynatrace ONE if you're interested in monitoring any of these technologies.
- Apigee Edge monitoring
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
- Citrix NetScaler monitoring
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops monitoring
- IBM DataPower monitoring
- IBM DB2 monitoring
- IBM i monitoring
- IBM MQ monitoring
- Juniper Networks monitoring
- Microsoft SQL Server monitoring
- MySQL monitoring
- SAP ABAP platform monitoring
- SAP HANA database monitoring
- Tibco EMS monitoring
- WMI (Windows Server 2003) monitoring
Monitoring consumption
DDU consumption for built-in extensions
The Dynatrace monitoring extensions listed below initially consume each monitored host's quota of included metrics. Once the included metrics quota is exhausted, DDU consumption begins. The figures in the table below represent the expected consumption per process for each technology type that an extension monitors. The Custom metrics count reflects the default set of metrics that are generated by each extension.
| Technology | Type | Custom metrics |
|---|---|---|
| CoreDNS | OneAgent Extension | |
| Couchbase | OneAgent Extension | 48 |
| CouchDB | OneAgent Extension | 22 |
| Docker technology monitoring | OneAgent Extension | |
| Elasticsearch | OneAgent Extension | 129 |
| Elasticsearch Cloud | ActiveGate Extension | 17 |
| HAProxy | OneAgent Extension | 20 |
| Memcached | OneAgent Extension | 12 |
| MongoDB | OneAgent Extension | 22 |
| MS SQL | OneAgent Extension | 18 |
| MySQL | OneAgent Extension | 31 |
| NTP | OneAgent Extension | 1 |
| PHP-FPM | OneAgent Extension | 6 |
| PostgreSQL | OneAgent Extension | 12 |
| RabbitMQ | OneAgent Extension | 45 |
| Redis | OneAgent Extension | 37 |
| ActiveMQ JMX | JMX Monitoring | 15 |
| Apache Hadoop HDFS | JMX Monitoring | 43 |
| Apache Hadoop YARN | JMX Monitoring | 48 |
| Apache Spark | JMX Monitoring | 17 |
| Cassandra JMX | JMX Monitoring | 28 |
| HornetQ JMX | JMX Monitoring | 5 |
| JBoss Connection Pools | JMX Monitoring | 14 |
| Jetty JMX | JMX Monitoring | 7 |
| Kafka JMX | JMX Monitoring | 42 |
| Solr JMX 1 | JMX Monitoring | 24 |
| Tomcat Connection Pools | JMX Monitoring | |
| WebLogic Connection Pools | JMX Monitoring | 12 |
| WebSphere Liberty Connection Pools | JMX Monitoring | 5 |
| WSO2 API Manager | JMX Monitoring | 27 |
1 For Solr version 7+, each Solr Core will consume additional 24 custom metrics. |
DDU consumption for on-demand extensions
Metrics sent via ActiveGate extensions always consume DDUs. Metrics sent via OneAgent extensions consumes host quota first
| Technology | Type | Monitoring consumption |
|---|---|---|
| Apigee Edge | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| Citrix Netscaler | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops | OneAgent Extension | Host quota first |
| F5 BIG-IP LTM | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| IBM Datapower | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| IBM DB2 | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| IBM i | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| IBM Message Queue | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| Juniper Network | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| Microsoft SQL | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| MySQL | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| SAP ABAP and GUI | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| SAP HANA DB | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |
| Tibco EMS | OneAgent Extension | Host quota first |
| Windows Server 2003 | ActiveGate Extension | DDUs |