Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) (built-in)

Dynatrace ingests metrics for multiple preselected namespaces, including Amazon Elastic Load Balancer. 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

To enable monitoring for this service, you need:

Any version of ActiveGate in both Dynatrace SaaS and Managed deployments.

For role-based access (whether in a SaaS or Managed deployment), you need an ActiveGate installed on an Amazon EC2 host.
An updated AWS monitoring policy to include the additional AWS services.
To update the AWS IAM policy, use the JSON below, containing the monitoring policy (permissions) for all cloud services.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities",
        "apigateway:GET",
        "apprunner:ListServices",
        "appstream:DescribeFleets",
        "appsync:ListGraphqlApis",
        "athena:ListWorkGroups",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
        "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
        "cloudhsm:DescribeClusters",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeDomains",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "codebuild:ListProjects",
        "datasync:ListTasks",
        "dax:DescribeClusters",
        "directconnect:DescribeConnections",
        "dms:DescribeReplicationInstances",
        "dynamodb:ListTables",
        "dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotFleetRequests",
        "ec2:DescribeTransitGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeVpnConnections",
        "ecs:ListClusters",
        "eks:ListClusters",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentResources",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
        "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticmapreduce:ListClusters",
        "elastictranscoder:ListPipelines",
        "es:ListDomainNames",
        "events:ListEventBuses",
        "firehose:ListDeliveryStreams",
        "fsx:DescribeFileSystems",
        "gamelift:ListFleets",
        "glue:GetJobs",
        "inspector:ListAssessmentTemplates",
        "kafka:ListClusters",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "kinesisanalytics:ListApplications",
        "kinesisvideo:ListStreams",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "lambda:ListTags",
        "lex:GetBots",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "mediaconnect:ListFlows",
        "mediaconvert:DescribeEndpoints",
        "mediapackage-vod:ListPackagingConfigurations",
        "mediapackage:ListChannels",
        "mediatailor:ListPlaybackConfigurations",
        "opsworks:DescribeStacks",
        "qldb:ListLedgers",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeEvents",
        "rds:ListTagsForResource",
        "redshift:DescribeClusters",
        "robomaker:ListSimulationJobs",
        "route53:ListHostedZones",
        "route53resolver:ListResolverEndpoints",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "sagemaker:ListEndpoints",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "sqs:ListQueues",
        "storagegateway:ListGateways",
        "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
        "swf:ListDomains",
        "tag:GetResources",
        "tag:GetTagKeys",
        "transfer:ListServers",
        "workmail:ListOrganizations",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

If you don't want to add permissions to all services, and just select permissions for certain services, consult the table below. The table contains a set of permissions that are required for All AWS cloud services and, for each cloud service, a list of optional permissions specific to that service.

Permissions required for AWS monitoring integration:

"cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
"cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics"
"cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
"sts:GetCallerIdentity"
"tag:GetResources"
"tag:GetTagKeys"
"ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones"

Name

Permissions

All monitored Amazon services required

cloudwatch:GetMetricData,
cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics,
cloudwatch:ListMetrics,
sts:GetCallerIdentity,
tag:GetResources,
tag:GetTagKeys,
ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority

acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities

Amazon MQ

Amazon API Gateway

apigateway:GET

AWS App Runner

apprunner:ListServices

Amazon AppStream

appstream:DescribeFleets

Example of JSON policy for one single service.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
          {
                  "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
                  "Effect": "Allow",
                  "Action": [
                          "apigateway:GET",
                          "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
                          "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                          "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
                          "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
                          "tag:GetResources",
                          "tag:GetTagKeys",
                          "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones"
                  ],
                  "Resource": "*"
          }
      ]
}

In this example, from the complete list of permissions you need to select

"apigateway:GET" for Amazon API Gateway
"cloudwatch:GetMetricData", "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics", "cloudwatch:ListMetrics", "sts:GetCallerIdentity", "tag:GetResources", "tag:GetTagKeys", and "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones" for All AWS cloud services.
To disable monitoring of built-in services, you need Environment ActiveGate version 1.245+ and Dynatrace version 1.247+.

Endpoint

Service

autoscaling.<REGION>.amazonaws.com

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in), Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

lambda.<REGION>.amazonaws.com

AWS Lambda (built-in), AWS Lambda

elasticloadbalancing.<REGION>.amazonaws.com

Amazon Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) (built-in)

dynamodb.<REGION>.amazonaws.com

Amazon DynamoDB (built-in), Amazon DynamoDB

ec2.<REGION>.amazonaws.com

Amazon EBS (built-in), Amazon EC2 (built-in), Amazon EBS, Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet, Amazon VPC NAT Gateways, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-to-Site VPN

rds.<REGION>.amazonaws.com

Amazon RDS (built-in), Amazon Aurora, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon RDS

Enable monitoring

To learn how to enable service monitoring, see Enable service monitoring.

View service metrics

You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the AWS account page or on your Dashboards page.

View metrics on the AWS account page

To view metrics on the AWS account page

Go to AWS or AWS Classic (latest Dynatrace).
Choose AWS account you want to check metrics for.
Select Service box. Metrics for the selected service are visible under the infographic in the service section.

View metrics on the Dashboard

You can also create your own dashboard. For more information on how to create dashboards, go to Create and edit Dynatrace dashboards

Example of AWS built-in monitoring service

example of AWS builtin monitoring service

Available metrics

LoadBalancerName is the main dimension.

Metric key	Name	Unit	Aggregations	Monitoring consumption
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.backend.connection	CLB backend connection errors	Count	autovalue	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.backend.http2xx	CLB number of backend 2XX errors	Count	autovalue	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.backend.http3xx	CLB number of backend 3XX errors	Count	autovalue	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.backend.http4xx	CLB number of backend 4XX errors	Count	autovalue	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.backend.http5xx	CLB number of backend 5XX errors	Count	autovalue	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.elb.http4xx	CLB number of 4XX errors	Count	autovalue	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.elb.http5xx	CLB number of 5XX errors	Count	autovalue	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.errors.frontend	CLB frontend errors percentage	Percent (%)	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.hosts.healthy	CLB number of healthy hosts	Count	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.hosts.unhealthy	CLB number of unhealthy hosts	Count	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.latency	CLB latency	Second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.elb.reqCompl	CLB number of completed requests	Count	autovalue	DDUs