Enable service monitoring

  • How-to guide
  • 2-min read
  • Published Nov 09, 2023

To enable monitoring for this service, you first need to integrate Dynatrace with Amazon Web Services:

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

  1. Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS.
  2. On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select the desired AWS instance. Select the Edit button.
  3. Scroll down and select Add service. Choose the service name from the dropdown list and select Add service.
  4. Select Save changes.
Cloud-service monitoring consumption

All cloud services consume Davis data units (DDUs). The amount of DDU consumption per service instance depends on the number of monitored metrics and their dimensions (each metric dimension results in the ingestion of 1 data point; 1 data point consumes 0.001 DDUs).

Once AWS cloud services are added to monitoring, you might have to wait 15-20 minutes before the metric values are displayed.

Monitor resources based on tags

You can choose to monitor resources based on existing AWS tags, as Dynatrace automatically imports them from service instances. Nevertheless, the transition from AWS to Dynatrace tagging isn't supported for all AWS services. Expand the table below to see which cloud services are filtered by tagging.

NameTags monitoring & filtering
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in)yes
AWS Lambda (built-in)yes
Amazon Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in)yes
Amazon DynamoDB (built-in)yes
Amazon EBS (built-in)yes
Amazon EC2 (built-in)yes
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) (built-in)yes
Amazon RDS (built-in)yes
Amazon S3 (built-in)yes
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authorityyes
Amazon API Gatewayyes
AWS App Runneryes
Amazon AppStreamyes
AWS AppSyncyes
Amazon Athenayes
Amazon Aurorayes
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling-
AWS Billing-
Amazon Keyspacesyes
AWS Chatbot-
Amazon CloudFrontyes
AWS CloudHSMyes
Amazon CloudSearch-
AWS CodeBuildyes
Amazon Cognito-
Amazon Connect-
AWS DataSyncyes
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)yes
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)yes
Amazon DocumentDByes
AWS Direct Connectyes
Amazon DynamoDByes
Amazon EBSyes
Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet-
Amazon EC2 API-
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)yes
Amazon ECS Container Insightsyes
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)yes
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)yes
Amazon ElastiCache (EC)yes
AWS Elastic Beanstalkyes
Amazon Elastic Inferenceyes
Amazon Elastic Transcoder-
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)yes
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES)yes
Amazon EventBridgeyes
Amazon FSxyes
Amazon GameLift-
AWS Glueyes
Amazon Inspectoryes
AWS Internet of Things (IoT)-
AWS IoT Things Graph-
AWS IoT Analytics-
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafkayes
Amazon Kinesis Data Analyticsyes
Amazon Data Firehoseyes
Amazon Kinesis Data Streamsyes
Amazon Kinesis Video Streamsyes
AWS Lambdayes
Amazon Lexyes
Amazon CloudWatch Logsyes
AWS Elemental MediaTailoryes
AWS Elemental MediaConnect-
AWS Elemental MediaConvertyes
AWS Elemental MediaPackage Liveyes
AWS Elemental MediaPackage Video on Demandyes
Amazon MQ-
Amazon VPC NAT Gatewaysyes
Amazon Neptuneyes
AWS OpsWorksyes
Amazon Polly-
Amazon QLDByes
Amazon RDSyes
Amazon Redshiftyes
Amazon Rekognition-
AWS RoboMakeryes
Amazon Route 53yes
Amazon Route 53 Resolveryes
Amazon S3yes
Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Jobs-
Amazon SageMaker Endpointsyes
Amazon SageMaker Endpoint Instancesyes
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth-
Amazon SageMaker Processing Jobs-
Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs-
AWS Service Catalog-
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)-
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)yes
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)yes
AWS Systems Manager - Run Command-
AWS Step Functions-
AWS Storage Gatewayyes
Amazon SWF-
Amazon Textract-
AWS Transfer Familyyes
AWS Transit Gatewayyes
Amazon Translate-
AWS Trusted Advisor-
AWS API Usage-
AWS Site-to-Site VPNyes
AWS WAF Classic-
AWS WAF-
Amazon WorkMailyes
Amazon WorkSpacesyes

To monitor resources based on tags

  1. Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS > Edit for the desired AWS instance.
  2. For Resources to be monitored, select Monitor resources selected by tags.
  3. Enter the Key and Value.
  4. Select Save.

Configure service metrics

Once you add a service, Dynatrace starts automatically collecting a suite of metrics for this particular service. These are recommended metrics.

Service-wide metrics are metrics for the whole service across all regions. Typically, these metrics include dimensions containing Region in their name. If selected, these metrics are displayed on a separate chart when viewing your AWS deployment in Dynatrace. Keep in mind that available dimensions differ among services.

To change a metric's statistics, you have to recreate that metric by choosing different statistics. You can choose among the following statistics: Sum, Minimum, Maximum, Average, and Sample count. The Average + Minimum + Maximum statistics enable you to collect all three statistics as one metric instead of one statistic for three metrics separately. This can reduce your expenses for retrieving metrics from your AWS deployment.

  • 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)

Optional metrics

Apart from the recommended metrics, most services have the possibility of enabling optional metrics.

  • Can be added and configured manually

Add and configure metrics

  1. Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS.
  2. On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select Edit for the desired AWS instance.
  3. Scroll down to the Services section and select Manage services.
  4. To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
  5. Select Add new metric.
  6. From the menu, select the metric you want.
  7. Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
  8. To configure a metric, select Edit.
  9. Select Apply to save your configuration.
Related tags
Infrastructure Observability