ActiveGate purposes and functionality

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An ActiveGate can be used for three different use cases, which we refer to as purposes:

Each purpose comes with a different subset of functional modules. Modules should not be mixed between purposes—such re-configuration is not supported.

Functionality available for the routing-monitoring ActiveGates

FunctionalityModule namex86-64 host-based deployment on Linux and Windowss390 host-based deployment on Linuxarm64 host-based deployment on LinuxContainerized deployment

Message Routing

OneAgent routing

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Buffering and compression

OneAgent routing

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Authentication

OneAgent routing

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Accessing sealed networks

OneAgent routing

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Memory dumps

Memory dumps

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

AWS monitoring

AWS

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Cloud Foundry monitoring

Cloud Foundry

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Kubernetes/OpenShift monitoring

Kubernetes

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Azure monitoring

Azure

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Monitoring using an ActiveGate extension

Extensions

Applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Oracle database insights

Database insights

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Monitoring virtualized infrastructure

VMware

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Dynatrace API

REST API

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Log Monitoring

Log Monitoring

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable 1

Metric ingestion

HTTP Metric API

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

OpenTelemetry metric ingestion

OTLP Ingest

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

OpenTelemetry trace ingestion

OTLP Ingest

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

OpenTelemetry log ingestion

Log Monitoring

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable 1

Real User Monitoring

Beacon forwarder

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Live Debugging

Debugging

Applicable

Not applicable

Applicable

Applicable

1

Log ingest API endpoint is supported on containerized ActiveGate in a number of supported Kubernetes flavours when provisioned with Dynatrace Operator. Since ActiveGate uses file buffers, persistent storage is recommended to prevent data loss during restarts or rescheduling

Functionality available for ActiveGates running synthetic monitors from a private location

FunctionalityModule namex86-64 host-based deployment on Linux and Windowss390 host-based deployment on Linuxarm64 host-based deployment on LinuxContainerized deployment

Execute private HTTP monitors

Synthetic

Applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Applicable1

Execute private browser monitors

Synthetic

Applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Applicable1

Functionality available for ActiveGates with the zRemote module

FunctionalityModule namex86-64 host-based deployment on Linux and Windowss390 host-based deployment on Linuxarm64 host-based deployment on LinuxContainerized deployment

zRemote module for z/OS monitoring

zRemote

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable