Hardware and system requirements for routing/monitoring ActiveGates on Windows

Hardware and system requirements: Routing OneAgent traffic to Dynatrace, monitoring cloud environments, or monitoring remote technologies with extensions

For hardware and system requirements for other ActiveGate purposes, see:

Hardware and system requirements for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates, which support a subset of operating systems and are more demanding in terms of hardware and system requirements than are ActiveGates that are used for routing and monitoring.
Hardware and system requirements for the zRemote module for z/OS monitoring. ActiveGates running the zRemote module are more demanding in terms of hardware and system requirements than are ActiveGates that are used for routing and monitoring.

Run ActiveGate on dedicated system

For optimal performance and enhanced security, we recommend installing and running ActiveGate on a dedicated system. Utilizing ActiveGate on a dedicated system not only minimizes the risk of compromising ActiveGate authentication data but also reduces the potential for malicious configuration manipulation.

Hardware requirements

You need a machine dedicated to ActiveGate that has:

4 GB free disk space for ActiveGate and Extensions installation, configuration, and logs for auto update purposes.
4 GB for ActiveGate and OneAgent cached installers and container images—if such will need to be stored.
Space for dump files—if such will need to be stored. This functionality is turned off by default, but can be turned on in ActiveGate configuration. The maximum size of the storage space is configurable—100 GB by default.
2 GB free disk space for Extension Execution Controller logs retransmission persistence file.
Space for extension uploads—depending on extensions used.
2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
1 dual core processor.

For large environments, you may need to use a machine with additional CPU and memory.

Space requirements per directory

Space allocation per directory, for installation purposes:
(for more detailed allocation, refer to ActiveGate directories)

Top-level directory

Disk space requirements

ActiveGate and autoupdater executable files, libraries, and related files
%PROGRAMFILES%\dynatrace\gateway
relative to installation parameter: <INSTALL>\gateway
also configurable in GUI during installation

300 MB

ActiveGate configuration and related directories
For Environment ActiveGate, it also contains Extensions 1.0 and Extensions 2.0 configuration
%PROGRAMDATA%\dynatrace

2 MB

For Environment ActiveGate only: Extensions 1.0 and Extensions 2.0 executable files, libraries, and related files %PROGRAMFILES%\dynatrace\remotepluginmodule
relative to installation parameter: <INSTALL>\remotepluginmodule
also configurable in GUI during installation

850 MB

Space allocation per directory, for ActiveGate operation:
(for more detailed allocation, refer to ActiveGate directories)

Top-level directory

Disk space requirements

ActiveGate and autoupdater logs
ActiveGate packages directory for auto-update installer downloads
%PROGRAMDATA%\dynatrace

1.2 GB

ActiveGate temporary files
%PROGRAMDATA%\dynatrace\gateway\tmp

4 GB (including 3 GB for cached OneAgent installers and container images)

Dump files uploaded to ActiveGate by OneAgent
%PROGRAMDATA%\dynatrace\gateway\dump

Functionality off by default. When activated, can take configurable maximum size: default 100 GB.

For Environment ActiveGate only: ActiveGate Extensions 1.0 and Extensions 2.0 logs, cache, run-time work area
%PROGRAMDATA%\dynatrace\remotepluginmodule

2 GB

For Environment ActiveGate only: ActiveGate extensions upload directory
%PROGRAMFILES%\dynatrace\remotepluginmodule\plugin_deployment

Depending on uploaded extensions

Extension Execution Controller logs retransmission persistence file default: %PROGRAMFILES%\dynatrace\remotepluginmodule/agent/runtime
path relative to installation parameter INSTALL: <INSTALL>/remotepluginmodule/agent/runtime

Up to 2 GB by default. Depending on volume of logs ingest.

Supported operating systems

Supported operating systems:

Windows OS

Versions

CPU architectures

Windows

10, 11

x86-64

Windows Server

2016, 2019, 2022

x86-64

System requirements

ActiveGate supports only operating systems running on the x86-64 architecture (64-bit Intel/AMD).
Ensure that you have proper network port configuration.
ActiveGate installation is not supported on Windows with a disabled NT AUTHORITY\LocalService account.

AWS sizing guide

The following table represents the machine instance size requirement based on number of OneAgents communicating with the ActiveGate. On each host, OneAgent is performing eight monitoring tasks:

Infrastructure monitoring
Log monitoring
Full-stack monitoring of 3 Apache Tomcat instances
Full-stack monitoring of 2 Apache HTTP Server instances
Extension monitoring

The real number of hosts may be different depending on the monitored technologies in your environment. It is recommended that the machine on which ActiveGate is running should not exceed 50% CPU and 80% memory. Additionally, it must be assumed that ActiveGates may be inoperable during updates, restarts or short communication problems. In order to ensure high availability, operating ActiveGates should be able to takeover traffic of the unavailable ActiveGates

x86-64 architecture

The C6i machine instances and the estimates:

Instance

vCPU

Mem (GiB)

Storage

Dedicated EBS bandwidth (Mbps)

Network performance

Estimated number of hosts

c6i.large

3.75

EBS-Only

500

Moderate

800

c6i.xlarge

7.5

EBS-Only

750

High

1800

c6i.2xlarge

EBS-Only

1,000

High

2500