Manage service health
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Services provides two key perspectives for monitoring your applications: Performance and Health views. In this tutorial, we'll focus on the Performance view.
The Performance and Health views are not available on the Explorer Preview tab. For more details on this new tab in Services, refer to this blog post in the Dynatrace Community.
Overview of the Performance view
The following video will walk you through the Performance view and show you how to drill down into individual services to understand their health, metrics, infrastructure, logs, and events.
This video is slightly outdated. The current Services app offers additional analysis pages, including failure analysis, response time, database queries, and messaging.
Try it yourself
You can try the steps below in the Dynatrace Playground environment.
Explore Performance view
From Services, go to Explorer > Performance to view all services along with their health and custom alerts, failure rates, and response times. Hover over a service's failure rate to see the degree of rate increases and quickly identify services that are degrading in performance.
2. Filter by namespace
In the Type to filter field, enter k8s.namespace.name = astroshop to display services that relate to the astroshop Kubernetes namespace.
In Services, go to the Explorer Preview tab to leverage the ready-made segments that join service entities with underlying metric data, enabling you to filter services by common dimensions, such as AWS region, Kubernetes namespace, or host group, without complex segment definitions or manual joins.
For more details on this new tab, refer to this blog post in the Dynatrace Community.
3. Select a service
Select the astroshop-recommendation service to open the detail view, which contains several tabs with detailed information about that service.
4. Review the Overview tab
The Overview tab provides comprehensive charts that show the failure rate, response time, and throughput across all endpoints of the selected service. This gives you a complete picture of how the service is performing. The overview also displays service properties such as the Kubernetes cluster and namespace where the service is deployed, along with other deployment metadata.
5. Check metrics
Go to the Metrics tab to view custom metrics from various sources, like Spring Micrometer and OpenTelemetry. These non-standard metrics supplement the default performance data with application-specific information that is important to your service.
6. Examine infrastructure
Switch to the Infrastructure tab to view the pods, processes, and hosts associated with the selected service. With this information, you can understand where the service is running and identify infrastructure dependencies.
7. Search logs
Go to the Logs tab to run log line queries and search for warnings, errors, or any log entries within the current timeframe. This makes it easy to correlate performance issues with specific log messages.
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