Enable Observability for Developers

Temporary table of contents for Developer Observability

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Requirements

OneAgent comes with a big set of features that are activated by default. Nevertheless, you always need to explicitly activate features added by newer versions of OneAgent and opt-in features. For details see, OneAgent Features and API Configuration.

To enable Observability for Developers (Live Debugger), ensure that your OneAgent is up to date and deployed correctly.

Availability

Dynatrace Live Debugger is only available on Dynatrace SaaS deployments with a DPS accounts that have the Code Monitoring rate card associated with the account. Please contact a Dynatrace product expert via live chat within your environment. For further details about pricing, see the Container Monitoring documentation.

Enable Observability for Developers

In order to enable the Live Debugger (as part of the Observability for Developers product), the environment admin needs to enable the Live Debugger feature application through:

  1. Enable the Live Debugger OneAgent feature.

    1. Go to Settings > Preferences > OneAgent features.

    2. Enable the Java Live-Debugger, Node.js Live-Debugger, or both, depending on your needs.

      1. Go to Settings > Preferences > OneAgent features.
      2. Enable the Java Live-Debugger, Node.js Live-Debugger, or both.
        • Enabling the Java Live-Debugger feature requires a restart of the monitored Java process to fully activate.
      1. On the process group overview page, select Settings.
      2. Go to Preferences > OneAgent features.
      3. Enable the Java Live-Debugger, Node.js Live-Debugger, or both.
        • Enabling the Java Live-Debugger feature requires a restart of the monitored Java process to fully activate.
      1. On the process overview page, select More (…) > Settings.
      2. Go to Preferences > OneAgent features.
      3. Enable the Java Live-Debugger, Node.js Live-Debugger, or both.
        • Enabling the Java Live-Debugger feature requires a restart of the monitored Java process to fully activate.

    3. Restart the OneAgent.

  2. Enable Observability for Developers

    Go to Settings > Observability for Developers > Enable Observability for Developers

    1. On the process group overview page, select Settings.
    2. Go to Observability for Developers > Enable Observability for Developers.
    1. On the process overview page, select More (…) > Settings.
    2. Go to Observability for Developers > Enable Observability for Developers

  3. Grant permission to use the Live Debugger via an IAM policy.

Now you can enter the Live Debugger and select the services you would like to debug.