Manage private locations
- Latest Dynatrace
- How-to guide
- Published Sep 16, 2025
To view and manage private locations, go to the Private locations tab in 
Synthetic.
See location details and edit location
Select a location to see its details and edit it. For classic locations, you can see ActiveGates assigned to the locations. They are listed and displayed in red when a Synthetic engine or an ActiveGate itself is offline; the Status column shows a corresponding message. You can add or delete ActiveGates from the location details page. You can also make other changes and Save them.
In the latest Dynatrace, the containerized locations are only available in the view mode. Select Settings Classic to go to the previous Dynatrace and edit the location there.
Metrics for health status
Metrics for the health status of each monitor type are available for charting and alerting. Metrics for charting and alerting on the health status of each monitor type are available in 
Notebooks. For example, you can choose the following metrics for charting and alerting:
- Synthetic - HTTP - Engine Utilization
- Synthetic - HTTP High Resource - Engine Utilization
- Synthetic - Browser - Engine Utilization
We strongly recommend splitting these metrics by location to get an accurate view of location health.
Location outage handling
For each location, enable the corresponding switches to generate problems when a location or any of its ActiveGate engines are unavailable. The following switches are currently available:
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You can generate a problem when the entire private location is unavailable (all ActiveGates are offline), or if the location lacks the capability required for the monitor type to be executed.
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You can generate a problem when a single ActiveGate at this location is offline.
For example, suppose your location has two ActiveGates, and you enable both problem switches. You will see three problems when your location is unavailable—one for the entire location and one for each ActiveGate that's offline.
For containerized locations, you can only generate a problem when the entire private location is unavailable (all ActiveGates are offline), or if the location lacks the capability required for the monitor type to be executed.