Manage private locations

Latest Dynatrace
How-to guide

To view and manage private locations, go to the Private locations tab in Synthetic 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 location. 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.

Diagnostics

The Diagnostics card displays the health status for each monitor type.

Capacity usage—the capacity usage for a monitor type. If the capacity usage is less than 80%, OK is displayed in the column, and if there is no data, 0 is displayed.
Compatibility—the number of ActiveGates that support a monitor type. For example, if there are three ActiveGates assigned to the location, but only two of them support the monitor type, you will see 2/3.
Monitors—the number of monitors by type assigned to the location.
Executions/hour—the number of executions per hour for a monitor type.
ActiveGates—the number of ActiveGates assigned to the location. This also includes the number of those ActiveGates that are offline. For example, if there are three ActiveGates assigned to the location, but one of them is offline, you will see 1/3.

For Capacity usage, Compatibility, and ActiveGates, the health status is additionally indicated by one of the following colors:

Green—no issues.
Yellow—there are issues that are not yet serious but might require attention.
Red—there are serious issues that require immediate attention.

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:

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.
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.

Containerized locations

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.