Microsoft Hyper-V Infrastructure extension

• Latest Dynatrace
• Extension
• Published Oct 27, 2025

Monitor health and performance of the Hyper-V clusters, hosts and VMs.

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Overview

Monitor Hyper-V performance, track VM health, and detect cluster issues before impact.

This extension is designed to run locally on hosts that comprise the Hyper-V cluster. It doesn't offer remote monitoring. Additionally, compared to typical extensions, which run as LOCAL SERVICE , this one requires privileges elevated to LOCAL SYSTEM, in order to obtain metrics that can only be obtained through execution of the PowerShell scripts.

Get insights into performance of the Hyper-V fabric, tracking health, performance and resource utilization of the Hyper-V VMs, together with the context of their host and cluster resources. Monitor Hyper-V clusters, detect problems ahead of serious impact, and pinpoint the bottlenecks in the virtualization and application layer, including:

Hyper-V extension leverages PowerShell cmdlets and WMI queries to collect data from the Windows hypervisor, following best practices employed by Microsoft, as well as Dynatrace customers who contributed to validation of this extension in real-life situations.

Use cases

Compatibility information

This extension requires:

Note on topological relationships between discovered Hyper-V VMs and OneAgent-monitored VM instances:

Activation and setup

Details

This extension is intended to run locally on hosts that comprise the Hyper-V cluster. It executes:

If you are interested in logs collection from the Hyper-V cluster, use readily available OneAgent's log monitoring features.

Additionally, the extension delivers:

Licensing and cost

There is no charge for obtaining the extension, only for the data that the extension ingests. The details of license consumption will depend on which licensing model you are using. This will either be Dynatrace classic licensing or the Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS) model.

Metrics

License consumption is based on the number of metric data points ingested. The following formula will provide approximate annual data points ingested assuming all feature sets are enabled.

(
  (
      ( 3 * number of Clusters)
    + ( 9 * number of Hosts)
    + ( 6 * number of VMs)
    + ( 4 * number of Storage Devices)
    + ( 4 * number of Virtual Storage Devices)
    + ( 6 * number of NICs)
    + ( 6 * number of vNICs)
  ) / <Metrics Collection Interval>
) * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days data points per year

Classic licensing

In the classic licensing model, metric ingestion will consume Davis Data Units (DDUs) at the rate of .001 DDUs per metric data point. Multiply the above formula for annual data points by .001 to estimate annual DDU usage.

Feature sets

When activating your extension using monitoring configuration, you can limit monitoring to one of the feature sets. To work properly the extension has to collect at least one metric after the activation.

In highly segmented networks, feature sets can reflect the segments of your environment. Then, when you create a monitoring configuration, you can select a feature set and a corresponding ActiveGate group that can connect to this particular segment.

All metrics that aren't categorized into any feature set are considered to be the default and are always reported.

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