Networks
Dynatrace infrastructure monitoring offers more than visibility into hosts and processes. With network communication monitoring, Dynatrace also gives you insight into the quality of the communications between your hosts and the processes that run on them. It isn't enough to know that a process has sufficient server resources and responds in a timely manner. You also need assurance that your processes are clearly communicating their responses to calling parties and have uninterrupted access to all required resources. You also need to know which processes are consuming your network resources. Such network communication insight can be gained by monitoring the data packets that are exchanged between processes and the hosts they run on.
Overhead generated by network monitoring is negligible and varies based on the analyzed traffic volume. Dynatrace monitors the overhead generated by network monitoring. If overhead increases above 5% of available CPU, Dynatrace, throttling occurs. The network module is then paused for slightly less than 3 minutes. After this time, the network is re-enabled. If the threshold is still exceeded, network throttling occurs again, with the network module paused for twice as long. This continues until the threshold is no longer exceeded. The timing of the pauses doubles each time that the network is re-enabled and the threshold remains exceeded, up to a maximum pause time of 45 minutes.
- Dynatrace analyzes the network packets in memory in real time.
- Dynatrace doesn't store the packets on a drive, either on monitored hosts or in the Dynatrace cluster.
- Dynatrace analyzes packet headers only, not the payload.
Monitor network communications
Learn the basics of Dynatrace network monitoring, including how to analyze network health and recognize common network issues.
Detect network errors
Learn how errors such as dropped packets and retransmissions on the network level can affect the performance and connectivity of your services.
Extended network monitoring
Extend network monitoring with network traffic metrics in containerized Linux hosts using NetTracer.
Troubleshoot network monitoring
Learn how to troubleshoot network monitoring.