Infoblox DDI extension
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- Extension
- Published Oct 27, 2025
Monitor Infoblox DDI using SNMP
The Infoblox DDI SNMP Extension is a powerful tool designed to enhance network management capabilities by integrating Infoblox DDI with Dynatrace via SNMP monitoring.
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Overview
The extension allows network administrators to monitor and manage their Infoblox DDI infrastructure using standard SNMP protocols, providing a seamless and efficient way to ensure network reliability and performance. Dynatrace's Unified Analysis screens provide at-a-glance access and analysis for your Ops, DevOps and IT Admins.
Use cases
- Get insights into network performance and health.
- Streamline network management tasks with automated monitoring and alerts.
- Identify and resolve issues before they impact network operations.
- Minimize network downtime with timely alerts and proactive measures.
Activation and setup
Activate the extension in your environment web-UI using the Dynatrace Hub. Simply provide the necessary device configuration, and Dynatrace will automatically deploy the extension and begin monitoring.
For details, see SNMP extension documentation.
Details
The extension package contains:
- SNMP data source configuration for metric ingestion.
- Topology definitions for Infoblox devices.
- Dashboards offering monitoring overviews.
- Unified Analysis pages for each created entity.
The extension is built on top of the SNMP data source that is part of Dynatrace's Extensions 2.0 framework.
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.
A metric inherits the feature set of a subgroup, which in turn inherits the feature set of a group. Also, the feature set defined on the metric level overrides the feature set defined on the subgroup level, which in turn overrides the feature set defined on the group level.
ServiceStatus
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Service status | snmp.infoblox.ddi.service.status | Placeholder metric will also report a value of 1. Dimensions (Name, Status, Desc) contain data |
| Node Service status | snmp.infoblox.ddi.node.service.status | Placeholder metric will also report a value of 1. Dimensions (Name, Status, Desc) contain data |
DHCP
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Access count queries | snmp.infoblox.dhcp.ibDHCPSubnetPercentUsed | Percentage of dynamic DHCP address for subnet leased out at this time. Fixed addresses are always counted as leased for this calculation if the fixed addresses are within ranges of leases. |
Storage
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Allocation Units | snmp.infoblox.storage.AllocationUnits | The size, in bytes, of the data objects allocated from this pool. If this entry is monitoring sectors, blocks, buffers, or packets, for example, this number will commonly be greater than one. Otherwise this number will typically be one. |
| Raw Storage Size | snmp.infoblox.storage.Size | The size of the storage represented by this entry, in units of hrStorageAllocationUnits. |
| Raw Storage Used | snmp.infoblox.storage.Used | The amount of the storage represented by this entry that is allocated, in units of hrStorageAllocationUnits. |
DNS
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Failed queries | snmp.infoblox.dns.ibBindZonePlusViewFailure.count | Number of Failed queries since DNS process started. |
| Average non-authoritative latency | snmp.infoblox.dns.ibNetworkMonitorDNSNonAAT5AvgLatency | Average latency for incoming DNS queries during the last 5 minutes where the reply was non authoritative |
| Non-authoritative query count | snmp.infoblox.dns.ibNetworkMonitorDNSNonAAT5Count | Number of queries used to calculate the average latencies during the last 5 minutes where the reply was non-authoritative |
| Average authoritative latency | snmp.infoblox.dns.ibNetworkMonitorDNSAAT5AvgLatency | Average latency for incoming DNS queries during the last 5 minutes where the reply was authoritative |
| Authoritative query count | snmp.infoblox.dns.ibNetworkMonitorDNSAAT5Count | Number of queries used to calculate the average latencies during the last 5 minutes where the reply was authoritative |
base-metrics
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.memory_used | — |
| CPU Usage | snmp.infoblox.ddi.cpu.usage | Infoblox DDI CPU Usage (ibSystemMonitorCpuUsage) |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.cpu_usage | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.sysuptime | — |
