Enable service monitoring
To enable monitoring for this service, you first need to integrate Dynatrace with Amazon Web Services:
Add the service to monitoring
In order to view the service metrics, you must add the service to monitoring in your Dynatrace environment.
To add a service to monitoring
- Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS.
- On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select the desired AWS instance. Select the Edit button.
- Scroll down and select Add service. Choose the service name from the dropdown list and select Add service.
- Select Save changes.
All cloud services consume Davis data units (DDUs). The amount of DDU consumption per service instance depends on the number of monitored metrics and their dimensions (each metric dimension results in the ingestion of 1 data point; 1 data point consumes 0.001 DDUs).
Once AWS cloud services are added to monitoring, you might have to wait 15-20 minutes before the metric values are displayed.
Monitor resources based on tags
You can choose to monitor resources based on existing AWS tags, as Dynatrace automatically imports them from service instances. Nevertheless, the transition from AWS to Dynatrace tagging isn't supported for all AWS services. Expand the table below to see which cloud services are filtered by tagging.
To monitor resources based on tags
- Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS > Edit for the desired AWS instance.
- For Resources to be monitored, select Monitor resources selected by tags.
- Enter the Key and Value.
- Select Save.
Configure service metrics
Once you add a service, Dynatrace starts automatically collecting a suite of metrics for this particular service. These are recommended metrics.
Service-wide metrics are metrics for the whole service across all regions. Typically, these metrics include dimensions containing Region in their name. If selected, these metrics are displayed on a separate chart when viewing your AWS deployment in Dynatrace. Keep in mind that available dimensions differ among services.
To change a metric's statistics, you have to recreate that metric by choosing different statistics. You can choose among the following statistics: Sum, Minimum, Maximum, Average, and Sample count. The Average + Minimum + Maximum statistics enable you to collect all three statistics as one metric instead of one statistic for three metrics separately. This can reduce your expenses for retrieving metrics from your AWS deployment.
Recommended metrics
- Are enabled by default
- Can't be disabled
- Can have recommended dimensions (enabled by default, can't be disabled)
- Can have optional dimensions (disabled by default, can be enabled)
Optional metrics
Apart from the recommended metrics, most services have the possibility of enabling optional metrics.
- Can be added and configured manually
Add and configure metrics
- Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS.
- On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select Edit for the desired AWS instance.
- Scroll down to the Services section and select Manage services.
- To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
- Select Add new metric.
- From the menu, select the metric you want.
- Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
- To configure a metric, select Edit.
- Select Apply to save your configuration.