ActiveGate self-monitoring metrics

Dynatrace offers a special self-monitoring category of metrics to provide observability into the operation and health of Dynatrace components and features. These metrics are available in every Dynatrace Managed and SaaS environment and can be identified by the dsfm: metric prefix.

For more information, see Self-monitoring metrics.

Following is the list of self-monitoring metrics that can be used to get insights into the operation of an ActiveGate.

Active gate

AWS

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.aws.elements.bad

Active Gate - Aws - Elements - Bad

Count of elements that were successfully retrieved from AWS, but failed later on (e.g., due to parsing errors). Elements are e.g., number of metrics for metric query, number of instances for instances query etc.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.elements.reported

Active Gate - Aws - Elements - Reported

Count of elements that were successfully reported (sent) to the server by ActiveGate. Elements are e.g., number of metrics for metric query, number of instances for instances query etc.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.elements.total

Active Gate - Aws - Elements - Total

Count of all elements retrieved in the given timeframe. Elements are e.g., number of metrics for metric query, number of instances for instances query etc.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.data_delay

Active Gate - Aws - Data Delay

Sum of data delay (difference between expected last timestamp and actual last timestamp) for all entity and metric combinations

Millisecondautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.data_lost

Active Gate - Aws - Data Lost

Flag indicating whether we failed to obtain some of the data. 0 - all data obtained, 1 - some data lost.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.empty_responses

Active Gate - Aws - Empty Responses

Count of requests whose responses were empty even though we expected some data.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.missing_permissions

Active Gate - Aws - Missing Permissions

Missing Permissions in AWS monitoring

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.aws.monitored_entities

Active Gate - Aws - Monitored Entities

Number of monitored entities per AWS Credentials

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.query_time

Active Gate - Aws - Query Time

Summed time in milliseconds of all queries in the given timeframe.

Millisecondautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.aws.requests

Active Gate - Aws - Requests

Count of performed HTTP requests.

Countautovalue

Communication

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.communication.agent_modules.connected

Active Gate - Communication - Agent Modules - Connected

Number of OneAgent modules connected.

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.dropped

Active Gate - Communication - Messages - Dropped

Number of messages dropped due to timeouts. Non-zero value indicates data loss.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.rejected

Active Gate - Communication - Messages - Rejected

Number of messages rejected due to authorization issues. Non-zero value indicates data loss.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.resent

Active Gate - Communication - Messages - Resent

Number of messages resent by ActiveGate. Indicates communication issue that may eventually result in dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.dropped

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.queue.outgoing.usage

Active Gate - Communication - Queue - Outgoing - Usage

Number of messages queued. Growing value indicates messages are being received at a faster pace than sent out. Network performance is often a common root cause of this issue.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.dropped_messages

Active Gate - Communication - Dropped Messages

Deprecated. To be removed. Use: dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.dropped.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.incoming_traffic

Active Gate - Communication - Incoming Traffic

Deprecated. To be removed. Use: dsfm:active_gate.traffic.server.received and dsfm:active_gate.traffic.client.received respectively.

Kibibyteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.outgoing_traffic

Active Gate - Communication - Outgoing Traffic

Deprecated. To be removed. Use: dsfm:active_gate.traffic.server.sent and dsfm:active_gate.traffic.client.sent respectively.

Kibibyteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.resent_messages

Active Gate - Communication - Resent Messages

Deprecated. To be removed. Use: dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.resent.

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.traffic_in

Active Gate - Communication - Traffic In

Deprecated. To be removed. Use: dsfm:active_gate.traffic.server.received and dsfm:active_gate.traffic.client.received respectively.

Kibibyteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.communication.traffic_out

Active Gate - Communication - Traffic Out

Deprecated. To be removed. Use: dsfm:active_gate.traffic.server.sent and dsfm:active_gate.traffic.client.sent respectively.

Kibibyteautovalue

Event ingest

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.event_ingest.drop_count

Active Gate - Event Ingest - Drop Count

Number of dropped messages

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.event_ingest.event_attribute_semantic_count

Active Gate - Event Ingest - Event Attribute Semantic Count

Semantic Attribute Count per Event

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.event_ingest.event_attribute_unknown_count

Active Gate - Event Ingest - Event Attribute Unknown Count

Unknown Attribute Count per Event

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.event_ingest.event_incoming_count

Active Gate - Event Ingest - Event Incoming Count

Incoming Log Event Count

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.event_ingest.event_json_size

Active Gate - Event Ingest - Event Json Size

JSON Event Size Bytes

Byteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.event_ingest.event_otlp_size

Active Gate - Event Ingest - Event Otlp Size

OTLP Event Size Bytes

Byteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.event_ingest.event_plain_size

Active Gate - Event Ingest - Event Plain Size

Plain Event Size Bytes

Byteautoavgcountmaxminsum

Filecache

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.filecache.data_added_count

Active Gate - Filecache - Data Added Count

Size of files added to cache (in kiB)

Kibibyteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.filecache.data_removed_count

Active Gate - Filecache - Data Removed Count

Size of files removed from cache (in kiB)

Kibibyteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.filecache.data_requested_count

Active Gate - Filecache - Data Requested Count

Counts the amount of data requested from cache (in kiB)

Kibibyteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.filecache.data_served_count

Active Gate - Filecache - Data Served Count

Counts the amount of data served out of the cache (in kiB)

Kibibyteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.filecache.size_limit

Active Gate - Filecache - Size Limit

Configured limit of cache (in kiB)

Kibibyteautoavgcountmaxminsum

JVM

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.jvm.gc.major_collection_time

Active Gate - Jvm - Gc - Major Collection Time

ActiveGate java process major garbage collection time.

Millisecondautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.jvm.cpu_usage

Active Gate - Jvm - Cpu Usage

ActiveGate java process CPU usage.

Percent (%)autoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.jvm.heap_memory_available

Active Gate - Jvm - Heap Memory Available

ActiveGate java process heap memory size.

Byteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.jvm.heap_memory_used

Active Gate - Jvm - Heap Memory Used

ActiveGate java process heap memory used. Compare with heap memory size reported by dsfm:active_gate.jvm.heap_memory_available metric.

Byteautoavgcountmaxminsum

Kubernetes

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.kubernetes.api.connections.pool.available

Active Gate - Kubernetes - Api - Connections - Pool - Available

Number of idle persistent connections

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.kubernetes.api.query_count

Active Gate - Kubernetes - Api - Query Count

Number of api queries sent to monitored Kubernetes clusters

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.kubernetes.api.query_duration

Active Gate - Kubernetes - Api - Query Duration

Duration of api queries sent to monitored Kubernetes clusters

Millisecondautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.kubernetes.events.observed

Active Gate - Kubernetes - Events - Observed

ActiveGate observed Kubernetes Events

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.kubernetes.events.processed

Active Gate - Kubernetes - Events - Processed

ActiveGate Processed Kubernetes Events

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum

Metrics

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.metrics.ingest.otlp.datapoints.accepted

Active Gate - Metrics - Ingest - Otlp - Datapoints - Accepted

Number of accepted datapoints

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.metrics.ingest.otlp.datapoints.accepted.count

Active Gate - Metrics - Ingest - Otlp - Datapoints - Accepted - Count

Number of accepted datapoints

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.metrics.ingest.otlp.datapoints.received.total

Active Gate - Metrics - Ingest - Otlp - Datapoints - Received - Total

Total number of datapoints that arrived at the API.

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.metrics.ingest.otlp.datapoints.rejected

Active Gate - Metrics - Ingest - Otlp - Datapoints - Rejected

Number of rejected datapoints, split by reason of rejection

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.metrics.ingest.otlp.datapoints.rejected.count

Active Gate - Metrics - Ingest - Otlp - Datapoints - Rejected - Count

Number of rejected datapoints, split by reason of rejection

Countautovalue

Rest

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.rest.request_count

Active Gate - Rest - Request Count

ActiveGate number of incoming REST API calls

Countautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.rest.request_size

Active Gate - Rest - Request Size

ActiveGate REST API request size

Byteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.rest.response_size

Active Gate - Rest - Response Size

ActiveGate REST API response size

Byteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.rest.response_time

Active Gate - Rest - Response Time

ActiveGate REST API response time

Millisecondautoavgcountmaxminsum

Rum

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.rum.beacon_forwarded_count

Active Gate - Rum - Beacon Forwarded Count

Counts the number of beacons forwarded to the server by the Active gate

Countautovalue

Storage

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.storage.directory.limit

Active Gate - Storage - Directory - Limit

Maximum allowed directory size.

MebiByteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.storage.directory.size

Active Gate - Storage - Directory - Size

Directory size. Compare to limit reported by dsfm:active_gate.storage.directory.limit.

MebiByteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.storage.volume.free

Active Gate - Storage - Volume - Free

Storage volume free space left.

MebiByteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.storage.volume.total

Active Gate - Storage - Volume - Total

Storage volume size.

MebiByteautoavgcountmaxminsum

System

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.system.cpu_usage

Active Gate - System - Cpu Usage

Operating system CPU usage.

Percent (%)autoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.system.free_memory

Active Gate - System - Free Memory

Operating system free memory. Compare with total memory reported by dsfm:active_gate.system.total_memory metric.

MebiByteautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.system.total_memory

Active Gate - System - Total Memory

Operating system total memory.

MebiByteautoavgcountmaxminsum

Thread pool

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.thread_pool.busy_threads

Active Gate - Thread Pool - Busy Threads

Number of thread pool busy threads.

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum
dsfm:active_gate.thread_pool.queue_size

Active Gate - Thread Pool - Queue Size

Thread pool queue size.

Countautoavgcountmaxminsum

Traffic

Metric keyName and descriptionUnitAggregations
dsfm:active_gate.traffic.client.received

Active Gate - Traffic - Client - Received

Ingress traffic from Dynatrace environment

Byteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.traffic.client.sent

Active Gate - Traffic - Client - Sent

Egress traffic to Dynatrace environment

Byteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.traffic.server.received

Active Gate - Traffic - Server - Received

Ingress traffic from clients

Byteautovalue
dsfm:active_gate.traffic.server.sent

Active Gate - Traffic - Server - Sent

Egress traffic to clients

Byteautovalue