Dell PowerStore extension

• Latest Dynatrace
• Extension
• Published Oct 27, 2025

Monitor PowerStore Arrays for performance and health through the Dell PowerStore API.

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Overview

Use the Dynatrace Dell PowerStore extension to simplify monitoring of your PowerStore infrastructure and focus on essential insights into your PowerStore arrays.

The PowerStore extension runs on a Dynatrace ActiveGate and connects to the Dell PowerStore APIs.

Use cases

This extension is intended for people who use the Dell PowerStore storage and want to extend Dynatrace insights into the storage infrastructure on which workloads depend

Compatibility information

Activation and setup

Activate the extension in your environment via the in-product Hub, then provide the PowerStore connection and a user account to connect to PowerStore APIs. The user needs to have the Operator role; this role provides read-only access to the APIs the extension uses to collect metrics.

Details

The extension package contains:

The PowerStore extension collects metrics for PowerStore entities and builds topological relationships between them so that Dynatrace performance analytics can leverage causal dependencies and surface the root causes of issues.

The following entities are monitored:

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.

(
  (
    (  4 * number of Clusters)
  + ( 10 * number of Appliances)
  + (  8 * number of Volumes)
  + (  8 * number of Filesystems)
  + (  7 * number of NAS Servers)
  + (  5 * number of SMB-Shares)
  + (  7 * number of NFS-Exports)
  ) / <Metrics Collection Interval>
) * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days data points per year

Logs

This extension does not ingest logs.

Classic licensing

In the Dynatrace 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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Monitor PowerStore Arrays for performance and health through the Dell PowerStore API.