Forcepoint extension
- Latest Dynatrace
- Extension
- Published Oct 27, 2025
Monitor your forcepoint appliances and their usage.
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Overview
Monitor your Forcepoint appliances and their usage with this extension, which provides insights into systems, CPUs, interfaces, disks and services.
Get quick insights with the included Forcepoint dashboard overview or dive deeper into the seamlessly-integrated screens of the different entities created by the custom topology of the extension.
Requirements
- ActiveGate on Windows or Linux with version 1.273+
- Dynatrace version 1.273+
- There must be connectivity between the ActiveGate and the Forcepoint Appliance API
Activation and setup
Authentication
The extension requires a username and password based authentication to run. This user needs to have access to all the polling and system status endpoints of the Forcepoint appliance API.
Dynatrace configuration
The following fields need to be configured for the extension:
- URL: Forcepoint appliance API address.
- User name: User used to authenticate against the API.
- Password: Password for the above user.
- Frequency: How often, in minutes, the extension runs. This frequency is the same for all configured endpoints.
- Debug: If enabled, generates more verbose logs used for troubleshooting.
Make sure to select which feature sets (metric groups) you would like this configuration to collect. Selecting too few will not give you the proper visibility and you may miss out on important performance data, as well as key indicators that can be correlated between different objects. The endpoints related to unselected feature sets will not be queried.
Feature sets
When activating your extension using a 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.
Interface
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Interface speed | forcepoint.system.interface.speed | — |
| Interface throughput | forcepoint.system.interface.throughput | — |
| Interface status | forcepoint.system.interface.status | — |
| Bytes received | forcepoint.system.interface.b_recv.count | — |
| Bytes sent | forcepoint.system.interface.b_sent.count | — |
| Dropped in | forcepoint.system.interface.drop_in.count | — |
| Dropped out | forcepoint.system.interface.drop_out.count | — |
| Errors in | forcepoint.system.interface.err_in.count | — |
| Errors out | forcepoint.system.interface.err_out.count | — |
| Packets in rate | forcepoint.system.interface.in | — |
| Packets out rate | forcepoint.system.interface.out | — |
| Packets received | forcepoint.system.interface.p_recv.count | — |
| Packets sent | forcepoint.system.interface.p_sent.count | — |
default
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Memory usage | forcepoint.system.memory.musedprc | — |
| Memory used | forcepoint.system.memory.mused | — |
| Memory total | forcepoint.system.memory.mtotal | — |
Disk
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Disk I/O | forcepoint.system.disk.iops | — |
| Disk used space | forcepoint.system.disk.used | — |
| Disk free space | forcepoint.system.disk.free | — |
| Disk total space | forcepoint.system.disk.total | — |
| Disk usage | forcepoint.system.disk.rate | — |
CPU
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CPU usage | forcepoint.system.cpu.cpu_usage | — |
| Total CPU usage | forcepoint.system.total_cpu_usage | — |
Services
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Service status | forcepoint.system.service.status | — |
