What is a monitoring environment?
- Explanation
- 4-min read
- Published Dec 05, 2017
Your Dynatrace monitoring environment is where all your Dynatrace performance analysis takes place. Dynatrace OneAgent sends all captured monitoring data to your monitoring environment for analysis. A monitoring environment is analogous to an analysis server that provides all Dynatrace application-performance analysis functionality, including all dashboards, charts, reports and other tools.
Monitoring environment location
Your monitoring environment location depends on your deployment type.
| Deployment type | Monitoring environment location |
|---|---|
| Dynatrace Managed | In your own data center |
| Dynatrace for Government | In the cloud with FedRAMP moderate authorization |
Environment ID
All external access to your Dynatrace monitoring environment relies on two credential types: an environment ID and an access token.
Each environment that you monitor with Dynatrace is identified with a unique character string—the environment ID. The Dynatrace API relies heavily on environment IDs to ensure that it pulls monitoring data from and pushes relevant external events to the correct Dynatrace environments.
In Dynatrace Managed and in Dynatrace for Government, your environment ID is the string after /e/ in your Dynatrace environment URL:
https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/
For example, for the URL address https://managed-cluster/e/abc123a, the environment ID is abc123a.
Multiple monitoring environments
You can set up separate monitoring environments with a single Dynatrace Managed cluster.
When you set up multiple monitoring environments:
- Each monitoring environment shares the same user base and other account settings.
- The data collected from each monitoring environment is kept separate.
- It's easy to switch between monitoring views for separate environments to track the performance and availability of each environment.
Use cases
There are several reasons people choose to create separate monitoring environments.
For example:
- You may want to monitor your organization's development, staging, and production environments separately.
- You may want to maintain a separate monitoring environment for each of your organization's data centers.
Set up multiple monitoring environments
How you set up different monitoring environments depends on whether you use Dynatrace Managed or Dynatrace for Government.
| Deployment type | How set up different monitoring environments |
|---|---|
| Dynatrace Managed | You can use the Cluster Management Console. For details, see Manage your monitoring environments. |
| Dynatrace for Government | Contact your Dynatrace representative. |
Connect my multiple environments
With multiple environments, monitoring data is strictly separated by design. Environments do not automatically receive information one from another.
In some scenarios, however, you might need to connect your environments. For example:
- To trace calls between services monitored in different Dynatrace environments, you can configure cross-environment tracing. For details, see Set up cross-environment tracing.
- To display metrics from remote environments on your local environment's dashboards, you can set up cross-environment dashboard tiles. For details, see Create remote/multi-environment Dynatrace dashboards.