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Enable service monitoring

  • How-to guide
  • 2-min read
  • Published Nov 09, 2023

To enable monitoring for this service, you first need to integrate Dynatrace with Amazon Web Services:

  • Set up Dynatrace SaaS integration
  • Set up Dynatrace Managed integration

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

  1. Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS.
  2. On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select the desired AWS instance. Select the Edit button.
  3. Scroll down and select Add service. Choose the service name from the dropdown list and select Add service.
  4. Select Save changes.
Cloud-service monitoring consumption

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.

Tag filtering per service

NameTags monitoring & filtering

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in)

yes

AWS Lambda (built-in)

yes

Amazon Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in)

yes

Amazon DynamoDB (built-in)

yes

Amazon EBS (built-in)

yes

Amazon EC2 (built-in)

yes

Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) (built-in)

yes

Amazon RDS (built-in)

yes

Amazon S3 (built-in)

yes

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority

yes

Amazon API Gateway

yes

AWS App Runner

yes

Amazon AppStream

yes

AWS AppSync

yes

Amazon Athena

yes

Amazon Aurora

yes

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

-

AWS Billing

-

Amazon Keyspaces

yes

AWS Chatbot

-

Amazon CloudFront

yes

AWS CloudHSM

yes

Amazon CloudSearch

-

AWS CodeBuild

yes

Amazon Cognito

-

Amazon Connect

-

AWS DataSync

yes

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

yes

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

yes

Amazon DocumentDB

yes

AWS Direct Connect

yes

Amazon DynamoDB

yes

Amazon EBS

yes

Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet

-

Amazon EC2 API

-

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

yes

Amazon ECS Container Insights

yes

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

yes

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

yes

Amazon ElastiCache (EC)

yes

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

yes

Amazon Elastic Inference

yes

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

-

Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)

yes

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES)

yes

Amazon EventBridge

yes

Amazon FSx

yes

Amazon GameLift

-

AWS Glue

yes

Amazon Inspector

yes

AWS Internet of Things (IoT)

-

AWS IoT Things Graph

-

AWS IoT Analytics

-

Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka

yes

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

yes

Amazon Data Firehose

yes

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

yes

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

yes

AWS Lambda

yes

Amazon Lex

yes

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

yes

AWS Elemental MediaTailor

yes

AWS Elemental MediaConnect

-

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

yes

AWS Elemental MediaPackage Live

yes

AWS Elemental MediaPackage Video on Demand

yes

Amazon MQ

-

Amazon VPC NAT Gateways

yes

Amazon Neptune

yes

AWS OpsWorks

yes

Amazon Polly

-

Amazon QLDB

yes

Amazon RDS

yes

Amazon Redshift

yes

Amazon Rekognition

-

AWS RoboMaker

yes

Amazon Route 53

yes

Amazon Route 53 Resolver

yes

Amazon S3

yes

Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Jobs

-

Amazon SageMaker Endpoints

yes

Amazon SageMaker Endpoint Instances

yes

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

-

Amazon SageMaker Processing Jobs

-

Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs

-

AWS Service Catalog

-

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

-

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

yes

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

yes

AWS Systems Manager - Run Command

-

AWS Step Functions

-

AWS Storage Gateway

yes

Amazon SWF

-

Amazon Textract

-

AWS Transfer Family

yes

AWS Transit Gateway

yes

Amazon Translate

-

AWS Trusted Advisor

-

AWS API Usage

-

AWS Site-to-Site VPN

yes

AWS WAF Classic

-

AWS WAF

-

Amazon WorkMail

yes

Amazon WorkSpaces

yes

To monitor resources based on tags

  1. Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS > Edit for the desired AWS instance.
  2. For Resources to be monitored, select Monitor resources selected by tags.
  3. Enter the Key and Value.
  4. 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

  1. Go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS.
  2. On the AWS overview page, scroll down and select Edit for the desired AWS instance.
  3. Scroll down to the Services section and select Manage services.
  4. To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
  5. Select Add new metric.
  6. From the menu, select the metric you want.
  7. Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
  8. To configure a metric, select Edit.
  9. Select Apply to save your configuration.
Related tags
Infrastructure ObservabilityAWS