Local self-monitoring environment
- Extension
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A Dynatrace Managed Cluster includes a dedicated local self-monitoring environment that collects internal deployment self-monitoring metrics. This environment is a fully working and accessible Dynatrace environment. It includes all the self-monitoring metrics collected and aggregated from the other environments on your Dynatrace Managed Cluster. Data is exclusively stored on premises on your Managed Cluster. For details, see Self-monitoring metrics.
Details
This extension targets users who monitor health and size of the Dynatrace Managed Cluster.
The extension enables you to:
- Get an overview of current Dynatrace Cluster utilization.
- Check whether the Dynatrace Cluster has sufficient capacity for the current load.
- Review current and past ingest of data into the Dynatrace Cluster, for example service calls or user sessions / actions.
- View the number of connected OneAgents to the Dynatrace Cluster over time.
Self-monitoring environment
You can navigate to the self-monitoring environment from the user menu, just as you would to any other environment. The local self-monitoring environment is named Local-Self-Monitoring. It's also displayed in the Cluster Management Console so you can assign user permissions to it.
Explore self-monitoring metrics
For an overview of the currently implemented self-monitoring metrics, filter for metrics prefixed with dsfm: in the metrics browser. The metrics description provides details. You can use the self-monitoring environment to set up alerting or further dashboarding. Dynatrace protects this environment from deletion.
Licensing
The self-monitoring environment is excluded from license consumption. Certain functionality is restricted in this self-monitoring environment. For example, it's impossible to connect OneAgents to the self-monitoring environment.
Requires DDU licensing
For technical reasons, the self-monitoring environment is available only for Dynatrace Managed customers using DDU licensing. The self-monitoring environment doesn't contribute to license consumption.
Cluster deployment health and utilization dashboard
The dashboard shows aggregated data for the environments in your Managed Cluster. It gives you an impression of the current utilization of your Managed Cluster and whether your Managed Cluster is still sized to cope with the current load.
This dashboard provides
- Insights into the current utilization of your Managed Cluster and Dynatrace Cluster.
- An overview of the different data ingest channels and the current capture rate.
- An overview of the Dynatrace OneAgents connected.
The self-monitoring dashboard targets the self-monitoring environment of Dynatrace Managed Clusters. You can also use it in other environments (Managed and SaaS), but some data shown may be inaccurate for these.
Get started
- Go to the Dynatrace Managed self-monitoring environment in which you want to install the dashboard.
- In Dynatrace Hub, select Dynatrace Self-Monitoring (Managed).
- Select Add to environment in the lower-right corner to install the self-monitoring extension in your environment.
This extension enables a dashboard for the self-monitoring environment on the Managed Cluster showing cluster utilization and data ingest on Managed Cluster.