Pre-upgrade assessment

Before executing the upgrade of your Dynatrace Managed environments to SaaS, use the following section to collect and assess the necessary information to plan your upgrade. Go through all of the questions, taking into consideration all the environments that you plan to upgrade. In the end, solve all the issues by following recommended actions.

Upgrade assistance approach

  • Do you plan to leverage Dynatrace ACE Services engagement, or do you already have an active engagement?

    Prepare a good plan for your upgrade, and remember, you can always talk to a Dynatrace product expert via live chat within your Dynatrace environment.

Data residency and redundancy

  • Does your Dynatrace platform have to be hosted in a specific country? Which one?

    No action is required.

  • Do you plan to merge or split environments?

    No action is required. Proceed with a one-to-one environment migration.

Environment constraints and features

  • What's the maximum count of monitored hosts planned in one environment?

    To find this information, in your environment, go to Hosts and use the quick filter to get the count for Infrastructure only and Full stack. The sum of these hosts is the maximum count of monitored hosts in the selected environment.

    No action is required.

  • How many custom IP mappings do you use?

    To find this information, in your environment, go to Settings > Web and mobile monitoring > Map IP addresses to locations and count the number of IP address mapping rules.

    No action is required.

  • How many user actions per minute do you plan to monitor?

    To find this information, in your environment, go to Data Explorer and create a graph containing Action count metrics for web, mobile and custom. The highest value for these metrics is the maximum number of user actions per minute that you currently monitor.

    No action is required.

  • How many key user actions per application do you plan to monitor?

    To find this information, in your environment, go to Frontend, count the number of configured key user actions for each application, and take the highest value.

    No action is required.

  • How many key user actions in one environment do you plan to monitor?

    To find this information, in your environment, go to Frontend, count the number of configured key user actions for each application, and sum them up.

    No action is required.

Data retention

  • What's the required retention of distributed traces, code-level insights, and errors?

    To find this information, in the Cluster Management Console (CMC), go to Environments, select an environment, scroll to the Storage settings section and check the value for Distributed traces, code insights, and errors.

    No action is required

  • What's the required retention of services: Requests and request attributes?

    To find this information, in the Cluster Management Console (CMC), go to Environments, select an environment, scroll to the Storage settings section and check the value for Services: Requests and request attributes retention.

    No action is required

Questions?

Visit the Upgrade to SaaS forum to ask questions, get answers, and share what you've learned with others.