# Extensions

**URL:** https://community.dynatrace.com/c/platform/extensions/89.md?page=6

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## [Entity Selector with SQL Server extension 2.3.0](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/entity-selector-with-sql-server-extension-2-3-0/46128)

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**Author:** [@TimeZero](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/TimeZero)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/entity-selector-with-sql-server-extension-2-3-0/46128 "2025-11-10T12:57:56Z")

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Hi! We have auto tags for “sql:sql\_server\_availability\_replica” for our SQL Servers, but since the extension upgraded to 2.3.0, it doesn’t work anymore. I know in the patch notes it says the relation changed for the ent…

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## [Generic error with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/generic-error-with-oracle-cloud-infrastructure/54032)

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**Author:** [@jbreitenbaumer](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/jbreitenbaumer)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/generic-error-with-oracle-cloud-infrastructure/54032 "2025-11-10T10:57:15Z")

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Hi all, I am trying to connect Dynatrace to my OCI account using the OCI extension configuration. Unfortunately the connection is in state “ERROR” and I see the following in the logs: Failed to assign monitoring confi…

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## [Help with YAML customization for Microsoft SQL Server Extension](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/help-with-yaml-customization-for-microsoft-sql-server-extension/54011)

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**Author:** [@Joao1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Joao1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/help-with-yaml-customization-for-microsoft-sql-server-extension/54011 "2025-11-07T12:16:53Z")

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Hi, If possible, i need help with something related to the YAML of the extension. I was editing it for a custom extension using the same data source. I was trying to edit a query which is used for the database state, to…

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## [VMware Cloud Director](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/vmware-cloud-director/54006)

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**Author:** [@JoseSanchez](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/JoseSanchez)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/vmware-cloud-director/54006 "2025-11-06T08:50:58Z")

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Hi team, I’ve been asked by a large Dynatrace customer whether Dynatrace has any plans to provide monitoring for VMware Cloud Director through an extension, or whether we will need to develop a custom integration extens…

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## [Monitoring Azure SQL Managed Instance with Dynatrace SQL Server Extension](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/monitoring-azure-sql-managed-instance-with-dynatrace-sql-server-extension/38463)

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**Author:** [@jbottrell404](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/jbottrell404)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/monitoring-azure-sql-managed-instance-with-dynatrace-sql-server-extension/38463 "2025-11-05T14:27:59Z")

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Hello, Our environment has a few Azure SQL Managed Instances which we would like to monitor with Dynatrace. We’ve already enabled the Azure Monitor integration, but would like to see the breakdown of performance for eac…

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## [Extension 2.0 the API version](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/extension-2-0-the-api-version/53974)

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**Author:** [@henk\_stobbe](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/henk_stobbe)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 3, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/extension-2-0-the-api-version/53974 "2025-11-03T18:12:50Z")

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Hello, Not sure if this should be in developer? But what ever did happen to the extension 2.0 that could call api’s ? KR Henk

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## [IBM MQ Extension - Not able to see local queues](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ibm-mq-extension-not-able-to-see-local-queues/53929)

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**Author:** [@tris\_m](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/tris_m)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 29, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ibm-mq-extension-not-able-to-see-local-queues/53929 "2025-10-29T20:26:00Z")

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we’re running into a scenario where we have several queue managers configured( a mix of remote and oneagent configurations) where we are not able to see the local queues displayed in the local queue list under the Queue …

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## [What is best practice for monitoring Hyper-v?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-is-best-practice-for-monitoring-hyper-v/53800)

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**Author:** [@Ahmed\_Atef](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Ahmed_Atef)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 29, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-is-best-practice-for-monitoring-hyper-v/53800 "2025-10-29T08:41:19Z")

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What is the best cost-effective practice for monitoring Hyper-V environments in Dynatrace — specifically comparing Host Units consumption when using OneAgent installed directly on the Hyper-V host versus using an ActiveG…

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## [Detect Cisco device interface linkdown](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/detect-cisco-device-interface-linkdown/53883)

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**Author:** [@Shirai](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Shirai)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 29, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/detect-cisco-device-interface-linkdown/53883 "2025-10-29T04:58:54Z")

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Hi I am using the Generic Cisco Device Extension to monitor Cisco devices. I am planning to use a metric event to detect interface link downs. I thought I could achieve this by monitoring the metric “com.dynatrace.exten…

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## [OS Package Reporter](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/os-package-reporter/53891)

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**Author:** [@mizso74](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/mizso74)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/os-package-reporter/53891 "2025-10-28T15:51:43Z")

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Hi Folks, I have not found this OS Package Reporter in the HUB. Do you have any information about it? Best regards, János

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## [How to fix Forcepoint Extension error: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-fix-forcepoint-extension-error-expecting-value-line-1-column-1-char-0/53911)

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**Author:** [@Jon555123](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Jon555123)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-fix-forcepoint-extension-error-expecting-value-line-1-column-1-char-0/53911 "2025-10-28T15:51:30Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to configure the Forcepoint extension (com.dynatrace.extension.forcepoint\_1.1.0) to monitor our Forcepoint SMC at https://\[SMC\_IP\]:8082. The extension now fails with the following JSON parsing error. Cu…

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## [JMX Connection Pool - Does it work in Cloud ?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/jmx-connection-pool-does-it-work-in-cloud/53877)

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**Author:** [@susmita\_k](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/susmita_k)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/jmx-connection-pool-does-it-work-in-cloud/53877 "2025-10-27T18:38:32Z")

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We are migrating one of our java application in Kubernetes cluster. Can we still configure the JMX Extension and get the connection pool details ? We have tried to configure the same, but it is not successful.

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## [SQL Extension for Custom Queries using Microsoft Entra ID](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-extension-for-custom-queries-using-microsoft-entra-id/53843)

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**Author:** [@john\_schell\_avo](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/john_schell_avo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-extension-for-custom-queries-using-microsoft-entra-id/53843 "2025-10-24T06:51:55Z")

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Hi everyone, We need to make use of the Custom SQL Query Extension however, Microsoft Entra ID is not an option for authentication when adding the SQL Server Endpoint in the configuration. Has anyone figured out how…

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## [Configure Activegate priority inside an AG group for running extensions](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/configure-activegate-priority-inside-an-ag-group-for-running-extensions/53759)

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**Author:** [@Theodore\_x86](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Theodore_x86)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/configure-activegate-priority-inside-an-ag-group-for-running-extensions/53759 "2025-10-17T11:24:30Z")

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Hello. Quite simply, we want to run a remote extension from an activegate. However we have a second activegate hosted on another DC for failover incident (if activegate dies for some reason) It is preferable for traff…

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## [Blocking Error with charset\_normalizer in a Dynatrace Custom Extension on a Linux ActiveGate](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/blocking-error-with-charset-normalizer-in-a-dynatrace-custom-extension-on-a-linux-activegate/46307)

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**Author:** [@gusmazeikis](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/gusmazeikis)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/blocking-error-with-charset-normalizer-in-a-dynatrace-custom-extension-on-a-linux-activegate/46307 "2025-10-14T14:21:55Z")

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Current Setup: Dynatrace Managed version 1.286.86 Environment ActiveGate 1.285.30.20240227-095656 (OS Linux, x86, 64bit) Extensions 1.285.161.20240417-193840 Python extension 2.0, developed in VsCode 1.90.0 (user setup…

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## [TCPS/enable SSL in the Oracle extension's configuration](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/tcps-enable-ssl-in-the-oracle-extensions-configuration/53723)

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**Author:** [@mn\_24](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/mn_24)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/tcps-enable-ssl-in-the-oracle-extensions-configuration/53723 "2025-10-14T14:19:01Z")

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Hi, does anyone did this from A to Z and could advise what should be the process in order the connection/session of the monitoring user from Dynatrace(ActiveGate Oracle extension) to the Oracle database on DB server to …

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## [Failed to get data from queue manager (IBM MQ 2.0)](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/failed-to-get-data-from-queue-manager-ibm-mq-2-0/47302)

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**Author:** [@AK](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AK)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/failed-to-get-data-from-queue-manager-ibm-mq-2-0/47302 "2025-10-10T14:18:35Z")

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Hi Team, I need some guidance on Issue with IBM MQ extension 2.0. We are constantly receiving ‘Failed to get data from queue manager’ and when we check for problem details it shows below details. An error occurred get…

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## [IBM MQ Monitoring issue](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ibm-mq-monitoring-issue/37668)

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**Author:** [@kiranraju](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/kiranraju)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 6:53am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ibm-mq-monitoring-issue/37668 "2025-10-10T06:53:41Z")

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We are observing that Dynatrace is adding dtdTraceTagInfo into messages sent by One of the applications to the downstream system which is causing messages to fail on the downstream side as they are not able to parse the …

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## [Is it possible to use a Dummy extension to easily configure existing custom metrics/logs parsed by OpenPipeline?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-a-dummy-extension-to-easily-configure-existing-custom-metrics-logs-parsed-by-openpipeline/53432)

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**Author:** [@36Krazyfists](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/36Krazyfists)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-a-dummy-extension-to-easily-configure-existing-custom-metrics-logs-parsed-by-openpipeline/53432 "2025-10-09T19:00:44Z")

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One of the great things about the extensions.yaml is it’s a one-stop shop for configuring all the other things that go along with ingesting telemetry data (like metrics, logs, events, traces, etc…). It contains a pre-de…

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## [Unable to Fetch Redis Metrics from Kubernetes Pods Using Redis 2.0 Extension](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/unable-to-fetch-redis-metrics-from-kubernetes-pods-using-redis-2-0-extension/53638)

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**Author:** [@ytb55688](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ytb55688)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 8, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/unable-to-fetch-redis-metrics-from-kubernetes-pods-using-redis-2-0-extension/53638 "2025-10-08T13:48:19Z")

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Hi Team, I’m currently trying to monitor Redis running inside Kubernetes using the Redis 2.0 extension in Dynatrace. I’ve configured the extension and tried the following steps, but I’m still not able to fetch Redis met…

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## [Extension Creation problem](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/extension-creation-problem/53532)

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**Author:** [@ArneV](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ArneV)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [October 6, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/extension-creation-problem/53532 "2025-10-06T12:50:28Z")

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Im trying to setup my environment to create a SQL Extension. However i get 2 errors, i guess the first part is due to the second part. The environment is using a self signd certificate, but how can i skip the validatio…

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## [InterSystems IRIS (Remote) extension](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/intersystems-iris-remote-extension/53343)

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**Author:** [@avdveen](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/avdveen)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 1, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/intersystems-iris-remote-extension/53343 "2025-10-01T20:43:21Z")

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Hello, Is anyone using the IRIS extenion with ‘Verify SSL certificate’ option enabled? We imported the internal root CA and host’s certs into the ActiveGate keystore, but keep getting the error: \<span\>SSL: CERTIFICATE…

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## [SQL Server extension make calls less frequently](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-server-extension-make-calls-less-frequently/49801)

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**Author:** [@crp\_dyna](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/crp_dyna)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 1, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-server-extension-make-calls-less-frequently/49801 "2025-10-01T20:36:35Z")

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We are using SQL server extension to monitor SQL server databases. The extension has metrics to monitor the SQL Server databases. These metrics makes call every minute to SQL server databases. What we have noticed is th…

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## [Remote windows monitoring extension 1.4.5 memory queries failed](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/remote-windows-monitoring-extension-1-4-5-memory-queries-failed/53564)

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**Author:** [@rastislav\_danis](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/rastislav_danis)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/remote-windows-monitoring-extension-1-4-5-memory-queries-failed/53564 "2025-09-30T07:54:16Z")

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After upgrade of Remote windows extension to latest version 1.4.5, all remote host memory queries failed with error: GENERIC\_ERROR Cannot execute query=(Memory), err=Cannot execute query: Memory on device XXX err:Except…

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## [SQL Extension cron schedule question](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-extension-cron-schedule-question/53527)

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**Author:** [@susmita\_k](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/susmita_k)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-extension-cron-schedule-question/53527 "2025-09-26T06:13:05Z")

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Is there a way to schedule a query to run twice a day for db sql extension ? I want to run the query every day at 4:30 am and 10 pm.

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## [SQL Extensions Kerberos Authentication](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-extensions-kerberos-authentication/53466)

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**Author:** [@Erica\_Kelly](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Erica_Kelly)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 24, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sql-extensions-kerberos-authentication/53466 "2025-09-24T14:12:51Z")

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I’m having difficulty establishing Kerberos authentication to a SQL server with the SQL Server Extension. If anyone has an example of the configuration that worked for you that would be great. I don’t know the format eve…

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## [Collect successfully Prometheus metric of type "Summary"](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/collect-successfully-prometheus-metric-of-type-summary/53410)

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**Author:** [@gilles\_tabary](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/gilles_tabary)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/collect-successfully-prometheus-metric-of-type-summary/53410 "2025-09-18T12:50:49Z")

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Hello. We need to ingest Promethus SonarQube metric sonarqube\_compute\_engine\_tasks\_running\_duration\_seconds which is of type “Summary”. The doc Prometheus data source reference — Dynatrace Docs says : Summary Count…

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## [Monitoring Palo Alto Firewall Availability](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/monitoring-palo-alto-firewall-availability/53384)

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**Author:** [@TahirJanwari](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/TahirJanwari)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/monitoring-palo-alto-firewall-availability/53384 "2025-09-17T10:13:50Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m trying to set up availability monitoring for our Palo Alto firewalls in Dynatrace, and I could use some guidance. So far: I don’t see a built-in Palo Alto availability metric in Dynatrace. As a worka…

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## [SAP HANA - fetch top queries](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sap-hana-fetch-top-queries/38518)

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**Author:** [@Theodore\_x86](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Theodore_x86)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/sap-hana-fetch-top-queries/38518 "2025-09-15T09:16:04Z")

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Hello. Is there any way I can add to a dashboard the 10 most time consuming or mostly requested DB Queries for a SAP HANA? I do not see such metric in neither SAP nor SAP HANA extensions? Any idea? Thank you.

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## [Add custom Informix metrics to extension](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-custom-informix-metrics-to-extension/53330)

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**Author:** [@NicoleMT](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/NicoleMT)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 13, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-custom-informix-metrics-to-extension/53330 "2025-09-13T12:46:17Z")

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Hello Community, I have a question. Our client is using the IBM Informix extension, which has been very useful. However, the client requires additional metrics that are not included in the extension, such as checkpoint …

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