topic Alert if process restarts x number of times within a period in Alerting

Alert if process restarts x number of times within a period

michael_joseph_ — Tue, 11 May 2021 11:44:14 GMT

We have identified an issue with some of our applications that they will sometimes restart several times in a short period of time. The application becomes available until the next time some execution causes it to restart again. Is there a way to alert when a process restarts x number of times in a period? I see we can check if x number of processes are available or if the process becomes unavailable. I checked to see if the restart events where available in charting to see if I could create a custom event but I can't locate a metric within there.

Re: Alert if process restarts x number of times within a period

Babar_Qayyum — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 03:22:54 GMT

Hello @Michael P.

At the moment this option is not available. You can open an RFE to include this feature.

Regards,

Babar

Re: Alert if process restarts x number of times within a period

Yosi_Neuman — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:52:10 GMT

Hi @Michael P.

If those restarts are listed in logs can set Custom metrics for Log Monitoring and set custom alert on them

HTH

Yos

Re: Alert if process restarts x number of times within a period

michael_joseph_ — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:03:17 GMT

Hi @Yos N. These are Azure app services which currently Dynatrace does not capture the logs.

Re: Alert if process restarts x number of times within a period

Yosi_Neuman — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:22:25 GMT

Hi @Michael P.

So there is no logs 😞 , stand corrected.

Just a naive question for dummies like me that do not know Azure, can those restart be set as Azure alert and retrieve them with setting of metric events for alerting under Azure Monitor?

Yos

Re: Alert if process restarts x number of times within a period

Yosi_Neuman — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:57:20 GMT

And from glancing over the fresh new blog , its look like logs will be also available for Azure in the near feature.