topic Re: Test Alerting in Dynatrace SaaS in Alerting

Test Alerting in Dynatrace SaaS

Konstantin_Mavr — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:51:04 GMT

Hi All,

is there a way to reproduce and test alerting in Dynatrace SaaS? During Service Acceptance we have to perform a necessary "smoke testing" of deployed monitoring & alerting. We tried to simulate different scenarios on monitored host but Dynatrace SaaS didn't fire an alert at all.

Can you provide a guide how we can test different scenarios because AI module identifies our attempts?

Thanks in advance,

Konstantin

Re: Test Alerting in Dynatrace SaaS

wolfgang_beer — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:06:21 GMT

That very much depends on what kind of situation you want to test. If its a simple CPU spike, its just necessary to use more than 95% CPU over 3 minutes and you get a problem opened.

For service baselining its at lest necessary to run the service for more than 5hours with continous load above 10 requests/min. You can also reduce that amount by changing the service anomaly detection config.

Best greetings,

Wolfgang

Re: Test Alerting in Dynatrace SaaS

Konstantin_Mavr — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:12:18 GMT

Testing is more related to Service Availability (stopped / crashed of different services).

Thanks,

Konstantin