topic Alert on ActiveGate going offline in Alerting

Alert on ActiveGate going offline

SrikanthSamraj — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:44:12 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to configure an alerting when an ActiveGate goes offline?

Regards,

Srikanth

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

Fin_Ubels — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:00:51 GMT

Hey Srikanth,

You could alert on a self monitoring activegate metric such as dsfm:active_gate.jvm.cpu_usage. If you split by activegate and then alert on missing data then you'd be able to alert on them going down as when they're down the dsfm:active_gate metrics wont be reported. Would this be what you're looking for?

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

SrikanthSamraj — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:08:44 GMT

Thanks much @Fin_Ubels .

This helps to indirectly address the issue I'm trying to solve. I'd be more than happy if Dynatrace had OOTB solution that alerts when an activegate is offline.

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

rastislav_danis — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:50:31 GMT

I used this setup for one of our customer's env and it works like charm. (maybe you have to play a little bit with advanced model properties to fit your needs).

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

Peter_Youssef — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:01:03 GMT

Hello @SrikanthSamraj

Navigate to Data explorer > type activegate > the related metrics will be filtered and shown through the UI.
For visualization purposes > define the proposed thresholds.
For alerting purposes > configure metric alert following steps provided by @rastislav_danis

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

rastislav_danis — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:17:08 GMT

My suggested metric was just deprecated, use "dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.dropped" instead.

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

rseibert1 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:06:51 GMT

Wondering how to get the metric event to tell you which of your active gates has dropped messages I can get this in metric explorer but not having luck for the metric selector since parsing is not allowed.

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

rseibert1 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:45:11 GMT

Oh I was able to get the metric split by host 🙂

Re: ActiveGate offline alerting

Kenny_Gillette — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:35:33 GMT

Anybody create a classic dashboard around AG performance? I know there are new dashboards.