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Is "Host Health" available in a dashboard metric and in the API?

crabbylou — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:26:28 GMT

I know that we can create a dashboard object for "Host Health" and then filter on custom management zone, but can we call it as a metric on a dashboard object and/or in the API?

Thanks,

Lou

Re: Is "Host Health" available in a dashboard metric and in the API?

radek_jasinski — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:20:46 GMT

Hi,

From documentation:

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Host health

Displays the number of hosts (operating system instances, whether physical and virtual) in your environment compared to the number of hosts in your environment that are currently affected by problems. Each host instance equates to a Dynatrace OneAgent installed in your environment.

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So you can use this metric for example:

builtin:host.availability.state

Reported states:

UP - host working, OneAgent active and sending data
NO_DATA - host working, OneAgent active but not sending data
NO_DATA_AGENT_INACTIVE - host working, OneAgent inactive (disabled manually in configuration) and not sending data
SHUTDWON_HOST - host has been shut down
UNMONITORED_AGENT_STOPPED - host unmonitored: OneAgent stopped
UNMONITORED_AGENT_UPGRADE - host unmonitored: OneAgent in upgrade
UNMONITORED_AGENT_UNINSTALLED - host unmonitored: OneAgent uninstalled

Radek

Re: Is "Host Health" available in a dashboard metric and in the API?

radek_jasinski — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:36:05 GMT

However, this will not address all cases. Problems can be with CPU, memory, etc on the host. You need to reinforce different metrics.

Re: Is "Host Health" available in a dashboard metric and in the API?

crabbylou — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:45:29 GMT

Thanks!!

Re: Is "Host Health" available in a dashboard metric and in the API?

crabbylou — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:50:35 GMT

This seems to be more of an up or down thing, not if any problems were detected per host. Would that be a different counter. In colloquial terms, I want the red or green state that you would see in a host health graph.

Any advice appreciated.