topic AntiVirus exclusion on Dynatrace Managed servers in Dynatrace Managed Q&A

AntiVirus exclusion on Dynatrace Managed servers

alaaka — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 06:26:15 GMT

Hi,

Do we have a list of paths or executables that are required/recommended to be excluded from Antivirus scanning? Appreciate sharing the same from Dynatrace servers (cluster nodes & AGs) and for servers having OneAgent installed on (Windows/Linux)

Thanks..

Re: AntiVirus exclusion on Dynatrace Managed servers

Radoslaw_Szulgo — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:33:38 GMT

Here you can find all folders we use in Dynatrace Managed :

Managed hardware requirements

and here for Environment / Cluster ActiveGates:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/activegate-default-settings-linux#directories

However, Antivirus scanning is usually CPU/disk IOPS heavy. So if you really must use it, at best, make sure to scan other storage devices mounted to the system than those that are used by Dynatrace Managed. Otherwise, the scan might cause performance degradation even by scanning a different folder if it's on the same volume/device.

Re: AntiVirus exclusion on Dynatrace Managed servers

ben_wrightson — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:41:12 GMT

I would recommend to exclude the Cassandra and ElasticSearch datastore at the very least.