topic Re: Local self monitoring Capabilities in Dynatrace Managed Q&A

Local self monitoring Capabilities

AhmedKhaled_94 — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:53:57 GMT

Hello Everyone,

A couple of weeks ago we had a problem with the elasticsearch drive filling up on one node, which caused the dynatrace cluster to under perform and eventually go down.

We are looking into a solutions to have our own drives/cluster nodes/activegates monitored using dynatrace itself and found the local self monitoring solution, however, looking around the community and the documentation I couldn't find enough information. We have 3 main requirements and then the rest are pretty much good to have.

1. Does local self monitoring allow for monitoring of the cluster node drives (elasticsearch/casandra etc)

2. Does the local self monitoring allow for monitoring of the activegates, can I get notifications if one of the activegates goes down?

3. Can the alerts from the local self-environment be received as problems on my production environment.

Note: I am not able to switch it on yet unfortunately, since it is a customer's instance, and they would like more information before going that way.

Thank you,

Ahmed Khaled

Re: Local self monitoring Capabilities

AntonPineiro — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:10:37 GMT

Hi,

You have here self-monitoring metrics available.

Best regards

Re: Local self monitoring Capabilities

AhmedKhaled_94 — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:17:55 GMT

Hello,

So the 41 metrics that I find when typing dsfm in the metrics section, are the only self-monitoring capabilities available?

Re: Local self monitoring Capabilities

PacoPorro — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:06:01 GMT

Right.
Here you have the link for managed
https://docs.dynatrace.com/managed/observe-and-explore/metrics/self-monitoring-metrics

Re: Local self monitoring Capabilities

Yosi_Neuman — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:17:46 GMT

Hi @AhmedKhaled_94

For Cassandra and Elasticsearch healthcheck we always go to this old thread

If you want this information to show up as a metric with in dynatrace you will need to automate the running of the utilities on a cluster node, save the information to files on a directory that one of your AG can reach and build an extension that will convert the status to a metric .....

HTH

Yos