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SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

kirill_stepanov — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:33:06 GMT

Hello,

I have a network device that I would like to monitor using the SNMP protocol via Dynatrace Managed. What ways do you know to do it?
I found an example script on Github that selects properties and scalar metrics from a configured network device and sends them to Dynatrace

https://github.com/Dynatrace/dynatrace-api/tree/master/snmp

Has anyone tried to do this and what was the result?
If so, where and how is the information displayed in Dynatrace?

Thanks

Re: SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

skrystosik — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:44:47 GMT

I think for this purpose you need to create Custom Network Device:

https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/register-custo...

and push custom metrics via API:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/extend-dyna...

Sebastian

Re: SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

brayden_neale — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:53:23 GMT

Hi Kiril,

Check my answer to this at:
SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

I have developed a generic SNMP monitoring extension that you could use or adapt for this.
The information is displayed under - Technologies -> SNMP -> Device group -> Device name, but you can also use this data in custom charts.

Thanks,
Brayden

Re: SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

imoskovko1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:05:49 GMT

Just to show off 🙂

SNMP ---> Perl script ---> DT Server timeseries API

Re: SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

kirill_stepanov — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:29:35 GMT

Thank you very much )

Re: SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

Dant3 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:52:53 GMT

Hey @Brayden N. Holy cow your plugin is awesome.

With your kwnoledge, do you think it could be possible to check the Devices(IP's) to wich a Router is connected and create other devices as touchpoints? Kinda like create a smartscape of network devices...

Re: SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

vladislav_samoy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:33:17 GMT

Awesome. Was trying to do the same, but you have done it.

Thanks a lot

Re: SNMP monitoring in Dynatrace Managed

brayden_neale — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:52:00 GMT

Thanks Dante,

I'm not sure on how to trace router connections in this way.
Dynatrace does have an API to add custom device endpoints though. So If you could somehow walk these connections, then you could add each device.