topic Re: Azure Integration in Dynatrace Managed Q&A

Manually select ActiveGate for Azure Integration in Dynatrace Managed

Dimitris_Pin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:26:48 GMT

Hello,

Is there a way,either within Dynatrace, or via a configuration file on the Azure or ActiveGate side, to manually select which ActiveGate will be used for the Azure integration?

Or does Dynatrace automatically choose one of the available ActiveGates that have Azure monitoring enabled?

Thanks

Re: Azure Integration

t_pawlak — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:57:26 GMT

Hi,
IMO There is no dedicated parameter in custom.properties to explicitly select a specific ActiveGate for Azure monitoring. The [azure_monitoring] section only provides the flag azure_monitoring_enabled=true/false.

This means:

If you have multiple ActiveGates with azure_monitoring_enabled=true, Dynatrace will automatically decide which one to use.
If you want to force the usage of a specific ActiveGate, you need to disable the Azure module on all the others (azure_monitoring_enabled=false in their custom.properties). That way, only the selected one will remain available.

For example, on the chosen ActiveGate:

[azure_monitoring] azure_monitoring_enabled = true

on others

[azure_monitoring] azure_monitoring_enabled = false

After making changes, restart the ActiveGate service (systemctl restart dynatracegateway).

Re: Azure Integration

Dimitris_Pin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:48:26 GMT

Hello @t_pawlak ,

Thank you for your answer. We cant disable the azure monitoring in the other Activegates, as we have traffic going through them , and they serve a different purpose.

So, there is no configuration, we have to check in the Activegate's logs, which integration they serve.