topic Re: Can Environmental Active Gate and Dynatrace Managed runs in the same machine? in Dynatrace Managed Q&A

Can Environmental ActiveGate and Dynatrace Managed run on the same machine?

waikeat_chan — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:15:52 GMT

Anyone has done this before?

Re: Can Environmental Active Gate and Dynatrace Managed runs in the same machine?

skrystosik — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:28:59 GMT

No, at least it’s not recommended. Documentation said that it should be external machine. This is because many reasons,. First it is optional component. You don’t need it always (it’s not the same as collector in Appmon).

If you want to have one you can use it for:

Proxy from dmz agents, it simplifies network rules between server and agents
Compressing traffic (up to 70%)
Using AG plugins for monitoring for example network devices and many more
Storing memory dumps

Such functionalities has their benefits where are separated from main server.Sebastian

Re: Can Environmental Active Gate and Dynatrace Managed runs in the same machine?

Julius_Loman — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:18:41 GMT

No this is not possible. Installer will refuse to install the ActiveGate if cluster node is installed on the host.

Actually, there is an ActiveGate running on each cluster node, but you don't have much control over it (you cannot use it for memory dumps).

Re: Can Environmental Active Gate and Dynatrace Managed runs in the same machine?

waikeat_chan — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:16:17 GMT

Can I use it for Synthetic Monitoring? I am not seeing such an option there.

Re: Can Environmental Active Gate and Dynatrace Managed runs in the same machine?

skrystosik — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:18:24 GMT

No you need external one.