topic Re: Disable Monitoring in Open Q&A

Disable Monitoring

gilles_portier — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:46:39 GMT

Hi,

What does exactly do the "Disable Monitoring" feature :

- at the host level ?

- at the process level ?

Here it is written we have to restart the process (https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/installation) but do we have to reboot the host if we disable monitoring at that level ?

Thanks

Re: Disable Monitoring

roman_spitzbart — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:43:53 GMT

Disabling at the host level will stop all monitoring - at a process level just code level insights for that process. In general if enabling monitoring required a restart of the process, so will disabling.

Hosts do not have to be rebooted for install so you can also remove the agents w/o reboot.

Re: Disable Monitoring

Karolina_Linda — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:50:07 GMT

Fixed the doc link 😉

Re: Disable Monitoring

luc_douwen — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:49:06 GMT

An extra remark: when disabling monitoring it took 3 hours before the 'used licenses quota' got changed. But we did not have to reboot or restart processes.

We were resetting our trial license (#100) to our eternal license (#50), so we needed to be sure we were effectively using less than 50 licenses. The license change was done without problems.

Re: Disable Monitoring

larry_roberts — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:00:34 GMT

Good call out. I too have seen that delay in the adjustments to license readings. I wish it was a bit faster.

Re: Disable Monitoring

larry_roberts — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:01:55 GMT

I do think the toggles could be titled better. If you are brand new to Dynatrace, it can be confusing to see "Disable Monitoring". I would prefer to see "Disable RUM", etc.