topic Re: Process crash detection event/alert in Open Q&A

Set Up Alerts for Process Crash Detection Events in Dynatrace

henk_stobbe — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:23:47 GMT

Summary: This thread describes how process crash detection works in Dynatrace and how to configure alerting for such events. It explains what qualifies as a crash and where the event appears.

Hello,

Is there a way in Dynatrace to get an alert when a process crashes ( or crashes multiple times in a row)

What I can see is that you can monitor the number of processes in a PG, etc. But that is not what I am looking for.

The info is available in DT:

I have seen that events can be extracted with the "Events API", so more general the question is

How to use events as metrics in Dynatrace?

(Thx Henri)

KR Henk

Re: Process crash detection event/alert

Babar_Qayyum — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:26:27 GMT

Hello @henk_stobbe

I have discussed somehow the same requirement in the trail thread.

https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Product-ideas/Event-level-severity-rules-Problem-send-delay-in-minutes/idc-p/208441#M36433

Regards,

Babar

Re: Process crash detection event/alert

henk_stobbe — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:54:51 GMT

Hi Babar,

Missed that one, thanks for the link!

KR Henk