topic Re: Uptime monitoring in Open Q&A

Set Up Uptime Monitoring with Dynatrace Synthetic and Availability Checks

ssamraj — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:29:00 GMT

Summary: This thread explains how to configure Dynatrace synthetic monitor-based uptime monitoring. It describes alerting setup and best practices for tracking service availability.

Hi Team,

Is it feasible to monitor system uptime on Windows servers using DT?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Uptime monitoring

dannemca — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 21:03:51 GMT

Unfortunately, no.

You can rely on these others topics for reference:

https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dashboarding/Is-there-anyway-to-chart-uptime-of-a-server-in-Dynatrace/m-p/121549#M1201

https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Synthetic-Monitoring/Setting-up-uptime-monitoring/m-p/20987#M1122

You can use some custom metric ingestion to make it happen as well.

Re: Uptime monitoring

ssamraj — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:44:31 GMT

Looks like from the version 1.263, we're able to get this metrics "uptime" on all servers (AIX, Windows and Linux)... no need to take the complex route of implementing this monitor..

Re: Uptime monitoring

dannemca — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:44:02 GMT

Yep, the builtin:host.uptime. https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/observe-and-explore/metrics/built-in-metrics#other-infrastructure-metrics