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vCenter monitoring events and problem detection

jeff_rowell — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:19:13 GMT

I'm looking into the capabilities of Dynatrace Managed for monitoring of vCenter, and although I can find some good documentations of what metrics will appear in the user interface I have not been able to locate any information concerning the types of events / problems that Dynatrace would potentially raise (i.e., what alerts could be raised). Is this information documented anywhere? Note that I am specifically interested in knowing whether Dynatrace would raise events/problems for vCenter issues and also for any VMs (without OneAgents deployed).

Re: vCenter monitoring events and problem detection?

wolfgang_beer — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:41:15 GMT

Hi,

Here is an overview of important events that are raised by Dynatrace, it also contains some event types coming from vCenter, e.g.: VM motion event.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/monitor/pro...

Best

Wolfgang

Re: vCenter monitoring events and problem detection?

pahofmann — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:46:05 GMT

Probelms on an infrastructure level will be raised for your ESXI hosts, for example for CPU saturation, disk latency,...

With the integratoin it can also detect VM Migratoins as a potential Root Cause for Problems.

Problems for VMs without an OneAgent will also be raised. Here is an example for a Problem with CPU Satuarion of VM not instrumented with a One Agent:

Re: vCenter monitoring events and problem detection?

steve_caron — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:04:17 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Adding to the previous answers, you can also find the type of VMWare-related problems automatically detected by the Anomaly Detection engine in the Settings->Anomaly Detection->Infrastructure->VMWare

Steve