topic Re: Monitoring adaptive load reduction in Open Q&A

Monitoring adaptive load reduction

henk_stobbe — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:07:41 GMT

Hello,

From the documentation I understad that you are warned if ALR kicks in:

You are informed about the reduction of processed data by

An alert message in the Dynatrace web UI: Server [amount] activated adaptive load reduction

A message in the distributed trace list: [amount] more like this

Does this simply mean that whan a service exceeds 1000 request/s this happens. Or in other words can you monitor this number with a threshold of 900 if you want to prevent this from happening?

KR Henk

Re: Monitoring adaptive load reduction

AntonioSousa — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:37:59 GMT

"Adaptive load reduction" and "Adaptive traffic management" are sometimes treated equally, despite being a little bit different. You quoted the following page, which also mixes these two concepts:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/observe-and-explore/purepath-distributed-traces/adaptive-traffic-management/adaptive-traffic-management-managed

If we're talking about a Managed environment, ALR is more adequate. There have been discussions here in the past, and I would suggest the following two threads:

If we're talking SaaS, then this thread might also be interesting:

https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/The-Problems-with-Adaptive-Traffic-Management-Version-2/m-p/180358?search-action-id=26494666330&search-result-uid=180358

Additionally, if talking SaaS, I believe Grail will impact the way traces are stored. but this has not been anounced, to my knowledge.

Re: Monitoring adaptive load reduction

henk_stobbe — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 08:28:20 GMT

Took a long time to aswer (its a little busy)

But thank you,

Henk