topic Re: Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours? in Open Q&A

Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours?

kohei-saito — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:06:40 GMT

Hi,

Our customer wants to activate host unit hour license only on business days from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours? I suppose that enabling/disabling of Host Monitoring can activate/deactivate license.

If it is possible, how do we can do that?

Best Regards,

Kohei

Re: Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours?

gerald_ — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 07:41:55 GMT

Hello @Kohei S.,

when you disable monitoring for a particular host it does not get billed. I'm not aware of a feature to do this automatically, e.g. via API though.

Gerald

Re: Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours?

kohei-saito — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:25:25 GMT

Hi @Gerald H.,

Thank you for your reply!

Thanks to your comment, I'm sure that the consumption of host unit hour license is related to whether the host is monitored or not.

However, what I want to know most here is how we can automatically switch monitoring...;)

Does anybody know that...?

For example, if dynatrace has any APIs to do this or there is another way, please tell me that way.

Thanks,

Kohei

Re: Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours?

gerald_ — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 09:47:36 GMT

Hi @Kohei S.

We unfortunately to not have an API to enable or disable monitoring of hosts.

Gerald

Re: Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours?

Radoslaw_Szulgo — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:51:41 GMT

For Dynatrace SaaS it's currently impossible to do it via API. Manually or using UI automation.

For Dynatrace Managed you could set the Environment's host units limit to 0 using internal REST API. Or automate via UI automation scripts. To get details on REST API please open a support ticket so we can assist with configuration.

Re: Is it possible to activate/deactivate automatically host unit hour license during limited hours?

jannick_de-turc — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:34:39 GMT

Meanwhile, is this already possible in a SaaS solution, the automatically enable/disable dynatrace monitoring for a specific hostgroup during business hours (for example 8:00 AM - 06:00 PM CEST)