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Problem with metric event

radek_jasinski — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 17:59:28 GMT

Hi,

In one of my environments, I need to send an alert when metrics are not sent from Azure to Dynatrace. I have a basic integration with Azure configured and am collecting information about the VMs (CPU, memory, disk). Unfortunately, no metrics are available to inform me, for example, that a VM has been shut down or restarted. We have prepared a metrics event that has the "Alert in missing data" option enabled.

builtin:cloud.azure.vm.cpuUsage:filter(and(not(in("dt.entity.azure_vms,entitySelector("type(azure_vm),tag(~"(Azure)V:XXXX~")"))))):splitBy("dt.entity.azure_vm")))

Of course, the threshold is 101% CPU utilisation so that it does not report other deviations.

The preview shows correct operation. Unfortunately when running in a production environment the alerts are reported randomly and close a minute later. This happens for several vm's at the same time. The time windows are set as shown in the screenshot:

Radek

Re: Problem with metric event

Mizső — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:20:37 GMT

Hi @radek_jasinski,

Have you tried this metric for host restart? builtin:host.uptime

I hope it helps.

Best regards,

Mizső

Re: Problem with metric event

radek_jasinski — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:54:58 GMT

Hi @Mizső

I haven't tried it. I understand that this metric works for VM's in Azure?

Re: Problem with metric event

radek_jasinski — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 07:37:43 GMT

Unfortunately, this metric is not available in my configuration. I don't have OA installed on my hosts.

Re: Problem with metric event

Mizső — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 07:53:50 GMT

Hi @radek_jasinski,

Sorry I missed this information.

Best regards,

Mizső

Re: Problem with metric event

radek_jasinski — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 09:29:40 GMT

I'm reporting the problem to support - I'll let you know if I find out anything.

Re: Problem with metric event

radek_jasinski — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:24:00 GMT

On the recommendation of support we have increased the value for violating samples to 24 and for the moment this has helped:)