topic Re: Agentless Monitoring in Open Q&A

Agentless Monitoring

MaxHeeren — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:42:39 GMT

Hello,

is it possible to monitor my application without the OA? So agentless? Not just RUM, but infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring etc.?

Greetings,

Max

Re: Agentless Monitoring

Taylor-Sanchez — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:08:53 GMT

Hi @MaxHeeren ,

As far as I know, the only way that you can do agent-less monitoring of your applications is the method your described for RUM here:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform-modules/digital-experience/web-applications/initial-setup/set-up-agentless-real-user-monitoring

In all other instances, the OA is necessary to inject the code-modules needed for monitoring. This allows for Dynatrace to be able to get the metrics for your analysis.

Thanks,

Taylor Sanchez

Re: Agentless Monitoring

Taylor-Sanchez — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:09:29 GMT

In addition, and follow up question - is there a reason you were asking of this possibility? Are there potential restrictions as to why you may not want to monitor with the agent?

Re: Agentless Monitoring

Islam_Zedan — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 06:45:58 GMT

Hi @MaxHeeren

In addition to agentless RUM, you can get some metrics related to infra using the remote monitoring extensions like the below one. but the only way to get traces and code-level visibility is the OA.

https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/remote-unix-monitoring-20

Thanks,

Islam

Re: Agentless Monitoring

MaxHeeren — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:57:32 GMT

Hello @Taylor-Sanchez

ah ok! Yes, one of the servers doesn't meet the requirements for the OA.

So for that, the only possible way would be the one describes in agentless RUM?

In order to reach the data, that the OA is collecting automatically, you would need to do a lot of manual instrumentation, correct?

Re: Agentless Monitoring

MaxHeeren — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:58:14 GMT

Hi @Islam_Zedan

that helps. Thank you!

Traces can't be done even with manual instrumentation?

Re: Agentless Monitoring

Islam_Zedan — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 07:59:56 GMT

You will need to put some libraries in the host itself and call it from the process startup script, which is almost similar to Oneagent installation.