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Monitor Graceful Shutdown Events in Dynatrace

AntonPineiro — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:41:14 GMT

Summary: This post explains whether Dynatrace captures graceful shutdown events and what data is available when a service terminates. It describes relevant logs, process signals, and where to look for shutdown indicators.

Hi,

Are we getting a shutdown event in a graceful shutdown? I would like to know where I can find that event, it might be a host view, a Grail table, whatever... Do we have a way to find those events?

That shutdown event might trigger a workflow. Do you have any idea about this? Is that possible?

Thank you!

Best regards

Re: Graceful shutdown event?

Yosi_Neuman — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:45:49 GMT

Hi @AntonPineiro

Wonder if pulling the last value of builtin:host.availability.state:splitBy("availability.state") can work for you?

HTH

Yos

Re: Graceful shutdown event?

Fin_Ubels — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:33:56 GMT

Hey Anton, just tested it out in my environment, the metric mentioned above can be used as seen here:

You could script over the metric to ingest the changes as events but given the above requirements it would probably be easier to have the workflow run every minute and just check the metric. Unfortunately not as efficient as listening for events.

As for them as events, they were unique to my environment sorry, I had forgotten.

Re: Graceful shutdown event?

AntonPineiro — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:53:55 GMT

Hi,

Thank you!

I am trying to replicate those queries but I cannot find those events. I can see shutdown status in metric:

But events are empty:

Do you have some idea about that? Have you done some tenant configuration?

Best regards

Re: Graceful shutdown event?

AntonPineiro — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:56:04 GMT

Hi Yos,

Thank you for your message!

I would like more an event to trigger some action immediately. It is more in relation to @Fin_Ubels answer.

Best regards

Re: Graceful shutdown event?

Fin_Ubels — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:35:49 GMT

Hey Anton, sorry I had forgotten that those events were unique to the environment I was using so they did not apply generally. Seems out of the box that the best solution is the metric. Sorry for any confusion!

Re: Graceful shutdown event?

Fin_Ubels — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:20:28 GMT

Hey @AntonPineiro it looks like this might be coming in future agent releases according to these changelogs https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/release-notes-oneagent-sprint-301#host-availability-events-on-host-shutdown-and-reboot. Not sure if this will resolve the issues you have but keep an eye out for this when it lands to see.