topic Re: OneAgent and ActiveGate ratio in Open Q&A

OneAgent and ActiveGate ratio

MAkimov — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:18:50 GMT

Hello

How much agent can bundles one Active Gate?

What is recomended max limit (this information is not in the documentation)

Re: How much agent can bundles one Active Gate

Babar_Qayyum — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:05:04 GMT

ActiveGate is a component that can help you reduce the number of outgoing connections and traffic. Therefore, if you plan to install more than 100 OneAgents or if you want to manage large-scale Dynatrace deployments in general, you should consider installing at least one ActiveGate. For 1,000 OneAgents, installing an ActiveGate is highly recommended. You don’t need to install all ActiveGates in advance—you can add additional ActiveGates at any time. If you install multiple ActiveGates in the same environment, your OneAgents and ActiveGates will configure themselves automatically to achieve optimal load balancing.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/deploy-dyna...

Regards,

Babar

Re: How much agent can bundles one Active Gate

MAkimov — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:10:12 GMT

Hello

I have already seen Doc

My question - How much Agent can bundles to One Active Gate

If I have 1100 agent than i will need 2 Active gate or one ?

Re: How much agent can bundles one Active Gate

Babar_Qayyum — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:29:51 GMT

Hello @Mikhail A.

Basically, this is an optional but recommended component because of the characteristics, so for 1,100 you should have 2 ActiveGate instances or even you can have more.

As per the documentation, for 100 OneAgetns you should consider an ActiveGate in your environment but with 1000 OneAgents must have an ActiveGate.

e.g. more than 100 OneAgents or if you want to manage large-scale Dynatrace deployments in general, you should consider installing at least one ActiveGate.
but for 1,000 OneAgents, installing an ActiveGate is highly recommended.

Regards,

Babar

Re: How much agent can bundles one Active Gate

Gideon_Kago — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:09:18 GMT

If I have 3000 , Servers what is the recommended number of Active gates ?

Re: How much agent can bundles one Active Gate

Gideon_Kago — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 08:50:00 GMT

Any documentation on dimensioning on Active gate and one agent.

Re: How much agent can bundles one Active Gate

sia_h — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:23:02 GMT

Hi,

Please have a look at the sizing documentation for Linux ActiveGates and Windows ActiveGates. I also recommend to take in consideration high availability and fail-over (i.e. have at least two ActiveGates per zone).

We also have documentation for the sizing of your disks for a OneAgent on Windows or Linux. For information on memory consumption by the OneAgent have a look here.

Sia

Re: OneAgent and ActiveGate ratio

KCT — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:55:05 GMT

Hello, is there any recommendation number of Active gates to handle the agents influenced by factors like hardware specifications, network conditions, and the specific monitoring tasks it undertakes? Eg 8 cores cpu and 16 memory running Windows Server 2022.

Also find this link https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/deploy-dynatrace/activegate/basic-concepts/when-do-i-need-to-install-an-activegate/?_gl=1*9s41bl*_ga*NjA4MjMxMTE1LjE3MjYxMDg4NzE.*_ga_1MEMV02JXV*MTc0NTM5NDUxOC4xMi4xLjE3NDUzOTQ3MTguMC4wLjA.*_gcl_au*MTc2NTE2NjEyMy4xNzQ1MzgwNjAz broken

Re: OneAgent and ActiveGate ratio

sia_h — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:00:44 GMT

There’s no significant difference in this case. If you're using the Environment ActiveGate exclusively for OneAgent routing, the size or specifications of the servers monitored by OneAgent have minimal impact on the capacity required for ActiveGates. You can refer to the link below for guidance on recommended ActiveGate VM sizing and the number of OneAgents it can support:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/activegate-requirements-windows#x86-64-architecture