topic Re: Incoming/outgoing connections on Host Page in Open Q&A

Incoming/outgoing connections on Host Page

hqlee — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:58:09 GMT

How does Dynatrace identify the ingoing and outgoing connections for Host? Is it based on purepath data?

RazTN7 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:53:01 GMT

Hello @hqlee ,

To put it correctly. Incoming and outgoing connection is based upon process connection interlink.

Say if process A calls process B then host1 which are running on process A will show as incoming connection host2.

click on any host --> click on ... 3 dot --> click on analyze process connection

Cheers!

hqlee — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 06:45:56 GMT

I see, Thanks for assisting, RN!

ben_wrightson — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:20:22 GMT

To explain this a bit further:

These connections are detected on the network layer (incoming & outgoing TCP connections). PurePath data will be a subset of these connections.

Ohmus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:32:53 GMT

Are these connections only captured if the other system has a Dynatrace agent installed?