https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Custom-alerts-on-JDBC-pool-usage/m-p/302448#M39320 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/76635">@TT</a>&nbsp;</P><P>Dynatrace has built-in OneAgent extensions for the major JDBC pool types (Tomcat, Apache Commons DBCP, WebLogic, WebSphere,etc..), which expose pool metrics via JMX.</P><P>You can create a Metric Event or custom alert based on metrics such as active connections, pool utilization, idle connections, or waiting threads, depending on what is available in your environment.</P><P>Cost: The extensions themselves don't have an additional cost. The consumption depends on your licensing model:</P><P>Classic licensing: metric ingestion consumes DDUs.<BR />Platform licensing (Grail): metric ingestion and retention follow the Grail consumption model.</P><P>In general, the cost scales with the number of monitored pools, hosts, and ingested metrics rather than being a fixed fee.</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Sujit</P> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:30:21 GMT sujit_k_singh 2026-07-27T22:30:21Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Custom-alerts-on-JDBC-pool-usage/m-p/302443#M39319 <P>Can I create&nbsp;Custom alerts on JDBC pool usage? What is the cost associated with it?</P> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:36:37 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Custom-alerts-on-JDBC-pool-usage/m-p/302443#M39319 TT 2026-07-27T21:36:37Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Custom-alerts-on-JDBC-pool-usage/m-p/302448#M39320 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/76635">@TT</a>&nbsp;</P><P>Dynatrace has built-in OneAgent extensions for the major JDBC pool types (Tomcat, Apache Commons DBCP, WebLogic, WebSphere,etc..), which expose pool metrics via JMX.</P><P>You can create a Metric Event or custom alert based on metrics such as active connections, pool utilization, idle connections, or waiting threads, depending on what is available in your environment.</P><P>Cost: The extensions themselves don't have an additional cost. The consumption depends on your licensing model:</P><P>Classic licensing: metric ingestion consumes DDUs.<BR />Platform licensing (Grail): metric ingestion and retention follow the Grail consumption model.</P><P>In general, the cost scales with the number of monitored pools, hosts, and ingested metrics rather than being a fixed fee.</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Sujit</P> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:30:21 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Custom-alerts-on-JDBC-pool-usage/m-p/302448#M39320 sujit_k_singh 2026-07-27T22:30:21Z