topic Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed in Extensions

SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

leonerdo037 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:33:23 GMT

Hi Everyone,

We are using the Dynatrace Managed version to monitor our cloud and on-premise environment. We would like to know if there are options to monitor SNMP based devices.

We saw the plug-in being available with Appmon but we would like to know if its possible without Appmon.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

Julius_Loman — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:30:12 GMT

There is nothing available at the moment. But you could write Oneagent plugin that will collect data using SNMP. Another option is to collect the data by yourself and push it using API. What is your use case?

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

leonerdo037 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:57:48 GMT

We are in the early stages of dynatrace implementation and we just wanted to know the features available in different iterations of the suite. Thank you for the answer; it helps.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

ljimenez — Wed, 16 May 2018 00:41:16 GMT

Is any update to know if the last release of dynatrace Managed or SaaS has support to read traps SNMP v2 and v3 ???

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

Julius_Loman — Wed, 16 May 2018 06:28:22 GMT

No support. I don't think this is on the roadmap at all.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

j_bouland — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:59:18 GMT

Bad news AppMon is not dead !!!

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

nj_njoku — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:24:39 GMT

Hi,

Please take a look at the github page below for a script you can use to feed this data into Dynatrace. Please let me know if this helps.

https://github.com/Dynatrace/dynatrace-api/tree/master/snmp

Thanks

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

ganesh_sambanda — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:49:27 GMT

Team,

Is there any roadmap to enable SNMP monitoring on Dynatrace managed? This is one of the key capabilities to enable end to end monitoring from App --> hardware level. Please confirm..

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

brayden_neale — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:34:06 GMT

Hi Leo,

With the ActiveGate RemoteAgent extension framework we can now monitor any remote technology that exposes an interface.

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

It is important to note that custom extensions such as this (or custom data through the Dynatrace API) will consume 'Custom Metric' licensing.

In the case of SNMP I have developed an extension for basic device health monitoring (UNOFFICIAL).
https://github.com/BraydenNeale/Dynatrace-SNMP

This will provide metrics for any device listening on SNMP v2/3 and supporting HOST-RESOURCES-MIB and/or IF-MIB. It also adds properties collected from SNMPv2-MIB such as sysuptime and sysdescr.

HOST-RESOURCES-MIB

CPU utilisation
Memory utilisation
Disk Utilisation

IF-MIB (Per Interface)

Network Traffic - Incoming/Outgoing
Network packets - Incoming/Outgoing
Errors - Incoming/Outgoing
Discarded packets - Incoming/Outgoing

You could clone and adapt this to be more device specific if additional device metrics are required.

Thanks,

Brayden

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

anish_patel — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:24:45 GMT

really the one agent should probably just do this itself, but alas they dont so there are many host metrics that are not in the system.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

suresh230591 — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 07:17:17 GMT

Hi,

Do Dynatrace have any plan for box plugin for SNMP monitoring? Can someone from DT confirm on this?

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

Julius_Loman — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:33:42 GMT

@Suresh K. - see the Brayden's answer above. There is no "built-in" support and probably never will be.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

suresh230591 — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:36:18 GMT

Thanks Julius

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

skanchalwar2 — Wed, 20 May 2020 10:51:59 GMT

Can I use it to monitor vCenter, ESXi?

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

Julius_Loman — Wed, 20 May 2020 12:14:38 GMT

Dynatrace already has integration for vCenter:
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/cloud-platforms/vmware/

If you have Dynatrace Managed you don't need anything. If you have Dynatrace SaaS you just need an Environment ActiveGate.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

skanchalwar2 — Wed, 27 May 2020 11:53:21 GMT

Thanks Julius for your reply. But we wan't to monitor via SNMP, as it is a project requirement.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

skanchalwar2 — Wed, 27 May 2020 11:54:55 GMT

Hi Brayden

I'm trying to configure this plugin after following all the installation steps, but getting below error while trying to add an endpoint. Please help.

Error(Cannot load native module 'Cryptodome.Cipher._raw_ecb': Trying '_raw_ecb.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so': cannot load library '/opt/dynatrace/Security-Gateway/remotepluginmodule/plugin_deployment/custom.remote.python.snmp-base/Cryptodome/Util/../Cipher/_r)

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

skanchalwar2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:26:56 GMT

Hi @Brayden N. We need this badly. Can you pls check the error I'm getting & help resolve the issue?

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

brayden_neale — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 06:45:08 GMT

Hi Sandeep,

Apologies, I've only just seen this message.
Could you raise a Github issue for this, with details at:
https://github.com/BraydenNeale/DT-SNMP/issues

Looks like some issue with the cipher compatibility.

Re: SNMP Monitoring using Dynatrace Managed

juan_antonio_co — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 11:03:04 GMT

Hi, can the plugin provided by @Brayden N. be used to collect metrics from Flex Manager/Dell Server manager? The Dynatrace partner who is managing my environment is saying that can't be used, but the GitHub page where the plugin is stored says "You can fork and adapt this to poll for any SNMP exposed metrics"