topic Binding ActiveGate Extension to a OneAgent Process in Extensions

Binding ActiveGate Extension to a OneAgent Process

serhat_balik — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 21:40:44 GMT

I am not sure if the wording of the topic title is correct, but what I did was to install a MySQL ActiveGate Extension to get additional data about MySQL database, which is also monitored natively by OneAgent.

From what I see, these are not linked in Smartscape, and DavisAI will not correlate their data and give a root cause. Is there a way to group these from the UI? I thought about Process Grouping, but I couldn't make sense of the settings.

Re: Binding ActiveGate Extension to a OneAgent Process

Mike_L — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:31:51 GMT

Hi, this is currently not possible. With the next extension framework it will be possible to send data from remote extensions to existing entities. More information here: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/extend-dynatrace-automation-and-ai-capabilities-more-easily-than-ever/

Mike

Re: Binding ActiveGate Extension to a OneAgent Process

Radu — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:18:23 GMT

Hi Serhat,

As Mike has mentioned currently the extension framework does not allow for this. Short of waiting for Extensions 2.0 framework to become available for custom extensions, your only other option is to develop the extension as a OneAgent extension instead of an ActiveGate one.

Since OneAgent extensions are deployed at the OneAgent location, they can also be attached to processes running on that host. This means, the additional metrics and events can be pushed to your existing MySQL process. This section of the Python reference describes attaching the OneAgent extension instance to specific processes.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Radu