topic Best practices to upgrade the ActiveGate extensions without interrupting the monitoring in Extensions

Best practices to upgrade the ActiveGate extensions without interrupting the monitoring

Babar_Qayyum — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:40:56 GMT

Dear All,

What are the best practices to upgrade the ActiveGate extensions without interrupting the monitoring?

Regards,

Babar

Re: Best practices to upgrade the ActiveGate extensions without interrupting the monitoring

AntonioSousa — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 23:08:40 GMT

@Babar_Qayyum,

This is a very interesting question! In fact, there are several similar cases, regarding introducing new endpoints/configurations/ etc, eg.: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Restart-remotepluginmodule-faster/m-p/210473

And it really depends on the extensions themselves. In the extensions I develop, I tend to preserve state in sqlite database, because no one knows when the next restart will be. But I frequently loose one minute data...

So, since extensions run each minute, my trick is to try to do it around second 15, and in this case, that minute gets processed, and I typically only loose one minute of data....

But would be willing to know more tricks around this...

Re: Best practices to upgrade the ActiveGate extensions without interrupting the monitoring

Babar_Qayyum — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 02:41:24 GMT

Hello @AntonioSousa

Thank you for your comments and tricks. Agree, we should have a way to upgrade the extensions without interruptions.

Regards,

Babar

Re: Best practices to upgrade the ActiveGate extensions without interrupting the monitoring

AntonioSousa — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:59:30 GMT

I would also say that from empirical analysis, when we change an extension v1 configuration, it happens too. I even believe other extensions are impacted too, but not absolutely sure.