topic Re: Is it possible to count the number of files in a folder? in Extensions

Is it possible to count the number of files in a folder?

anapaulasalas — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:53:51 GMT

Hello

In windows, I have a service that creates and deletes files as requests are being started/finalized inside a folder. When the number of files is too high it starts to slow down all of the services related. I want to create a metric that counts this number and create a problem when it reaches certain number of files.

Is there an extension or a way to do this in Dynatrace?

Thanks

Re: Is it possible to count the number of files in a folder?

marco_irmer — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:30:39 GMT

I believe the Filesystem monitoring extension can do this.

Re: Is it possible to count the number of files in a folder?

adam_gardner — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:51:39 GMT

Another option is to use the OpenTelemetry collector filestats receiver - then send the metrics to Dynatrace