topic Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace in Extensions

Prometheus metrics to Dynatrace

Dant3 — Thu, 18 May 2023 15:24:52 GMT

Hi!

I was wondering if anyone try to push prometheus metrics to Dynatrace, via plugin (ActiveGate/OneAgent) or via custom metrics cron (or something). And if you hit any block in doing so.

Thanks!

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

skrystosik — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:43:41 GMT

If you are able to convert those metrics to format readable for Dynatrace (for example as custom network device with custom metrics via api) there will be no problem with such operation. But you have to remember that for plug-in and api approach you will need free custom metrics in your license. Here you have my question about how this is calculated.

https://community.dynatrace.com/questions/219210/question-about-custom-metrics-quota-calculation.html

Sebastian

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

Julius_Loman — Mon, 27 May 2019 12:36:17 GMT

As far as I know, there is an extension in the works which will enable you to collect Prometheus metrics and store them in Dynatrace as custom metrics.

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

larry_roberts — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:48:38 GMT

That would be a plus!

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

thanes_bala — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:09:23 GMT

@Julius L.

Any status update on the extension to collect Prometheus metrics?

Thanks

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

Julius_Loman — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:37:13 GMT

@Thanes B. - sorry, I have no idea.
@Jakub M. or @Michael L. - any updates on the prometheus metrics plugin?

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

vijay_bujula — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:22:10 GMT

Any update or pointers on this is appreciated. I am trying to send Concourse metrics to Prometheus and then onto to Dynatrace as custom metrics. We were able send Concourse metrics out of the box to Datadog but, have to through lot of hoops to send the same to DT.

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

Julius_Loman — Wed, 15 May 2024 20:15:07 GMT

At the moment, you still need to write a OneAgent or ActiveGate plugin to pull metrics from an exporter and send it to Dynatrace. ~~It requires a little bit o Python knowledge, but it's simple.~~
If you have OneAgent running on the host where the entity is being monitored and where the exporter is located - you should go with OneAgent plugin. If it's some kind of a remote host/device, you might want to write an ActiveGate plugin.

~~Also - if this fits your use case, you can also push metrics via API to Dynatrace.~~

In 2024 - there are several options:

If it is a Prometheus exporter running in Kubernetes recommended way is https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/monitor-prometheus-metrics - scrape the metrics using the ActiveGate running in Kubernetes
If it's not running in Kubernetes, - check if there is an extension for you technology already in Dynatrace HUB - https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/ . If there is no such an extension, the recommended way is to create your own extension 2.0 scraping the metrics.
In both cases above you can also use OpenTelemetry collector - (Dynatrace version) to scrape the metrics - https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/otel-collector-cases-prometheus

Re: Prometheus Metrics to Dynatrace

Dino — Thu, 19 May 2022 14:27:18 GMT

Hello,

I want to retrieve the prometheus metrics (OpenMetric format) in dynatrace through a yaml file.

could someone help me or provide me an editable template please.