topic Does the tool support agentless and agent-based monitoring for SAN environments? in Start with Dynatrace https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Start-with-Dynatrace/Does-the-tool-support-agentless-and-agent-based-monitoring-for/m-p/280569#M1292 <P>What types of SAN devices and vendors are supported by Dynatrace’s agentless monitoring via Extensions v2?</P> Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:06:03 GMT GosiaMurawska 2025-07-02T09:06:03Z Does the tool support agentless and agent-based monitoring for SAN environments? https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Start-with-Dynatrace/Does-the-tool-support-agentless-and-agent-based-monitoring-for/m-p/280569#M1292 <P>What types of SAN devices and vendors are supported by Dynatrace’s agentless monitoring via Extensions v2?</P> Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:06:03 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Start-with-Dynatrace/Does-the-tool-support-agentless-and-agent-based-monitoring-for/m-p/280569#M1292 GosiaMurawska 2025-07-02T09:06:03Z Re: Does the tool support agentless and agent-based monitoring for SAN environments? https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Start-with-Dynatrace/Does-the-tool-support-agentless-and-agent-based-monitoring-for/m-p/280570#M1293 <P class=""><FONT face="lucida sans unicode,lucida sans"><SPAN>Yes. Dynatrace supports both:</SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI><FONT face="lucida sans unicode,lucida sans"><SPAN><STRONG>Agent-based monitoring:</STRONG>&nbsp;By installing&nbsp;<STRONG>OneAgent</STRONG>&nbsp;on servers or virtual machines that interact with SAN devices, Dynatrace captures disk-level metrics like IOPS, throughput, and latency. While it doesn’t run directly on SAN hardware, it can monitor the performance impact from the system’s perspective.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI><FONT face="lucida sans unicode,lucida sans"><SPAN><STRONG>Agentless monitoring:</STRONG>&nbsp;For true SAN visibility, Dynatrace provides&nbsp;<STRONG>agentless integration</STRONG>&nbsp;using&nbsp;<STRONG>Extensions v2</STRONG>. These extensions can query SAN devices via&nbsp;<STRONG>SNMP</STRONG>,&nbsp;<STRONG>REST APIs</STRONG>, or&nbsp;<STRONG>vendor CLIs</STRONG>&nbsp;to ingest detailed storage metrics into the Dynatrace platform without deploying agents on the SAN hardware.</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL> Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:06:42 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Start-with-Dynatrace/Does-the-tool-support-agentless-and-agent-based-monitoring-for/m-p/280570#M1293 theharithsa 2025-07-02T09:06:42Z