topic Process monitoring - cron, NTPD, Syslogd, Xinetd in Real User Monitoring

Process monitoring - cron, NTPD, Syslogd, Xinetd

Lucasvu — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:22:05 GMT

Is Dynatrace have capable to monitor the cron,NTPD,Syslogd,Xinetd Processes,if yes then how to monitor it

Re: Process monitoring - cron, NTPD, Syslogd, Xinetd

dannemca — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:21:21 GMT

Hi @Lucasvu , yes, Dynatrace can monitor them. You will just need to create rules for the Process Group detection, since those are common Linux processes that are not shown as dedicated processes on Dynatrace.
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/process-groups#detection-rules

Once you define the proper rules to create the new Process Groups, you can then enable the Availability Monitoring for those.

Check if this works for you.

Re: Process monitoring - cron, NTPD, Syslogd, Xinetd

Julius_Loman — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:57:15 GMT

@dannemca - you need to use custom process detection rules, not the the detection rules. Yes, the naming is confusing 😁
Anyway, @Lucasvu, if you have OneAgent 1.217 or newer, then you should use the Declarative Process Grouping. It's much more flexible than the old custom process detection rules.