https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Synthetic-Monitoring/What-are-NAM-advantages-over-EF1-0-extensions/m-p/266610#M2926 <P>What are the most important benefits of NAM?</P> Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:02:56 GMT GosiaMurawska 2025-01-03T12:02:56Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Synthetic-Monitoring/What-are-NAM-advantages-over-EF1-0-extensions/m-p/266610#M2926 <P>What are the most important benefits of NAM?</P> Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:02:56 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Synthetic-Monitoring/What-are-NAM-advantages-over-EF1-0-extensions/m-p/266610#M2926 GosiaMurawska 2025-01-03T12:02:56Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Synthetic-Monitoring/What-are-NAM-advantages-over-EF1-0-extensions/m-p/266611#M2927 <P>I could think of several functional and the most important advantages:</P> <UL> <LI>Simplified management, with a single test covering multiple hosts/devices (<A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/nam-monitor#target-filter" target="_blank">Target filter</A> concept)&nbsp;</LI> </UL> <UL> <LI><A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/nam-monitor#nam-api" target="_blank">Powerful API</A> allowing quick deployment of a large number of NAM tests&nbsp;</LI> </UL> <UL> <LI><A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/nam-monitor#icmp" target="_blank">Customizable pings</A> (number of packets, packet’s size)&nbsp;&nbsp;</LI> </UL> <UL> <LI>Direct <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/nam-monitor#outage-and-performance" target="_blank">integration</A> with Dynatrace Problems (and alerting)&nbsp;</LI> </UL> <UL> <LI>Support for the Maintenance windows.&nbsp;</LI> </UL> <UL> <LI>Significantly <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/private-synthetic-requirements#hardware-requirements" target="_blank">higher number</A> of ping tests executed from single AG – reducing infrastructure costs on the customer side&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</LI> </UL> <P>Additionally, what is worth mentioning is that NAM monitors are charged with the <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/dps-dem#how-consumption-of-synthetic-nam-monitoring-affects-billing" target="_blank">number of ingested data points</A>. That makes them significantly more attractive compared to&nbsp;this extension.</P> Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:03:50 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Synthetic-Monitoring/What-are-NAM-advantages-over-EF1-0-extensions/m-p/266611#M2927 Jacek_Janowicz 2025-01-03T12:03:50Z