Pro tip: Reduce OneAgent network monitoring CPU usage

AntonioSousa — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:01:51 GMT

The "OneAgent network monitoring" process grabs a lot of useful information about network metrics, including at process level. A lot of other useful metrics and even contributions to network topology are performed.

But there are times where it can take up some CPU. And that typically happens when traffic on the server is huge. The process has a built-in mechanism to not go beyond 5% CPU usage (in https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform-modules/infrastructure-monitoring/networks/how-to-monitor-network-communication) :

But there are cases where even 2%/3% CPU usage might not be acceptable. That was the case where a server was at 100% CPU usage. In this case, there is an option to exclude certain NICs (or even IPs), by host being monitored. In the Settings of a host, select "Exclude network traffic", and then one of the two options, NIC / IP.

In my case, a server that was having traffic around 4 Gbps, had the main NIC excluded. As can be seen in the "OneAgent network monitoring" CPU usage, the impact was significant. Indeed, the server has two NICs, and one of them is still being monitored:

Once again, you will loose a lot of information by disabling this, but if it's really needed, it's better than stopping the whole network, or even stopping OneAgent.

Re: Pro tip: Reduce OneAgent network monitoring CPU usage

Mizső — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 06:45:04 GMT

Hi @AntonioSousa,

Thanks for sharing.

Best regards,

Mizső

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