topic OneAgent Watchdog Process Behaviour in Dynatrace tips

OneAgent Watchdog Process Behaviour

theharithsa — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:53:03 GMT

What happens when we terminate OneAgent Watchdog process on a host, Will it stop monitoring?

Re: OneAgent Watchdog Process Behaviour

theharithsa — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 03:39:23 GMT

This tip might help you guys to understand how Dynatrace OneAgent works in its host. OneAgent has around 5 process that will run when it is working perfectly in your host. They are, Network, Watchdog, Monitoring, Plugin/Extension, Log Monitoring.

If you stop Watchdog process, it will terminate other monitoring processes except plugin/extension which makes OneAgent plugins that are installed will work on the host. However, all the communication between that host and the Dynatrace server will stop. This is because Watchdog is the process that is responsible for the communication between your host and AG/Dynatrace server.

Re: OneAgent Watchdog Process Behaviour

AntonioSousa — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:16:43 GMT

Just to complement that they are different processes that can be seen in the list of processes inside each host Dynatrace is monitoring.