topic Re: Custom Database Queries in Dynatrace tips

Custom Database Queries

AntonioSousa — Fri, 06 May 2022 10:10:12 GMT

Custom Database Queries is a new extension "to bring in business data, job processing metrics, database and table statistics, anything that is stored in your Databases" into Dynatrace!

It doesn't seem to be an Extension 2.0 yet, but the corresponding documentation pages about the SQL Data sources are already out there:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/extend-dynatrace/extensions20/data-sources/sql

Although I have not yet tried it out, it looks very promising!

Re: Custom Database Queries

Shirai — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 05:43:06 GMT

I received a question from a customer about this extension. I will try this extension once.

Re: Custom Database Queries

techean — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:24:05 GMT

One of our client used for Oracle DB monitoring to ingest custom metric into Dynatrace, works fine !

Re: Custom Database Queries

charles_preecs — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:18:06 GMT

We started using this extension recently and its been very helpful. Hope it is moved to v2 soon.

Re: Custom Database Queries

Mizső — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 16:00:45 GMT

It is a great tool. It opens lot of new opportunities to correlate business and IT performance data in real time. Extension configuration is quite easy. Remoteplugin log is very useful during the configuration on the installed AG. My only probelm is: similar to other AG extensions, in case of issue with the AG there is no data. See attached an example dashbord piece.

Re: Custom Database Queries

echwallah — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:13:51 GMT

This feature seems very exciting to explore but according to Cluster update 1.246 this has been suspended due to Security concerns. @AntonioSousa is this correct?

Quoting the release notes

Infrastructure Monitoring

Due to security concerns, we have blocked custom SQL extensions using the Extensions 2.0 framework. (APM-378722)"

Re: Custom Database Queries

echwallah — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:16:34 GMT

This feature seems very exciting to explore but according to Cluster update 1.246 this has been suspended due to Security concerns. @AntonioSousa is this correct?

Quoting the release notes

Infrastructure Monitoring

Due to security concerns, we have blocked custom SQL extensions using the Extensions 2.0 framework. (APM-378722)"

Re: Custom Database Queries

AntonioSousa — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:02:45 GMT

@echwallah,

Not quite sure about the Release Notes. I can confirm that my custom queries keep working under 1.246. In any case, the one I'm using is not the extensions v2, so shouldn't be affected.

Re: Custom Database Queries

Kenny_Gillette — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:22:42 GMT

We use to check sql blocking and chart it in dynatrace. Love it

Re: Custom Database Queries

Kenny_Gillette — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:24:04 GMT

It does not affect this plugin. We checked with Dynatrace. Our plugin is still working also.

Re: Custom Database Queries

Sanket_Molavade — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 06:05:15 GMT

Hi all,

We have configured the same but not getting proper output metrics.

can you help me to configure the same?

Actually we want the output of custom query and set alerting on the output of that query.

In data explore we are not able to get the db output matrices.

We have mentioned the configuration and output below,

OUTPUT:

Thank you in advance.

Re: Custom Database Queries

Mizső — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 06:19:36 GMT

Hi @Sanket_Molavade,

Could you please check my post?

Solved: Re: Generic DB Query Plugin - Dynatrace Community

If you need any further support please let me know.

Best regards,

Mizső

Re: Custom Database Queries

jegron — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:33:52 GMT

Right now, still unable to upload SQL Extension 2.0.

But for your information, Dynatrace support told me 1.257 release will allow again custom SQL query with extension V2 🙂

Re: Custom Database Queries

Shivanish — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:51:24 GMT

Hello Sanket,

May i know how you achieve this ? I'm dealing with same case so need suggestions.

Re: Custom Database Queries

Shivanish — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:59:25 GMT

Hello Mizso,

How we can set the alert/threshold on output of custom query ??

Re: Custom Database Queries

Mizső — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:42:00 GMT

Hi @Shivanish,

Custom query create a metric: custom.db.query. You can use it to create a metric event.

In data explorer you can create a metric expression by splitting and filtering your custom db query metric by its dimenasions. Here is an example:

Create metric expression by advance mode you can copy it to the metric event creation:

Create a metric event by the metric expression:

Then you need an any alareing profile and a problem notification integration eg, for e-mail alerting.

I hope it helps.

Best regards,

Mizső