https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Container-platforms/Enabling-Remote-StatsD-Monitoring-via-ActiveGate-in-Kubernetes/m-p/258834#M2697 <P>Unfortunately, enabling it for ActiveGates running in Kubernetes is impossible. Remote statsd uses the extension module which is not available in the container ActiveGates setup. See <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/ag-container-differences#communication-settings" target="_blank">docs</A> for feature comparison. Until this becomes available, I'd recommend ingesting the metrics through an ActiveGate on a VM or consider using a different method of metric ingestion which are natively available in k8s such as Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry.</P> Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:46:50 GMT Julius_Loman 2024-10-10T14:46:50Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Container-platforms/Enabling-Remote-StatsD-Monitoring-via-ActiveGate-in-Kubernetes/m-p/258832#M2696 <P>Hello everyone.&nbsp;</P><P>I am currently working on sending application metrics from a Kubernetes-based application to Dynatrace, and I have decided to use StatsD as the transport protocol for those metrics.</P><P>Upon reviewing the documentation, I found that StatsD daemon is only available on a <STRONG>OneAgent installed on a VM or host</STRONG>, and <STRONG>OneAgent deployed via Dynatrace Operator in Kubernetes</STRONG> is not supported for StatsD ingestion. Thus, I am following the <STRONG>remote StatsD monitoring approach</STRONG> as recommended. Here are the relevant documentation references:</P><OL><LI><STRONG>StatsD with OneAgent</STRONG>: <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/extend-dynatrace/extend-metrics/ingestion-methods/statsd" target="_new" rel="noopener"><SPAN>https</SPAN><SPAN>://docs</SPAN><SPAN>.dynatrace</SPAN><SPAN>.com</SPAN><SPAN>/docs</SPAN><SPAN>/extend</SPAN><SPAN>-dynatrace</SPAN><SPAN>/extend</SPAN><SPAN>-metrics</SPAN><SPAN>/ingestion</SPAN><SPAN>-methods</SPAN><SPAN>/statsd</SPAN></A></LI><LI><STRONG>DynatraceStatsD Metric Ingestion</STRONG>: <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/statsd-metric-ingestion#enable-dynatracestatsd" target="_new" rel="noopener"><SPAN>https</SPAN><SPAN>://docs</SPAN><SPAN>.dynatrace</SPAN><SPAN>.com</SPAN><SPAN>/docs</SPAN><SPAN>/shortlink</SPAN><SPAN>/statsd</SPAN><SPAN>-metric</SPAN><SPAN>-ingestion</SPAN><SPAN>#enable</SPAN><SPAN>-dynatracestatsd</SPAN></A></LI></OL><P>According to the documentation, <STRONG>DynatraceStatsD metric ingestion is disabled by default on an ActiveGate</STRONG>, and I need to enable it. However, the provided documentation focuses on how to enable this feature for Linux/Windows environments.</P><P><STRONG>My current setup:</STRONG></P><UL><LI>Application is running in a <STRONG>Kubernetes cluster</STRONG>.</LI><LI>Metrics are planned to be sent using <STRONG>StatsD</STRONG> and forwarded to <STRONG>ActiveGate</STRONG>.</LI></UL><P>My question is:</P><OL><LI>How can I enable <STRONG>DynatraceStatsD metric ingestion</STRONG> on an <STRONG>ActiveGate</STRONG> deployed in a Kubernetes environment?</LI><LI>Is there a way to configure this setting through <STRONG>Helm charts</STRONG> or any other method specific to Kubernetes?</LI><LI>Could you provide guidance or point to any documentation that addresses configuring ActiveGate in Kubernetes for remote StatsD ingestion?</LI></OL><P>Thank you for your assistance!&nbsp;</P> Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:29:47 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Container-platforms/Enabling-Remote-StatsD-Monitoring-via-ActiveGate-in-Kubernetes/m-p/258832#M2696 apaliavy 2024-10-10T14:29:47Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Container-platforms/Enabling-Remote-StatsD-Monitoring-via-ActiveGate-in-Kubernetes/m-p/258834#M2697 <P>Unfortunately, enabling it for ActiveGates running in Kubernetes is impossible. Remote statsd uses the extension module which is not available in the container ActiveGates setup. See <A href="https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/ag-container-differences#communication-settings" target="_blank">docs</A> for feature comparison. Until this becomes available, I'd recommend ingesting the metrics through an ActiveGate on a VM or consider using a different method of metric ingestion which are natively available in k8s such as Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry.</P> Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:46:50 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Container-platforms/Enabling-Remote-StatsD-Monitoring-via-ActiveGate-in-Kubernetes/m-p/258834#M2697 Julius_Loman 2024-10-10T14:46:50Z