Test Alerting in Dynatrace SaaS

[Konstantin_Mavr]

Hi All,

is there a way to reproduce and test alerting in Dynatrace SaaS? During Service Acceptance we have to perform a necessary "smoke testing" of deployed monitoring & alerting. We tried to simulate different scenarios on monitored host but Dynatrace SaaS didn't fire an alert at all.

Can you provide a guide how we can test different scenarios because AI module identifies our attempts?

Thanks in advance,

Konstantin

[wolfgang_beer · Accepted solution]

That very much depends on what kind of situation you want to test. If its a simple CPU spike, its just necessary to use more than 95% CPU over 3 minutes and you get a problem opened.

For service baselining its at lest necessary to run the service for more than 5hours with continous load above 10 requests/min. You can also reduce that amount by changing the service anomaly detection config.

Best greetings,

Wolfgang

[Konstantin_Mavr]

Testing is more related to Service Availability (stopped / crashed of different services).

Thanks,

Konstantin