Has anyone used Dynatrace for monitoring Azure App Service performance?

[tonybode994]

I recently cleared my Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Exam. Since it’s a beginner-level certification, I’m still new to working with real Azure environments and exploring how different monitoring tools can be used effectively. While preparing for the exam, I studied different Azure monitoring options. I found some AZ-900 exam questions on Pass4Future that mentioned monitoring Azure App Service performance. Those questions helped me understand the basic concept of how monitoring works in Azure, but they didn’t explain how to do it with Dynatrace.

Now I’m trying to learn how Dynatrace fits into this process. Can Dynatrace be directly connected with Azure App Service to collect metrics, logs, and performance data? I’m also curious if anyone here has used it for alerting or integration with Azure Monitor or Application Insights. If someone has hands-on experience or can share practical tips, it would be a great help for me to understand how to apply these concepts beyond theory.

[g_kat]

Hi,

Dynatrace has an extensive documentation about every possible integration with Azure. I suggest you start from here: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/ingest-from/microsoft-azure-services).

Regarding Application Insights, it is generally not advised to run both Dynatrace and AppInsights in an App Service, as they may conflict due to the similarity in their injection mechanism.

There are 2 main ways of monitoring the Azure App Services:

1. Install OneAgent or instrument the application using the SDK. This way you can get code-level monitoring data about the application requests(https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/ingest-from/microsoft-azure-services/azure-integrations/azure-appser...).

2. Ingest metrics from Azure Monitor and then create dashboards and alerts inside Dynatrace based on those data(https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/ingest-from/microsoft-azure-services/azure-integrations/azure-monito...).