Differences in Apigee proxy traffic metrics between Dynatrace and Google Cloud Monitoring

[vchitti]

Hello Community,

I’m working with Apigee metrics in Dynatrace and I’ve noticed some differences compared to what I see in Google Cloud Monitoring. Specifically, I’m looking at the proxy traffic metric:

• In Dynatrace: cloud.gcp.apigee_googleapis_com.proxyv2.request_count

• In Google Cloud Monitoring: /proxy/request_count

When I query these metrics for the same proxy and environment, the numbers don’t always line up. In most cases, Dynatrace seems to report higher totals than Cloud Monitoring, and I’m trying to understand why.

My questions are:

• Are there differences in how Dynatrace ingests or aggregates Apigee metrics compared to Google Cloud Monitoring?

• Does Dynatrace includes every traced hop (eg: backend calls, retries, OAuth, ServiceCallout etc)

• Is there any guidance on how to reconcile request counts between Dynatrace and Google Cloud Monitoring so that dashboards and alerts are consistent?

Any insights or best practices from others who have compared these two would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance!