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Agentless Monitoring

MaxHeeren
Contributor

Hello, 

 

is it possible to monitor my application without the OA? So agentless? Not just RUM, but infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring etc.?

 

Greetings, 

Max

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Taylor-Sanchez
Dynatrace Mentor
Dynatrace Mentor

Hi @MaxHeeren ,

As far as I know, the only way that you can do agent-less monitoring of your applications is the method your described for RUM here:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform-modules/digital-experience/web-applications/initial-setup/s...

In all other instances, the OA is necessary to inject the code-modules needed for monitoring. This allows for Dynatrace to be able to get the metrics for your analysis. 

Thanks,

Taylor Sanchez

Dynatrace ACE Services Consultant

Taylor-Sanchez
Dynatrace Mentor
Dynatrace Mentor

In addition, and follow up question - is there a reason you were asking of this possibility? Are there potential restrictions as to why you may not want to monitor with the agent?

Dynatrace ACE Services Consultant

Hello @Taylor-Sanchez 

ah ok! Yes, one of the servers doesn't meet the requirements for the OA.

So for that, the only possible way would be the one describes in agentless RUM? 

In order to reach the data, that the OA is collecting automatically, you would need to do a lot of manual instrumentation, correct?

islam_zidan
Champion

Hi @MaxHeeren 

In addition to agentless RUM, you can get some metrics related to infra using the remote monitoring extensions like the below one. but the only way to get traces and code-level visibility is the OA.

https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/remote-unix-monitoring-20

 

Thanks,

Islam

Dynatrace Certified Professional - Dynatrace Partner - Yourcompass.ca

Hi @islam_zidan 

that helps. Thank you!

Traces can't be done even with manual instrumentation?

You will need to put some libraries in the host itself and call it from the process startup script, which is almost similar to Oneagent installation.

Dynatrace Certified Professional - Dynatrace Partner - Yourcompass.ca

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