Proxy Chain in distributed Traces

[Swati_Bhat]

Hi Everyone , 

Can someone please guide me on -to see proxy chain in distributed trace, do we need to add any plugin or by default proxy details are shown?

Thanks

SB

[Romanenkov_Al3x · Accepted solution]

Hello.

Dynatrace will automatically detects proxy without any plugins from meta-data of requests. For example: if you have  HAproxy on host or kube-proxy - you can see this information on ServiceFlow - it will be discovered automatically.

You also can find this information on Trace level (PurePath level) in Summary tab:

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On graphics you can also see tips:

left - on this screenshot service string #2 from *, right - on this screenshot service string #3 from *

For more information and examples I recommend to check Dynatrace blog these great articles: link#1, link#2

Regards,

Alex Romanenkov

[andre_vdveen]

Further to what @Romanenkov_Al3x already explained, you could enhance the service flow views by adding a more descriptive name for each proxy by adding a custom device, instead of just seeing the IP addresses.

We've also taken it one step further for a customer by integrating it with the F5 BIG-IP plugin, so when one clicks on the name in the right-hand area of the screen, you're taken to the custom device, where you can then click the 'Show details' button and you'll be taken to the F5 plugin metrics for that specific pool.

[pahofmann]

How did you do it for the F5 Plugin, have a customer that want's the same for datapower.

Pretty sure I've had this somewhere before, but not able to find anything in the docs.

[andre_vdveen]

Hi @pahofmann I had to set up custom devices for each of the F5 virtual servers, based on the IPs I saw in the service flow. Once the custom device was configured, with the same IP and a hostname, it detected the proxy in the service flow by the name and not the 'meaningless' IP address. If you configured the custom device to link to the F5 virtual server too, one could do the drilldown from service flow to the actual F5 plugin data directly 🙂

The 'URL of your device' field is what I used to link directly to the F5 plugin's details, specifically the F5 virtual server's details in this case.

I hope that helps - if you need more detail on how to set it up, I'll have to see if I can do a write-up with steps and post it here.

[Peter_Youssef]

Hi @Swati_Bhat 
It's automatically discovered out of the box by Dynatrace, in case you need to define or customize proxy configurations

for OA deployments use:  --set-proxy=172.1.1.128:8080

For AG proxy configuration, feel free to visit: AG Proxy configurations 

Regards,

[Peter_Youssef]

Hi @Swati_Bhat 

You have options to:

• Add F5 extension to get visibility into F5 and F5 entities "instances, virtual server, pool members, interfaces" will be correlated with the monitored entities on the monitoring tenant.

Or

• Create custom device as highlighted by @andre_vdveen.

Simply, you can decide as per the proposed suggestions and actual setup.

KR,

Peter.