Public Synthetic requirements for Managed

[DynaQ]

Hi,

In a Managed environment, do we need to set up a Cluster ActiveGate in order to be able to see and select the public (Dynatrace hosted) locations when creating a Synthetic monitor?

Thanks

[rastislav_danis · Accepted solution]

Yes.

The Cluster ActiveGate requires:

• A publicly available IP address
• A domain name with a valid SSL certificate, since external communication is only supported in a secure manner using HTTPS (port 443). This domain must be different from the domain of the Dynatrace web UI. You can choose to provide a domain and a SSL certificate on your own or let Dynatrace do this for you. Dynatrace can generate a domain and a valid SSL certificate on your behalf.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/managed-deployment-scenarios#scenario-2-pure-dynatr...

[fstekelenburg]

Even more important. It's required as endpoint to receive the data from the public locations.
Agentless Real User Monitoring, mobile-app monitoring, and synthetic monitors all use the same endpoint to transmit monitoring data to Dynatrace.

You do not need to, but it's advisable to deploy behind a load balancer, especially when you deploying more than one CAG's. See the link ratislav shared.