Does the tool support agentless and agent-based monitoring for SAN environments?

[GosiaMurawska]

What types of SAN devices and vendors are supported by Dynatrace’s agentless monitoring via Extensions v2?

[theharithsa · Accepted solution]

Yes. Dynatrace supports both:

• Agent-based monitoring: By installing OneAgent on servers or virtual machines that interact with SAN devices, Dynatrace captures disk-level metrics like IOPS, throughput, and latency. While it doesn’t run directly on SAN hardware, it can monitor the performance impact from the system’s perspective.
• Agentless monitoring: For true SAN visibility, Dynatrace provides agentless integration using Extensions v2. These extensions can query SAN devices via SNMP, REST APIs, or vendor CLIs to ingest detailed storage metrics into the Dynatrace platform without deploying agents on the SAN hardware.