Synthetic Monitoring - Pre-Defined alerting profile

[Adi_10]

Hi Community, 

Need your help, Next week we are starting to One agent installation in all servers.

I have 2 questions here: 

1) After One Agent installation, what are pre-defined alerting profiles for (Windows/Linux) host from Dynatrace?

2) Why do we need synthetic monitoring for the same host where we are installing the One Agent? (Public/Private locations)

Please help me on this, would be happier if you share document link as I am getting carried away to another query by using Dynatrace Doc not getting exact Doc. 

[p_devulapalli · Accepted solution]

@Adi_10 - After installing OneAgent on your Windows or Linux hosts Dynatrace automatically detects infrastructure-related performance anomalies to monitor the health and performance of your infrastructure. Please refer to the link below for details of the anomaly detection capabilities 

Host anomaly detection - Dynatrace Docs

While OneAgent provides insights into the performance and health of your hosts and applications, synthetic monitoring provides  insights into availability and performance of your applications as experienced by end users

Here are some synthetic use cases which might help you understand 

Synthetic monitoring - Real world use cases - Dynatrace Community

What is synthetic monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring - Dynatrace Docs