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What are the 4 parts included in the plugin.json definition for ActiveGate plugins? ✔✔Metadata, UI, Metrics, Configuration
How are ActiveGate plugins licensed? ✔✔The plugin SDK is free. Dynatrace partners can develop plugin for you, will depend on contract. Whatever custom metrics are used will be charged.
How frequently do ActiveGate plugins execute? ✔✔Once per minute
Can you run multiple endpoints in a single ActiveGate plugin module? ✔✔Yes
What kind of ActiveGate executes ActiveGate plugins? ✔✔Environment ActiveGate
Can you execute ActiveGate plugins using an Environment ActiveGate that's configured for multi-environment support? ✔✔No
Where can you view results from plugin-monitoring? ✔✔Technology overview page
What is a "device group"? ✔✔A technology tile that derives its data from an ActiveGate plugin.
Why would you set up "key metrics" for an ActiveGate plugin? ✔✔Define important metrics to be displayed in technology overview page.
What is the favicon property in the plugins.json definition? ✔✔Allows you to define your own custom icon for device groups!
What can device groups represent? ✔✔Clusters, regions, groups of servers, etc.
What is a custom device group entity? ✔✔Bind metrics and properties to monitor device group metrics
How do you define the type and look of charts of ActiveGate plugins? ✔✔plugin.json
What is pgmetrics in plugins.json for ActiveGate plugins? ✔✔Section that allows you to define custom device metrics.
Does Dynatrace AI baseline the metrics of your custom devices? ✔✔Yes!
How does Dynatrace create problems from custom devices (ActiveGate plugin)? ✔✔Metric threshold violation in JSON definition. (Automatically sends events, not problems)
What can you do with CMC? ✔✔Create user accounts and groups, add new cluster nodes, add new monitoring environments.
How many nodes does Dynatrace recommend per cluster? ✔✔At least 3 - data is replicated across nodes
What percentage of managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace need to be running? ✔✔Majority (50%+)
What does Dynatrace recommend for latency between managed cluster nodes? ✔✔10ms or less
Is transaction data (call stacks, database statements, code-level visibility etc.) replicated across managed cluster nodes? ✔✔No - evenly distributed across all nodes
If you're distributing managed cluster nodes across separate data centers, what is the max amount of nodes that Dynatrace recommends per data center? ✔✔No more than 2 nodes per data center
If you're distributing managed cluster nodes across separate data centers, what is the min amount of data centers that Dynatrace recommends? ✔✔At least 3 data centers (1 can fail)
Why does Dynatrace recommend that each managed cluster node be deployed on a separate physical disk? ✔✔To prevent loss of monitoring data.
Why does Dynatrace recommend deploying managed cluster nodes on systems with the same hardware characteristics? ✔✔To minimize performance loss
What should you keep in mind when building your managed cluster? ✔✔Build cluster with additional capacity and possible node failure in mind.
What happens when a managed cluster node fails? ✔✔NGINX automatically load balances and redirects all OneAgent traffic to the remaining working nodes.
Why would you use Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 1: Basic setup? ✔✔If you want your managed cluster to only be accessible internally.
Why would you use Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 2: Pure Dynatrace Managed setup? ✔✔If you want to enable DEM services and communication from external sources.
Why would you use Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 3: integration with existing IT landscape? ✔✔When customer already has environment with load balancers and proxies in place.
In Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 1: basic setup, is remote access to Mission Control enabled? ✔✔Yes
What is the default subdomain of a managed cluster? ✔✔*.dynatrace-managed.com
Do managed clusters automatically have an SSL certificate? ✔✔Yes - from Let's Encrypt
Do Cluster ActiveGates support proxying of Web UI traffic? ✔✔No
How should you prepare to horizontally scale your managed cluster? ✔✔Adding more nodes
How many managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace support for managed versions 1.168 and higher? ✔✔15 cluster nodes
How many managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace support for managed versions 1.167 and lower? ✔✔6 cluster nodes
How should you prepare to vertically scale your managed cluster? ✔✔Provisioning more RAM/CPU per node, resize disk volume for storage size as required.
What resources must be made exclusively available for Dynatrace in a managed cluster node? ✔✔CPU and RAM
Can managed cluster node CPUs have power saving mode enabled? ✔✔No, power saving mode must be disabled
What is the minimum CPU clock speed of a managed cluster node? ✔✔2GHz
What is the minimum amount of RAM a managed cluster node should have? ✔✔32 GB
How is storage done in multi-node clusters? ✔✔Storage per node is divided by the number of nodes.
Do we recommend Dynatrace binaries and data store to be on the same mount point in Dynatrace Managed? ✔✔No - separate mount points to allow the data store to be resized independently.
Do we recommend keeping Dynatrace data storage on the root volume in Dynatrace Managed? ✔✔No, avoid additional complexity when resizing disk later, if required
Does Dynatrace recommend creating resizable disk partitions for Dynatrace Managed? ✔✔Yes (e.g. Logical Volume Manager)
Is OneAgent self-monitoring enabled by default for Dynatrace Managed? ✔✔Yes, an opt-out installation parameter is available
What operating systems can a managed cluster node be? ✔✔All nodes must be on same Linux distribution.
How frequently is installation data exchanged between Managed Clusters and Mission Control? ✔✔Once during installation and during every upgrade
What data is required from the cluster when sending installation data to Mission Control? ✔✔License key
What installation data is returned from Mission Control to Managed Clusters? ✔✔Account name, license name, OneAgent installation flag (true / false), OneAgent download URL.
How frequently is registration data exchanged between between Mission Control and Managed Clusters? ✔✔Once after first startup
What registration data do Managed Clusters send to Mission Control? ✔✔License key, cluster ID
What registration data does Mission Control send to Managed Clusters? ✔✔Registration status, username, password
How frequently is license data exchanged between Managed Clusters and Mission Control? ✔✔Once every 5 minutes
What license data do Managed Clusters send to Mission Control? ✔✔Nothing!
What license data does Mission Control send to Managed Clusters ✔✔License status, cluster ID, license key, license details, license model.
How frequently is health check data exchanged between Managed Clusters and Mission Control? ✔✔Once every 5 minutes
What health check data do Managed Clusters send to Mission Control? ✔✔Cluster ID, privacy settings, time zone, traffic size, update/maintenance window, each cluster node adds OS name and version, number of CPU cores, CPU load, total RAM, free RAM, total disk storage, used disk storage, server state, master node flag (true/false), startup time stamp, each cluster ActiveGate adds version, OS name and version, certificate issuer, type (e.g. beacon forwarder)
What health check data does Mission Control send to Managed Clusters? ✔✔Health status, message
How frequently is consumption data exchange between Mission Control and Managed Clusters? ✔✔Once every hour
What consumption data do Managed Clusters send to Mission Control? ✔✔Cluster ID, consumption timeframe, each environment adds number of new problems, number of RUM
What update data does Mission Control send to Managed Clusters? ✔✔For cluster updates: version, description, download URL. For ActiveGate updates: label, version, download URLs.
Does Mission Control and Managed Clusters ever exchange host names or other info that may compromise a cluster's security? ✔✔No
When connecting managed cluster nodes to NFS, does Dynatrace recommend NFSv4 or CIFS? ✔✔Dynatrace recommends NFSv4, not CIFS.
Where does Dynatrace recommend backup files to be stored? ✔✔Offsite location
How frequently is Cassandra data backed up in a managed cluster? ✔✔Daily, not incremental
Is Cassandra data that has been replicated between nodes deduplicated for backups? ✔✔No deduplication, duplicated data is backed up.
When backing up Cassandra data in a managed cluster, is most frequently changing column families included in the backup? ✔✔No
Does Dynatrace include 1 minute and 5 minute resolution data in Cassandra backups on managed clusters? ✔✔No, since Managed 1.
How does Dynatrace back up Cassandra data in managed clusters? ✔✔Dynatrace backs up each node individually and keeps only the latest backup
How does Dynatrace back up Elasticsearch data in managed clusters? ✔✔Dynatrace backs up entire cluster.
Does Dynatrace include duplicated data in Elasticsearch backups for managed clusters? ✔✔No
How frequently does Dynatrace perform Elasticsearch data backups for managed clusters? ✔✔Hourly, is incremental
When backing up Elasticsearch data in Dynatrace Managed clusters in a 1 or 2 node cluster, how many replicas per index does Dynatrace store? ✔✔1 replica per index
What is the payload limit for Dynatrace API? ✔✔1 MB
How many Dynatrace API requests can be made per minute for a SaaS customer? ✔✔ 50
How many Dynatrace API requests can be made per minute from a Synthetic endpoint for a SaaS customer? ✔✔ 1000
What port is used for communication between Cluster ActiveGate and Managed Cluster Node? ✔✔ 443
What port is used for communication between Environment ActiveGate and Cluster ActiveGate? ✔✔ 9999
What port is used for communication between Environment ActiveGate and Managed Cluster Node? ✔✔ 443
What port is used for communication between Environment ActiveGate and Cloud/virtualization environments? ✔✔ 443
What port is used for communication between Environment ActiveGate and SaaS Dynatrace server? ✔✔ 443
What port is used by Dynatrace Managed UI, OneAgent and REST API? ✔✔ 443
What port is used by Nodekeeper on Dynatrace Server? ✔✔ 8018
What port is used by Upgrade UI on Dynatrace Server? ✔✔ 8019
What port is used by Dynatrace Managed UI and REST API? ✔✔8020, 8021
What port is used by Dynatrace Managed UI and REST API (NGINX)? ✔✔ 8022
What port is used by Dynatrace cluster analytics engine? ✔✔5701-
What ports are used by Cassandra-based Hypercube storage? ✔✔9042, 7000, 7001, 7199
What ports are used by Elasticsearch-based search engine? ✔✔9200, 9300
Where does the OneAgentMon device appear? ✔✔Windows System during Dynatrace OneAgent installation.
What does the OneAgentMon device do? ✔✔Used for deep process monitoring. Works like monitoring driver and allows OneAgent to add its own library between OS and process it's monitoring
What kind of processes can you create OneAgent plugins for? ✔✔Detected processes by OneAgent that expose an interface (served over HTTP, databases, apps, load balancers)
How many times are superuser privileges used in Linux non-privileged mode? ✔✔Once to initiate installation process
How many log files can you analyze at a time? ✔✔Only one at a time in the context of your topology.
How long can you retain log data on the Dynatrace Server? ✔✔As little as 5 days or as much as 90 days
What is the minimum size of a log file for Dynatrace to automatically detect it? ✔✔0.5 KB
What is the minimum amount of time that a log file must exist for Dynatrace to automatically detect it? ✔✔1 minute
Is OneAgent restart required to apply AppLogAutoDetection settings in ruxiagentloganalytics.conf? ✔✔No
Where are log files stored for Dynatrace SaaS (log analytics)? ✔✔Amazon Elastic File Storage in zone where your Dyantrace environment resides
Are there additional costs for log file disk storage in Dynatrace SaaS? ✔✔No, disk storage costs are included in your log monitoring subscription.
How is log monitoring cost calculated? ✔✔It is based on the average size of your cloud-based log storage, including the amount of streamed log data and the defined retention period.
What are the two access methods for AWS integration in Dynatrace Managed? ✔✔Key-based, Role-based
How often does Dynatrace make Amazon API requests? ✔✔5 minutes
With Dynatrace SaaS, when you are integrating with AWS with Role-based access what Dynatrace component do you need? ✔✔Environment Activegate
What are the three steps for integrating Dynatrace with AWS? ✔✔1. Create AWS Monitoring Policy
- Choose access method
- Define AWS resource tagging
When connecting to AWS with role-based access with Dynatrace using an environment- activegate, how many activegates can have AWS_MONITORING_ENABLED set to true? ✔✔Just 1
How do you monitor Elastic Beanstalk with Dynatrace? ✔✔By creating a configuration to install OneAgent
