What are the 4 parts included in the plugin.json definition for ActiveGate plugins? - Answer- Metadata, UI, Metrics, Configuration
How are ActiveGate pl... [Show More] ugins licensed? - Answer- 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? - Answer- Once per minute
Can you run multiple endpoints in a single ActiveGate plugin module? - Answer- Yes
What kind of ActiveGate executes ActiveGate plugins? - Answer- Environment ActiveGate
Can you execute ActiveGate plugins using an Environment ActiveGate that's configured for multi-environment support? - Answer- No
Where can you view results from plugin-monitoring? - Answer- Technology overview page
What is a "device group"? - Answer- A technology tile that derives its data from an ActiveGate plugin.
Why would you set up "key metrics" for an ActiveGate plugin? - Answer- Define important metrics to be displayed in technology overview page.
What is the favicon property in the plugins.json definition? - Answer- Allows you to define your own custom icon for device groups!
What can device groups represent? - Answer- Clusters, regions, groups of servers, etc.
What is a custom device group entity? - Answer- Bind metrics and properties to monitor device group metrics
How do you define the type and look of charts of ActiveGate plugins? - Answer- plugin.json
What is pgmetrics in plugins.json for ActiveGate plugins? - Answer- Section that allows you to define custom device metrics.
Does Dynatrace AI baseline the metrics of your custom devices? - Answer- Yes!
How does Dynatrace create problems from custom devices (ActiveGate plugin)? - Answer- Metric threshold violation in JSON definition. (Automatically sends events, not problems)
How do you manually generate problems for your ActiveGate plugins? - Answer- Python API - raise performance, availability, error, and resource contention problems
Does Dynatrace automatically distribute plugins between Dynatrace server and ActiveGates? - Answer- No, you need to deploy them on ActiveGate and upload them to server.
In general, what is the point of plugins.json (ActiveGate plugins)? - Answer- Define how data is presented in the Dynatrace UI.
In general, what is the point of Python files for ActiveGate plugins? - Answer- Define additional events, create custom properties.
How many Cluster Management Consoles are there per cluster? - Answer- One per cluster.
What is each managed cluster associated with? - Answer- One or more nodes (with Dynatrace server instances), one or more monitored environments (with OneAgent), one cluster management console.
What are the components included in the Dynatrace Managed installer? - Answer- Dynatrace Server, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Embedded ActiveGate, NGINX
What can you do with CMC? - Answer- Create user accounts and groups, add new cluster nodes, add new monitoring environments.
How many nodes does Dynatrace recommend per cluster? - Answer- At least 3 - data is replicated across nodes
What percentage of managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace need to be running? - Answer- Majority (50%+)
What does Dynatrace recommend for latency between managed cluster nodes? - Answer- 10ms or less
Is transaction data (call stacks, database statements, code-level visibility etc.) replicated across managed cluster nodes? - Answer- 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? - Answer- 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? - Answer- At least 3 data centers (1 can fail)
Why does Dynatrace recommend that each managed cluster node be deployed on a separate physical disk? - Answer- To prevent loss of monitoring data.
Why does Dynatrace recommend deploying managed cluster nodes on systems with the same hardware characteristics? - Answer- To minimize performance loss
What should you keep in mind when building your manged cluster? - Answer- Build cluster with additional capacity and possible node failure in mind.
What happens when a managed cluster node fails? - Answer- 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? - Answer- If you want your managed cluster to only be accessible internally.
Why would you use Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 2: Pure Dynatrace Managed setup? - Answer- 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? - Answer- 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? - Answer- Yes
In Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 1: basic setup, what is each communication channel secured with? - Answer- TLS (Transport layer security)
Is a Cluster ActiveGate required for Dynatrace Managed deployment scenario 2: Pure Dynatrace Managed setup? - Answer- Yes. It needs a publicly available IP address, a domain name with a valid SSL certificate, and the domain must be different from web UI domain.
How many Cluster ActiveGates are recommended for high-load production-ready installations with external hosts, apps, sessions and synthetic monitoring? - Answer- 2 Cluster ActiveGates are recommended with the same domain name and certificate
What are the steps to take to use an Environment ActiveGate and a Cluster ActiveGate? - Answer- 1. Set up Dynatrace Manged cluster
2. Set up Cluster ActiveGate, make sure it can connect with Dyantrace Manged cluster. Make sure Cluster ActiveGate has public IP address.
3. Set up Environment ActiveGate and provide Cluster ActiveGate public address for external communication.
Is CMC web UI traffic accessed using HTTP or HTTPS? - Answer- HTTPS
Is a TLS certificate required to use CMC? - Answer- Yes
What is the default subdomain of a managed cluster? - Answer- *.dynatrace-managed.com
Do managed clusters automatically have an SSL certificate? - Answer- Yes - from Let's Encrypt
Do Cluster ActiveGates support proxying of Web UI traffic? - Answer- No
How should you prepare to horizontally scale your managed cluster? - Answer- Adding more nodes
How many managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace support for managed versions 1.168 and higher? - Answer- 15 cluster nodes
How many managed cluster nodes does Dynatrace support for managed versions 1.167 and lower? - Answer- 6 cluster nodes
How should you prepare to vertically scale your managed cluster? - Answer- 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? - Answer- CPU and RAM
Can managed cluster node CPUs have power saving mode enabled? - Answer- No, power saving mode must be disabled
What is the minimum CPU clock speed of a manged cluster node? - Answer- 2GHz
What is the minimum amount of RAM a managed cluster node should have? - Answer- 32 GB
How is storage done in multi-node clusters? - Answer- 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? - Answer- 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? - Answer- No, avoid additional complexity when resizing disk later, if required
Does Dynatrace recommend creating resizable disk partitions for Dynatrace Managed? - Answer- Yes (e.g. Logical Volume Manager)
Is OneAgent self-monitoring enabled by default for Dynatrace Managed? - Answer- Yes, an opt-out installation parameter is available
What operating systems can a managed cluster node be? - Answer- All nodes must be on same Linux distribution.
Do we recommend all managed cluster nodes to have the same hardware configuration? - Answer- Yes
Do we recommend that all managed cluster nodes are synchronized with NTP? - Answer- Yes
Do we recommend all managed cluster nodes to be in the same time zone? - Answer- Yes
Can you install Dynatrace Managed on a 32 bit Linux distribution? - Answer- No, you must install Dynatrace Managed on a 64 bit Linux distribution.
Can you install Dynatrace Managed on a virtualized host? - Answer- Yes
Can you install Dynatrace Managed on a container? - Answer- No
Does Dynatrace support encrypted private keys when installing your own SSL certificate? - Answer- No
How many days must Mission Control be unavailable before all monitored hosts are disabled? - Answer- 14 days
What data is exchanged between Managed Clusters and Mission Control? - Answer- Installation, registration, license, health check, consumption, heartbeat, updates.
How frequently is installation data exchanged between Managed Clusters and Mission Control? - Answer- Once during installation and during every upgrade [Show Less]
