Dynatrace
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Dynatrace Pro Cert Exam
What are the 4 parts included in the
... [Show More] plugin.json definition for ActiveGate plugins? - Answer Metadata, UI, Metrics, Configuration
How are ActiveGate plugins 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) [Show Less]