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Add a Dynatrace Integration

The Dynatrace integration is an AI-powered, full-stack, automated performance management solution. This integration collects the metrics from a Dynatrace SaaS environment and sends them to VMware Aria Operations for Applications (formerly known as Tanzu Observability by Wavefront).

Limitations

In this initial release of the Dynatrace integration, we have the following limitations:

  • Billing metrics are not allowed and fetched with this release.
  • If the point tags are with Annotations Key Length Limit greater than 64, the metrics associated with the corresponding point tag will be dropped.
  • For metrics with the resolution other than the value of 1 minute (1m), there could be data loss as these metrics might have different resolution, such as 5 minutes or 1 hour.

Obtain the Environment ID and Generate an API Token

To set up the Dynatrace integration, you must provide the environment ID and a valid API token.

  1. Log in to your Dynatrace account.
  2. Click the user icon in the header, and from the context menu, select your user name.
  3. Under the Environment access and settings section, click the name of the environment that you want to monitor.
  4. Copy the Environment ID shown in the URL of the form https://your-environment-id.live.dynatrace.com and paste it in a text file.
  5. Click Access Tokens in the navigation menu.
  6. In the Access Tokens page, click the Generate new token button.
  7. In the Token name text box, enter the name for the API token.
  8. From the list of scopes, select Read metrics (metrics.read) and Read entities (entities.read), and click the Generate button.
  9. Copy the generated token by clicking the Copy button and paste it in a text file.

Register the Dynatrace Integration

After you copy the environment ID and the generated API token, follow these steps:

  1. In the Name text box, enter a meaningful name.

  2. In the Environment ID text box, provide the environment ID.

  3. In the API Token text box, provide the API token.

    The API Token is securely stored and never exposed except for read-only access to fetch data from the Dynatrace Operations server.

  4. (Optional) In the Metric Allow List text box, add metrics to an allow list by entering a regular expression. For example:

    • To fetch only Apache Tomcat and Oracle WebLogic metrics, enter: ^dynatrace.(.)(tomcat|weblogic).$
    • To fetch only Kubernetes metrics, enter: ^dynatrace.(.)(cloud.kubernetes).$
    • To fetch only host performance metrics, enter: ^dynatrace.(.)(host).$
    • To fetch only Synthetic metrics, enter: ^dynatrace.(.)(synthetic).$

  5. (Optional) Change the Service Refresh Rate. The default is 5 minutes.

  6. Click Register.