Dynatrace
Overview
Dynatrace is a monitoring and observability platform. Integrate Dynatrace with Cortex to get insights into application performance, service discovery, SLOs, and dependencies.
How to configure Dynatrace with Cortex
Prerequisite
Before getting started, generate an access token in Dynatrace with the scopes Read entities
and Read SLO
.
Configure the integration in Cortex
In Cortex, navigate to the Dynatrace settings page:
In Cortex, click your avatar in the lower left corner, then click Settings.
Under "Integrations", click Dynatrace.
Click Add configuration.
Configure the Dynatrace integration form:
Domain: Enter your Dynatrace domain necessary to access your environment, depending on whether you use managed, SaaS, or the Environment ActiveGate version.
*API token: Enter the access token you generated in Dynatrace.
Click Save.
If you’ve set everything up correctly, you’ll see the option to Remove Integration in settings.
You can also use the Test configuration button to confirm that the configuration was successful. If your configuration is valid, you’ll see a banner that says “Configuration is valid. If you see issues, please see documentation or reach out to Cortex support.”
How to connect Cortex entities to Dynatrace
Import entities from Dynatrace
See the Create services documentation for instructions on importing entities.
Editing the entity Entity descriptor
Entity ID
Entities with a type of "SERVICE"
will be discovered and surfaced. When using the Dynatrace portal, service IDs can be found in the URL of a selected service under the id query param. For example, https://.live.dynatrace.com/#newservices/serviceOverview;id=
x-cortex-apm:
dynatrace:
entityIds:
- mock-service-id-1
- mock-service-id-2
Entity name
You can also match entities based on matching display names with a regular expression, like:
x-cortex-apm:
dynatrace:
entityNameMatchers:
- "foo.*"
Linking SLOs in Cortex
Dynatrace supports service-level objective (SLO) monitoring. You can link these SLOs to your Dynatrace entity in Cortex:
In Dynatrace, navigate to the Service-Level Objectives app.
On the left sidebar of Dynatrace, click Search, then type in
slo
to find the app.
On the SLOs page, see the list of SLOs. On the right side of an SLO, click ^ to expand the Details.
In your browser's URL bar, locate the ID in the URL. Copy the ID and store it in a secure location, as you will need this value in the next steps.
The ID is displayed in the URL following
sloexp=
. For example,https://.apps.dynatrace.com/ui/.../sloexp=&slovis=
On the SLOs page, expand the details for each SLO to display the SLO ID in the URL.
Open your Cortex home page, then navigate to the service you are configuring.
In the upper right corner of the service page, click Switch to YAML.
Paste in the following text, making sure to replace
slo-id-1
andslo-id-2
with the SLO IDs you obtained from the Dynatrace URL in the previous steps:
x-cortex-slos:
dynatrace:
- id: slo-id-1
- id: slo-id-2
At the bottom of the page, click Save.
After saving, navigate back to your service details page to view the SLO status in the service's Overview tab.
For information on working with SLOs in Dynatrace, see Dynatrace's documentation.
Dependencies
Cortex automatically syncs dependencies from Dynatrace using attributes inherent to each entity.
Discovery audit
Cortex will pull recent changes from your Dynatrace instance into the discovered entities list. Here, you can find new entities in Dynatrace that have not been imported into the catalog - these will have the tag New APM resource - as well as entities in the catalog that no longer exist in Dynatrace - these will have the tag APM resource not detected.
Expected results
Entity pages
With the Dynatrace integration, you'll see SLOs on an entity's home page. High-level information about SLOs appears in the Overview tab.
Click Monitoring in the entity's sidebar to see more detailed data: the SLO name, its target, the current value for that entity, and the period of time the SLO is being calculated for. For example, if the time listed is "7 days ago," then the SLO is looking at the time range starting 7 days ago to now.
Relationship graphs
Dependencies detected from Dynatrace will appear in Relationship graphs.
Scorecards and CQL
With the Dynatrace integration, you can create Scorecard rules and write CQL queries based on Dynatrace SLOs.
See more examples in the CQL Explorer in Cortex.
Background sync
Cortex conducts a background sync of Dynatrace entities at 7 a.m. UTC and a dependency sync every day at 12 a.m. UTC.
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