Introduction - Managed

Question 1

What are the different delivery options in Dynatrace?

Answer 1

1. Dynatrace SaaS
2. Dynatrace Managed

Question 2

What is Dynatrace ActiveGate?

Answer 2

A proxy between OneAgent and Dynatrace Server. It encrypts the traffic using HTTPS and requires full internet access.
Custom ActiveGate extensions can help monitor AWS, K8s, etc. Embedded ActiveGate is required for VMware, RUM & Synthetic monitoring.

Question 3

What is RUM monitoring?

Answer 3

Real User Monitoring is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application.
It can collect a variety of data, including, load actions, and user sessions. It records all user actions to have a complete picture of a user’s experience

Question 4

What is Synthetic Monitoring?

Answer 4

Synthetic monitoring emulates the paths users might take when engaging with an application.

Question 5

What are some of the OneAgent capabilities?

Answer 5

RUM
Web applications (Auto injects js)
Mobile applications (Manually include library)
Server-side service monitoring
Web services
Web Containers
Database Requests
Custom services
Network, Process and Host Monitoring
Log file monitoring and reporting
Database
Auto-detect hypervisor and cloud platform
container aware

Question 6

What is the Smartscape topology?

Answer 6

Data centers => Hosts => Processes => Services => Applications

Question 7

What is APM?

Answer 7

Application Performance Monitoring is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data.

Question 8

What is the difference between Dynatrace SaaS and Dynatrace Managed?

Answer 8

In Dyantrace managed data is retained and controlled by the user, while in SaaS the data is sent to the Dynatrace Cloud.

Question 9

What is Dynatrace Node/Server composed off

Answer 9

1. Public Security Gateway
2. Nginx
3. Casandra
4. Dynatrace server instance
5. Elastic Search

Question 10

Where does Dynatrace Node need to connect for maintenance and licensing issues?

Answer 10

Mission Control

Question 11

What are the different types ActiveGate and where are they required?

Answer 11

1. Environment ActiveGate (For SaaS & Managed)
2. Cluster ActiveGate (Manily for Managed)

Question 12

What are the 3 different purposes of ActiveGate

Answer 12

1. Route OneAgent traffic
2. Synthetic monitoring
3. Route z/OS traffic to Dynatrace
   Each purpose has its own subset of modules and requires a dedicated ActiveGate.

Question 13

What is the difference between Environment Classic ActiveGate vs Environment Cloud-native ActiveGate?

Answer 13

Environment Classic ActiveGate runs on Physical hosts or VM
Environment Cloud-native ActiveGate runs on Containers

Question 14

What are the incoming and outgoing ports required for ActiveGate?

Answer 14

Incoming port: 9999
Outgoing port: 443, 8443

Question 15

If you need ActiveGate in your environment you should install it first before deploying OneAgent!

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Dynatrace automatically detects and groups processes!

Answer 16

True, Auto detection can be enabled or disabled.

Question 17

What are Simple detection rules?

Answer 17

Simple process group detection rules enable you to adapt the default process-group detection logic for deep monitored processes via Java system properties or environment variables.

Question 18

What are Advance detection rules?

Answer 18

Advanced process group detection rules allow you to create a process group by merging processes from different groups, and enable you to adapt the detection logic for deep monitored processes by leveraging properties that are automatically detected by OneAgent during the startup of a process.

Question 19

What is Declarative Process Monitoring?

Answer 19

Dynatrace automatically monitors important process group types—process groups that are either of a known technology or that consume significant resources.
Dynatrace also provides the option of monitoring specific processes that fall into neither of these two categories.
Declarative grouping works only for processes that aren’t deep-monitored.

Question 20

What is user action naming?

Answer 20

User action names are generated automatically based on triggered load or XHR URLs and are often difficult to read and remember.
User action naming rules give you the option to generate consistent and readable user actions that can be easily grouped and tracked throughout the application.

Question 21

What are user tags, tagging methods

Answer 21

Dynatrace assigns a unique random ID to each user, we can create rules to tag and assign more meaningful full names to the IDs.
We can create a regular expression for CSS or Javascript variables to create tagging rules.

Question 22

What are conversion goals?

Answer 22

Conversion goals help you measure how well the application is fulfilling your company’s business goals

Question 23

How does Dynatrace RUM monitor user correlation?

Answer 23

Dynatrace RUM relies on browser cookies to monitor and track user behavior.
Dynatrace usually creates these cookies automatically.

Question 24

How does Dynatrace characterize different detected services?

Answer 24

Clustered Services: same services in multiple processes, same process group

Separated Services: same services in multiple processes, Multiple process group

Merged Services: same process group, same technology, separated nodes

Opaque Services: not monitored, but detected by request made by other services

Question 25

What are custom services?

Answer 25

If your applications are not built on standard technology they can be monitored using customer services with pre-defined entry points.
Custom service can have multiple entry points
Dyntrace understands delegated functions (one function calls another function)

Question 26

What are Web Request Naming

Answer 26

Web Request Naming also you to assign more meaningful names to web requests.

Question 27

What are Key Requests

Answer 27

Key Requests are important requests that are critical to the business to monitor.
Defining a request as Key Request in Dynatrace has some advantages.
1. Long term metric history
2. Request granularity is kept for 35 Days
3. Custom alerting thresholds are available.
4. Increased visibility even if it is less than 1% of the throughput

Question 28

What are the different ways you can add tags

Answer 28

Manual Tagging: Manually tags directly to resources
Automated Tagging: Automatically attach tags by creating rules
Imported Tagging: you can import tags from AWS, Kuberneties tags into dynatrace