Dynatrace Monitoring Implementation Guide for Docker Enterprise¶

Product Benefits¶

• Auto-discovery - Dynatrace Smartscape® technology automatically detects and displays all the components and dependencies that comprise your environment, providing you with a real-time blueprint of your application architecture.
• Auto-baselining - Dynatrace uses AI to understand the difference between desirable and unwanted behaviors emerging from each component. It can also dive deep into the code to uncover methods being invoked and how they contribute to the overall performance of the system.
• Auto-problem analysis - Dynatrace rapidly identifies failures, component involvement, and root causes. Machine learning helps evaluate issues, determine if it warrants an alert, and provide valuable insights for better business decisions.

Dynatrace’s main features¶

• Hybrid multi-cloud, container, and infrastructure monitoring
• Support for native apps, microservices and containers
• Full stack discovery
• Single transaction analysis
• User behavior analytics
• Automated root-cause analysis
• Docker Swarm and Kubernetes integration
• SaaS or on-premise deployment
• Deploy, configure, and manage with zero touch
• Intuitive dashboards pre-configured with self-learning
• Open ecosystem with seamless integration along with APIs and platform extensions

Dynatrace Supported Technologies¶

Dynatrace supports are large array of technologies. Some of the most popular ones are:

AMP, ASPNET Core, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), AWS Lambda, ActiveMQ, Akka, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Android, Android app monitoring, AngularJS, Ansible, Apache Cordova, Apache HTTP Server, Azure App Service, Azure Container Services (AKS), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Web Apps, Bitbucket, C, C++, CakePHP, Cassandra, Citrix, Cloud Foundry, CouchDB, Couchbase, DC/OS, Demandware, Docker, Drupal, Elasticsearch, Erlang, Eureka, GlassFish, Golang, Google Cloud Platform, GraalVM, Grails, Hadoop, Heroku, HipChat, Hyper-V, Hystrix, IBM Bluemix, IBM Cloud, IBM Commerce, IBM HTTP Server, IBM WebSphere, IBM z/OS, JBoss, Java, Jetty, Jira, Joomla, Jython, Kubernetes, Laravel, Magento, Memcached, Mesos, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SharePoint, MongoDB, MySQL, .NET, .NET Core, Netflix OSS, Netty, Nginx, NodeJS, OpenStack, OpenTracing, Openshift, OpsGenie, Oracle Cloud, Oracle DB, Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle eBusiness, PHP, PagerDuty, Perl, Pivotal, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Play Framework, PostgreSQL, Python, RabbitMQ, Reactjs, Red Hat, Redis, Ruby, SAP, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Hybris, SQL Server, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Scala, ServiceNow, Sitecore, Slack, Spark, Splunk, Spring, Symfony, TomEE, Tomcat, Trello, VMware, VMware Cloud on AWS, Varnish, VictorOps, Webhooks, Wildfly, Windows Messaging, WordPress, iOS, iOS, jQuery, xMatters

Dynatrace Monitoring environment¶

The Dynatrace Monitoring environment consists of a Dynatrace server, Dynatrace agents and Dynatrace Activate (proxy).

Install the Linux Dynatrace agent on a Linux Docker Enterprise MKE node¶

1. From the Dynatrace Web UI, navigate to the Deploy Dynatrace page by clicking on the Deploy Dynatrace link (bottom left). Then click on the Start installation button.

   

2. From the Download Dynatrace OneAgent page click on the Linux button.

   

3. Copy the wget command which downloads the Dynatrace agent installation bits by clicking on the Copy button to the right of the command.

   

4. Paste the wget command into a Linux command prompt and run it with root authority (sudo).

   

5. Copy the command to install the Dynatrace agent by clicking on the Copy button to the right of the command.

   

6. Paste the command into a Linux command prompt and run it with root authority (sudo).

   

If Docker Enterprise was installed prior to installing the Dynatrace agent you will need to reboot the machine.

Repeat the above Dynatrace agent installation on all of the Linux Docker nodes.

Install the Windows Dynatrace agent on a Windows Docker Enterprise MKE node¶

1. From the Dynatrace Web UI, navigate to the Deploy Dynatrace page by clicking on the Deploy Dynatrace link (bottom left). Then click on the Start installation button.

   

2. From the Download Dynatrace OneAgent page click on the Windows button.

   

3. Right click on the Download agent.exe button and copy the Link to download the installation bits.

   

4. Run the following iwr command from a Powershell command prompt to download the Windows Dynatrace agent installation bits. Substitute the text dynatrace-oneagent-windows-download-link with the Windows Dynatrace agent download Link you copied in the previous step.

   > iwr -outfile install_oneagent.exe -uri '**dynatrace-oneagent-windows-download-link**'

Example:

.. image:: ../_images/dynatrace/run_dynatrace_oneagent_installer_iwr_command.png
   :width: 100%
   :alt: Run the iwr command

5. Run the following install_oneagent.exe command from a Powershell command prompt to install the Windows Dynatrace agent.

    .\install_oneagent.exe /quiet /norestart

Example:

.. image:: ../_images/dynatrace/run_dynatrace_oneagent_installer_windows_command.png
   :width: 100%
   :alt: Run the iwr command

.. Note::

   The **install\_oneagent.exe** command runs detached in the background.

6. Wait about a minute and then run the following command from a Powershell command prompt to display the Dynatrace agent windows service.

   > net start | findstr /c:"Dynatrace OneAgent"

Example:

.. image:: ../_images/dynatrace/display_dynatrace_oneagent_windows_service.png
   :width: 100%
   :alt: Run the iwr command

If Docker Enterprise was installed prior to installing the Dynatrace agent you will need to reboot the machine.

Repeat the above Dynatrace agent installation on all of the Windows Docker nodes.

Display the Dynatrace agents from the Dynatrace Web UI¶

You can display the Dynatrace agents from the Dynatrace Web UI Deployment Status page.

1. From the Dynatrace Web UI, click on the Deployment Status link.

   

2. You can click on a Dynatrace agent to get more details.

   

3. More details are displayed which includes the processes and containers being monitored by the selected Dynatrace agent.

   

Dashboards & reports¶

• Dashboards - allow you to create your own custom dashboards to monitor your infrastructure and applications. Dynatrace provides a default home dashboard that provides a quick overview of your system’s health.
• Create custom chart - Custom charts enable you to analyze any combination of monitoring metrics directly on your dashboards.
• Reports - Dynatrace provides Service quality and Availability reports. Service quality reports are generated each week on Sundays at midnight so that when you start your work week each Monday morning you’ll find a new report ready for your review. Availability reports are based on web checks that you have running in Dynatrace.

Analyze¶

• Problems - Dynatrace automatically detects performance anomalies in your applications, services, and infrastructure. Dynatrace “problems” are used to report and alert on abnormal situations, such as performance degradations, improper functionality, or lack of availability (i.e., problems represent anomalies in baseline system performance).
• User sessions - A user session, sometimes known as a “visit,” is a group of user actions that are performed in your web application during a limited period of time.
• Log files - Dynatrace automatically discovers all log files on your monitored hosts and processes. You can then browse, search and filter for information in the log files.
• Smartscape topology - Visualize your application topology in an interactive infographic.
• Diagnostic tools - Dynatrace provide diagnostic tools for detecting and analyzing performance problems in your application environment.

Monitor¶

• Applications - Dynatrace monitors and visualizes application performance, provides all performance metrics in real time and detects and diagnoses problems automatically.
• Synthetic - Dynatrace allows you to define Synthetic monitors (simulated user sessions) that alert you when an application is inaccessible or when performance degrades below baseline performance.
• Transactions & services - Dynatrace captures every transaction from all applications and services.
• Databases - Dynatrace detects and monitors all databases, captures every database statement and displays detailed health metrics for each statement.
• Hosts - Dynatrace automatically monitors the state of a host machine along with the running processes and containers.
• Network - Dynatrace monitors and visualizes process-specific network performance metrics like requests and retransmissions to proactively identify connection issues.
• Technologies - Dynatrace detects and monitors over 120 technologies (clouds, applications, databases, web, integrations, etc.)
• VMware - Dynatrace monitors and visualizes your VMware environments to understand the relationships between components such as ESXi hosts and your vCenter platform as a whole.
• AWS - Dynatrace monitors and visualizes services running in the Amazon Web Services Cloud.
• Azure - Dynatrace monitors and visualizes services running in the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Docker - Dynatrace offers full-featured Docker monitoring and provides you with a complete picture of your Dockerized environments.

Manage¶

• Deploy Dynatrace - Simple wizard to walk you through deploying the Dynatrace agent.
• Deployment status - Display status of the deployed Dynatrace agents.
• Settings - Configure Dynatrace monitoring settings from the Dynatrace Web UI.

Deep monitoring of a Tomcat application¶

Deep monitoring of a MySQL Database¶

Deep monitoring of a network¶

Monitor AWS¶

You can configure Dynatrace to perform monitoring of services running in the AWS Cloud.

• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• Relational Database Service (RDS)
• DynamoDB
• Lambda

Monitor AWS Services¶

Monitor Docker nodes¶

You can display an overview of all Docker nodes and you can drill down to a specific Docker node to monitor CPU, Memory, Network and Disk utilization.

You can drill down to a specific Docker container.