End-to-End Monitoring for EC2: Deploying Dynatrace OneAgent on Linux

Objective: Enable resource monitoring for AWS EC2 instances using the Dynatrace monitoring tool (OneAgent) to gain real-time insights into system performance, detect anomalies, and optimize resource utilization.

What is Dynatrace?

Dynatrace is a platform for observability and application performance monitoring (APM) that delivers real-time insights into application performance, infrastructure oversight, and analytics powered by AI. It assists teams in detecting, diagnosing, and resolving problems more quickly by providing comprehensive monitoring across logs, metrics, traces, and insights into user experience.

Dynatrace OneAgent

Dynatrace OneAgent is primarily a single binary file that comprises a collection of specialized services tailored to your monitoring setup. These services collect metrics related to various components of your hosts, including hardware specifications, operating systems, and application processes. The agent also has the capability to closely monitor specific technologies (such as Java, Node.js, and .NET) by embedding itself within these processes and analyzing them from the inside ...