Dynatrace Concepts

Internal

• Dynatrace

System Profile

A System Profile is the "workspace" where you administer a certain application environment. A System Profile contains all configuration settings that belong to a certain set of AppMon Agents. More details: https://community.dynatrace.com/community/display/DOCDT65/System+Profile

Session

A session is a set of diagnosis data related to a specific System Profile.

Application Monitoring

• Application Monitoring: https://community.dynatrace.com/community/display/DOCDT65/Application+Monitoring
• Application Monitoring Reference: https://community.dynatrace.com/community/display/DOCDT65/AppMon+Reference

Measure

Measurement Frequency

How is that read and configured?

Measurement Storage

How is that stored?

Aggregation

Events captured for a Measure are aggregated into a measurement per 10 seconds interval. Each measurement can be aggregated as follows:

• average - average of all event values per interval
• minimum - retain the minimum encountered value per interval
• maximum - retain the maximum encountered value per interval
• count - retain the event count per interval.
• sum - calculate the sum of all event values per interval.

This is an example of how aggregation can be configured for a JMX measure.

Dashboard

A dashboard is a UI element that permits aggregation of diagnostic data of of different kinds.

Dynatrace provides rich client and web dashboards.

Dashlet

Chart Dashlet

• https://community.dynatrace.com/community/display/DOCDT65/Chart+Dashlet

Chart Resolution

The resolution dictates how a chart represents detailed data. The maximum resolution for live data is 10 seconds.

JMX Support

Dynatrace and JMX

Sensor

A sensor is a piece of code that is injected into the monitored applications at certain points to extract the relevant data.

Other Definitions

• PMI - Performance Monitoring Infrastructure