Dynatrace Sessions

Dynatrace gives you detailed monitoring of applications, infrastructure, and user experiences.

This guide helps you ask the right questions to keep your services running at peak performance and troubleshoot any issues that arise.

Key areas of focus

Below are some useful questions to ask when managing your Dynatrace setup:

General monitoring

• What are the current performance metrics for my key applications?
• Which services are experiencing the most errors or slowdowns?
• How is the CPU and memory usage across my hosts?

Application performance

• Which transactions are taking the longest to complete?
• Are there any services showing high failure rates?
• What are the slowest web requests in my environment?

Infrastructure health

• What is the overall health of my servers and hosts?
• Are there any hosts with high resource usage (CPU, memory)?
• Can I see the status of all databases connected to my environment?

User experience

• Are there any regions where users are experiencing higher latency?
• What percentage of users have experienced errors while interacting with my services?

Alerts & incidents

• What are the most recent alerts triggered in Dynatrace?
• Are there any incidents that remain unresolved?
• Can I get a history of the most common alerts over the last 30 days?

Dashboards & visualizations

• Can I view the key metrics across all my environments?
• How can I customize my Dynatrace dashboard to focus on application performance?
• What are the most important widgets to monitor in my dashboard?