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Discovery & Coverage in Dynatrace

Find unmonitored hosts and technologies and close blind spots.

1. What is Discovery & Coverage for? #

Find unmonitored hosts and technologies and close blind spots.

The principle #

Discovery & Coverage measures monitoring coverage: which hosts and technologies are not, or poorly, monitored. The app relies on Smartscape and suggests prioritized actions.

Discovery & Coverage : Clouds → Smartscape → Gaps → Actions

2. Key features #

What the app offers.

Overview #

FeatureRole
Host coverageAWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V clouds; Install OneAgents action based on the gap
Discovery findingsDQL rules spotting important technologies and checking their monitoring
RemédiationSettings applied after confirmation
Foundation & DiscoveryLightweight OneAgent mode for broad discovery

3. Getting started #

First steps.

Step by step #

  1. Open Host coverage and connect unmonitored clouds.
  2. Install OneAgent on priority hosts.
  3. Move to Discovery findings for depth.
  4. Apply the suggested remediations.

Prerequisites #

  • Permissions to read entities and write settings (see the documentation).
Breadth then depth. First cover all hosts, even in lightweight mode, then go deeper on critical technologies.

Sources #

From the official documentation consulted in November 2026: labels and availability change with platform versions.

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