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0. Course overview
2. Cluster
SaaS vs Managed
What is the playground?
Accessing the playground
SaaS vs Managed Interface
Cluster / environment organization
Getting Started with the Dynatrace Interface
New page vs classic page
Dashboard vs Classic Dashboard - Dashboards vs Dashboards classic
How to know the status of a host, service at a glance...
All technologies present on your cluster - Technologies and processes
Add/remove cluster features - extensions - extensions manager
Track your DDU consumption - Davis Data Units
3. Data collection methods
Collection methods - oneagent - opentelemetry - Prometheus exporter ...
Oneagent
Oneagent installation - Hostgroup - tags - owners - properties
Reconfiguring oneagent with the oneagentctl cli or via deployment status
Oneagent in the docker / kubernetes world
Oneagent health
How to know the status of a host, service at a glance...
Correlation between observability pillars - logs, metrics and traces
Lab - Collection
4. Configuration as Code
Automate the deployment of your configurations with Monaco or Terraform
Understanding and manipulating different Dynatrace APIs
Introduction to Monaco
Create and manipulate tokens: example of Monaco tokens
Create an OAuth client if you have a SaaS subscription
[CI/CD] Build your own Docker image for Monaco - Github action
Introduction to dynatrace simply smarter
Export, Create, delete... your first configuration with Monaco
[CI/CD] Pipeline to automatically execute Monaco - Gitlab CI/CD
Understanding and manipulating different Dynatrace APIs
Introduction to Monaco
Create and manipulate tokens: example of Monaco tokens
Create an OAuth client if you have a SaaS subscription
[CI/CD] Build your own Docker image for Monaco - Github action
Introduction to dynatrace simply smarter
Export, Create, delete... your first configuration with Monaco
[CI/CD] Pipeline to automatically execute Monaco - Gitlab CI/CD
6. Track your application versions - Release monitoring
Track the application versions deployed on your infrastructure with Dynatrace
Introduction
Automatically create problems in your solutions - Issue tracking
Find information entered in your kubernetes deployment - release
Event management - API - events - release monitoring - CI/CD
Introduction
Automatically create problems in your solutions - Issue tracking
Find information entered in your kubernetes deployment - release
Event management - API - events - release monitoring - CI/CD
7. Real user monitoring
In this subsection of DEM (Digital Experience Monitoring) we will see how to use Dynatrace to monitor our visitors' journey and identify and fix problems
Real user monitoring without agent installation
How to find, modify and delete a created application
Real user monitoring of a PaaS application
Real user monitoring via a browser extension
How to verify if instrumentation is properly in place
Real user monitoring without agent installation
How to find, modify and delete a created application
Real user monitoring of a PaaS application
Real user monitoring via a browser extension
How to verify if instrumentation is properly in place
8. Monitoring with robots at a defined frequency
Monitor the proper functioning of your application with robots (synthetic monitoring). You can create advanced paths with authentication, certificate monitoring...
Introduction to synthetic
Create an HTTP monitor
Modify an HTTP monitor
Browser monitor
Browser monitor - using javascript
Browser monitor - CSS selector
Add authentication to your scenarios - credential vault
Introduction to synthetic
Create an HTTP monitor
Modify an HTTP monitor
Browser monitor
Browser monitor - using javascript
Browser monitor - CSS selector
Add authentication to your scenarios - credential vault
9. Visualize and analyze your user experience (DEM)
DEM
Frontend application
Apdex (Application Performance Index) vs Core Web Vitals
User session
Service flow
Distributed traces
Analyze callers - Application Databases - backtrace
Multidimensional analysis
Actions and events - User session query language - USQL
Build your first USQL query - SQL like - USQL
Understand and optimize your users' journeys - funnel - USQL
Frontend application
Apdex (Application Performance Index) vs Core Web Vitals
User session
Service flow
Distributed traces
Analyze callers - Application Databases - backtrace
Multidimensional analysis
Actions and events - User session query language - USQL
Build your first USQL query - SQL like - USQL
Understand and optimize your users' journeys - funnel - USQL
10. Metrics management - Metrics
11. Problem management
In this section we will see how to identify and find the problems generated by the different dynatrace applications. We will also see how to create notification profiles...
Problems application
Auto-remediation: self healing
The content of a problem page
Install the mobile application to receive alerts - install mobile
Problems application
Auto-remediation: self healing
The content of a problem page
Install the mobile application to receive alerts - install mobile
12. Other parameters
In this section we will show you how to adjust the configuration of your dynatrace cluster
Owners / ownerships
Reconfigure a oneagent to define the machine's owner
Maintenance Windows
Resource renaming - host naming - process group naming - request naming
Key requests
Apply tags - Automatically applied tags - Manually applied tags
Owners / ownerships
Reconfigure a oneagent to define the machine's owner
Maintenance Windows
Resource renaming - host naming - process group naming - request naming
Key requests
Apply tags - Automatically applied tags - Manually applied tags
13. Service level objectives - SLO - SLI - SLA - SRE
14. Manipulation of dynatrace applications
In this section we will present how to find applications and in particular cases how to add and remove applications/extensions.
Smartcape topology
Sub-applications
Analyze your visitors' session as if you were there - waterfall analysis
Display all containers present on the cluster - containers
View and analyze a kubernetes cluster - kubernetes
Browse data collected in a subscription - Lambda Function - AWS
Monitor network usage - Host networking
Smartcape topology
Sub-applications
Analyze your visitors' session as if you were there - waterfall analysis
Display all containers present on the cluster - containers
View and analyze a kubernetes cluster - kubernetes
Browse data collected in a subscription - Lambda Function - AWS
Monitor network usage - Host networking
15. Grail - data lakehouse built for observability data
Single unified storage solution for logs, metrics, traces, events, etc. All data stored in Grail is interconnected within a real-time model...
Introduction to Grail
Browse and search your observability data - Logs and events - Grail
Build your first DQL queries - Grail
Enrich your DQL queries and add them to a notebook - Notebooks - Grail
Enrich your DQL queries - add them to a dashboard - Dashboards - Grail
Best practices for building high-performance DQL queries - Grail
Introduction to Grail
Browse and search your observability data - Logs and events - Grail
Build your first DQL queries - Grail
Enrich your DQL queries and add them to a notebook - Notebooks - Grail
Enrich your DQL queries - add them to a dashboard - Dashboards - Grail
Best practices for building high-performance DQL queries - Grail
16. Permissions management
Permissions management refers to all mechanisms for controlling who has access to which resources and what actions they can perform (read, write, delete, etc.). It is essential to ensure the security, confidentiality, and proper governance of computer systems.
17. To go further
18. Certification
You can go further with our certification support program.
Associate
Advanced Observability Specialist
DEM and Business Analytics Specialist
Implementation Professional
Administration Professional
Associate
Advanced Observability Specialist
DEM and Business Analytics Specialist
Implementation Professional
Administration Professional
Cas concrets & Applications
End-to-end application monitoring
Monitor the entire application lifecycle to identify bottlenecks.
Digital Experience Management (DEM)
Track real user interaction with your web and mobile applications.
Logs and events analysis with Grail
Centralize and query system logs in a unified way with DQL.
Deployment as code (Monaco)
Automate and version the configuration of your Dynatrace environments.
Cloud infrastructure monitoring
Deep integration with AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes for resource tracking.
Auto-remediation and CI/CD integration
Trigger automated actions upon problem detection by Davis AI.
Questions Fréquentes (FAQ)
It is a complete observability platform based on artificial intelligence.
SaaS is hosted by Dynatrace, Managed is installed on your own infrastructure.
A unique agent installed on your hosts to automatically collect all metrics and traces.
Davis AI analyzes billions of dependencies to find the exact root cause of a problem.
Dynatrace's data lakehouse designed specifically for unified observability data.
Yes, Dynatrace integrates perfectly with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
The 'Monitoring as Code' tool to manage your Dynatrace configurations as code.
Yes, with synthetic monitors (Synthetic Monitoring).
Thanks to DDUs (Davis Data Units) that track the consumption of different metrics.
Yes, there are several levels like Associate, Advanced Observability, etc.