Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of Dynatrace environments and the Dynatrace PowerPack:

What is Dynatrace?

Dynatrace is an application performance management and monitoring platform for programs running on-premises (Dynatrace Managed) and in the cloud (Dynatrace SaaS). Dynatrace enables you to monitor various component types within your environment, such as applications, hosts, and services, and analyze the data collected through tools such as dashboards and reports.

What Does the Dynatrace PowerPack Monitor?

To monitor Dynatrace Managed environments using SL1, you must install the Dynatrace PowerPack. This PowerPack enables you to discover, model, and collect data about Dynatrace components.

The Dynatrace PowerPack includes:

  • Dynamic Applications to discover and monitor Dynatrace component devices, including:
  • Applications
  • Hosts
  • Services

  • Device Classes for each of the Dynatrace components that the Dynatrace PowerPack can monitor
  • Event Policies that are triggered when Dynatrace component devices meet certain status criteria
  • A sample SOAP/XML Credential that you can use to create your own Dynatrace Credential
  • A Device Template that aligns Dynamic Applications to the Dynatrace Environment virtual device and enables you to discover component devices for that environment
  • Device Dashboards that display information about Dynatrace component devices

The Dynatrace PowerPack can monitor either Dynatrace on-premises or SaaS environments.

Installing the Dynatrace PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Dynatrace PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack. For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.