ActiveGate is essential for monitoring which environment types?

ActiveGate plays a critical role in monitoring virtualized and cloud environments as it serves as a bridge between the Dynatrace monitoring platform and the monitored entities in those environments. It enables seamless communication and data collection from cloud services and virtual systems, which are often spread across different infrastructure platforms.

In cloud environments, ActiveGate helps in capturing and forwarding metrics, properties, and logs from various containers and services, ensuring that all critical data is reported back to the Dynatrace platform for analysis. This capability is essential for achieving comprehensive observability and maintaining optimal performance in these environments, as they often utilize dynamic scaling and orchestration.

Furthermore, in virtualized environments, such as those using VMware or other hypervisors, ActiveGate facilitates the monitoring of resource utilization, performance metrics, and application dependencies, allowing teams to gain insights into their virtualization infrastructure's health and efficiency.

In contrast, home networks and external public services do not typically fall under the purview of ActiveGate's monitoring capabilities, as they are not the primary focus for enterprise-level observability solutions provided by Dynatrace.