Dynatrace & AWS: Plug-n-play for the modern cloud

If you rely on the AWS Cloud to run an awesome business, this one here is for you.

Let me assume that one of the biggest reasons you chose the AWS Cloud is because, with all of its resources and capabilities, this platform lets you deploy your solutions where your customers are. Not having to worry about the infrastructure is a thing of beauty in itself — for us too.

However, in this ever-expanding, complex environment it’s becoming impossible for most of the monitoring tools out there —let alone humans — to find performance problems. Does the monitoring alert tell you about the impact that the threshold violation is having on the user experience of your customers?

I collected three monitoring super powers in Dynatrace designed to optimize your use of the AWS Cloud — and make you feel like an AWS productivity wizard.

1. Automatic discovery of dynamic instances

Dynatrace auto-detects AWS resources as well as application services and draws a real-time map of the dependencies between your applications, services, processes, and AWS infrastructure components. With no manual configuration, your entire application topology is visualized in an interactive infographic. As simple as that.

Auto-discover your whole infrastructure within minutes

2. Full-stack AWS monitoring

After discovering your cloud environment, Dynatrace starts to collect performance data about all your different AWS resources. On a single dashboard you will see key metrics about your:

• EC2 instances
• EBS volumes
• S3 buckets
• RDS instances
• Amazon DynamoDB tables
• Elastic Load Balancers
• AWS Lambda functions

For example, it’s super easy to discover which Availability Zone an EC2 instance runs in and what applications and services are hosted on top of it.

All your AWS resources on a single dashboard

3. Smart problem notification and root-cause analysis

And last but not least, the magic: Dynatrace artificial intelligence automatically pinpoints the reasons underlying performance issues.

When critical performance issues are discovered, you don’t have to manually interpret dozens of data sources to know the root cause. Dynatrace provides a single problem notification that identifies the root cause of the problem — an EC2 instance running low on disk space, for example — and see the precise number of affected user actions. What you get is a clear infographic of how one problem caused another one, and you can also replay the problem evolution to understand what happened when.

This lets you cut down your mean time to repair by 95%, so you can focus on what’s most important: running your awesome business!

Automatic root-cause analysis is a unique Dynatrace capability that’s changing the lives of operations teams