Dynatrace Associate flashcards
Dynatrace Associate · Build recall with a focused review session.
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- Grail
- Dynatrace's data lakehouse that stores metrics, logs, traces, events, and business events; it is queried with DQL and backs dashboards and notebooks.
- Smartscape
- A near-real-time topology model of monitored entities and their dependencies, built from observed traffic and deployment metadata to support root-cause analysis.
- OneAgent
- A Dynatrace agent installed on hosts that auto-instruments processes and collects metrics, traces, logs, and topology data for full-stack observability.
- ActiveGate
- A Dynatrace component that routes data, proxies connections, and can host private synthetic monitors, extensions, and network-zone traffic between OneAgents and the cluster.
- Davis AI
- Dynatrace's AI engine that combines causal, predictive, and generative techniques to detect problems, correlate events, and identify likely root causes.
- Management zone
- A rule-based filter that selects entities and data for scoped access, analysis, and alerting; tags and entity properties commonly define its membership.
- Policy boundaries
- Constraints attached to IAM policies that limit which resources the policy can affect, preventing a group's permissions from applying to all entities.
- PurePath
- Dynatrace's end-to-end distributed trace that follows a request across services and tiers, capturing method-level timing and call relationships for analysis.
- Service detection
- Rules that determine how processes are grouped into services, based on technology, process groups, and request boundaries, affecting service-level metrics and topology.
- Apdex formula
- Apdex equals satisfied requests plus half of tolerating requests, divided by total requests; satisfied is at or below T and tolerating is up to 4T.
- Request attributes
- Extracted request or response values, such as URLs, headers, or method names, used to filter, segment, and name requests in multidimensional analysis.
- Service-level objective
- A target for a service metric, such as availability or latency, with an error budget; SLOs drive reporting and alerting on service health.
- Business events
- Structured records representing business transactions or outcomes, ingested into Grail and queried with DQL to connect business metrics to observability data.
- Distributed tracing
- Propagation of trace context across service calls so spans from different services share a trace ID and can be reconstructed as one request path.
- Process group
- A logical grouping of identical processes detected across hosts; it aggregates process-level metrics while process group instances represent the process on each host.
- Infrastructure monitoring mode
- A OneAgent mode that monitors host CPU, memory, disk, and network without deep code-level instrumentation, used where full-stack monitoring is not needed.
- Kubernetes monitoring
- Combines the Dynatrace Operator, Kubernetes API metadata, and events to map clusters, nodes, workloads, pods, and containers into the entity model.
- Network zone
- A configuration that controls which ActiveGates OneAgents use for traffic routing, enabling network segmentation and private connectivity.
- Maintenance window
- A scheduled period that suppresses problem alerts for selected entities or management zones during planned changes, while still collecting monitoring data.
- Cloud integration
- A connection to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud that ingests resource metrics and metadata; tags map cloud resources to Dynatrace entities for analysis.
- Real User Monitoring
- Captures actual user sessions through a JavaScript or mobile agent, measuring user actions, errors, web vitals, and experience across real traffic.
- Synthetic monitor
- A scripted or protocol check that runs from public or private locations on a schedule to test availability and performance independent of real users.
- User action
- A logical interaction in an application, such as a page load or click, that RUM measures for duration, errors, and Apdex.
- Web vitals
- Core experience metrics including Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift, used to assess loading, responsiveness, and visual stability.
- Session replay
- A reconstruction of a real user's session that shows interactions and page changes; privacy settings mask sensitive content before capture.
- Private synthetic location
- A synthetic monitoring location hosted on an ActiveGate inside a private network, used to test internal applications not reachable from the public internet.
- Runtime Vulnerability Analytics
- A Dynatrace capability that uses OneAgent runtime data to identify third-party and code-level vulnerabilities in running processes and assess their risk.
- Runtime Application Protection
- A Dynatrace capability that detects attempted attacks against running applications and can block them when blocking mode is enabled.
- Security problem
- An aggregated security finding that groups related vulnerabilities or attacks on affected entities, with severity and remediation status for prioritization.
- Attack detection mode
- A runtime protection setting that records and alerts on detected attacks without blocking requests; blocking mode must be enabled to stop exploits.
- Vulnerability status
- The lifecycle state of a finding, such as open, resolved, or muted, used to track remediation and suppress accepted risks from active reporting.
- Davis security score
- A risk score that prioritizes vulnerabilities using factors such as exposure, data sensitivity, and likelihood of exploitation, helping teams focus remediation.