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Microsoft Exchange Server

Monitor your Microsoft Exchange mail server and calendaring server.

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Overview

This Dynatrace extensions allows you to monitor your Microsoft Exchange Server. It enables full observability for your mail and calendar server. It is highly flexible, and can be easily configured to meet specific requirements.

This is intended for users, who:

  • Want to monitor Microsoft Exchange Servers
  • Improve Exchange Server performance and health
  • Detect potential security breaches

This enables you to:

  • Enable alerting based on detected anomalies
  • Track events reported by MS Exchange server
  • Alert on anomalies leading to performance issues

Supported Distributions

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016+

(currently only on-premises deployments are supported.)

Collected metrics:

Messages:

  • Messages sent
  • Messages sent/s
  • Bytes sent
  • Bytes sent/s
  • Messages received
  • Messages received/s
  • Bytes received
  • Bytes received/s
  • Rejected messages

Queue messages:

  • Active mailbox delivery queue
  • Active non SMTP delivery queue
  • External active remote delivery queue
  • All external remote delivery queues
  • Internal active remote delivery queue
  • All internal remote delivery queues
  • Poison queue
  • Mailbox retry delivery queues
  • Non SMTP retry delivery queues
  • Submission queue
  • Expired messages in submission queue
  • Deffered messages in submission queue
  • Completed items
  • Completed items/s
  • Queued items
  • Queued items/s
  • Expired queued items
  • Completed messages
  • Completed messages/s
  • Delayed messages
  • Delayed messages/s
  • Queued messages
  • Queued messages total
  • Number of queued messages per second
  • Submitted messages
  • Submitted messages/s

Compatibility information

MS Exchange 2013 and 2016+

Details

This extension is built on top of the new Extension Framework.

The Extension package contains:

  • WMI DataSource configuration,
  • Dashboard template,
  • Unified Analysis screen template,
  • topology definition and entity extraction rules.

Metrics collected:**

Messages:

  • Messages sent
  • Messages sent/s
  • Messages received
  • Messages received/s
  • Rejected messages

Mailboxes:

  • Bytes sent
  • Bytes sent/s
  • Bytes received
  • Bytes received/s

Queues:

  • Active mailbox delivery queue
  • Active non SMTP delivery queue
  • External active remote delivery queue
  • All external remote delivery queues
  • Internal active remote delivery queue
  • All internal remote delivery queues
  • Poison queue
  • Mailbox retry delivery queues
  • Non SMTP retry delivery queues
  • Submission queue length
  • Expired messages in submission queue
  • Deffered messages in submission queue
  • Completed items
  • Completed items/s
  • Queued items
  • Queued items/s
  • Expired queued items
  • Completed messages
  • Completed messages/s
  • Delayed messages
  • Delayed messages/s
  • Queued messages
  • Queued messages total
  • Queued messages/s
  • Submitted messages
  • Submitted messages/s

Log events reported:

  • management logs
  • general MS Exchange events stored

Get started

Simply activate the extension in your environment. Please check out the documentation page with detailed instructions.

Permissions

In addition to the requirements specified in the above documentation link, if your user is not an administrator on the Exchange server they must be added to the following groups:

  • Performance Monitor Users
  • Event Log Readers
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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included
screen injections
1
screen layout
3
metric metadata
35
screen chart groups
5
screen properties
3
generic relationship
5
generic type
3
alerts
7
screen entities lists
4
dashboards
2

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.sent.total--
Messages sent/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.sent.persecNumber of messages sent by the send connector each secondPerSecond
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.received.total--
Messages received/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.received.persecNumber of messages received by the SMTP server each secondPerSecond
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.refused.forsize--
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.sent.total--
Bytes sent/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.sent.persecNumber of bytes sent per secondBytePerSecond
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.received.total--
Bytes received/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.received.persecNumber of bytes received per secondBytePerSecond
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
Active mailbox delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.mailbox.lengthLength of active mailbox delivery queueCount
Active non SMTP delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.nonsmtp.lengthLength of active non SMTP delivery queueCount
External active remote delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.active.lengthLength of external active remote delivery queueCount
All external remote delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.total.lengthAggregated length of all of external remote delivery queuesCount
Internal active remote delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.active.lengthLength of internal active remote delivery queueCount
All internal remote delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.total.lengthAggregated length of all of internal remote delivery queuesCount
Poison queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.poison.lengthLength of poison queueCount
Mailbox retry delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.mailbox.lengthLength of mailbox retry delivery queuesCount
Non SMTP retry delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.nonsmtp.lengthLength of non SMTP retry delivery queuesCount
Submission queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.lengthLength of submission queueCount
Expired messages in submission queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.expiredNumber of expired messages in submission queueCount
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
Active mailbox delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.mailbox.lengthLength of active mailbox delivery queueCount
Active non SMTP delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.nonsmtp.lengthLength of active non SMTP delivery queueCount
External active remote delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.active.lengthLength of external active remote delivery queueCount
All external remote delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.total.lengthAggregated length of all of external remote delivery queuesCount
Internal active remote delivery queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.active.lengthLength of internal active remote delivery queueCount
All internal remote delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.total.lengthAggregated length of all of internal remote delivery queuesCount
Poison queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.poison.lengthLength of poison queueCount
Mailbox retry delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.mailbox.lengthLength of mailbox retry delivery queuesCount
Non SMTP retry delivery queuescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.nonsmtp.lengthLength of non SMTP retry delivery queuesCount
Submission queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.lengthLength of submission queueCount
Deffered messages in submission queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.defferedNumber of deffered messages in submission queueCount
Expired messages in submission queuecom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.expiredNumber of expired messages in submission queueCount
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.completed.total--
Completed items/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.completed.persecNumber of completed items per secondPerSecond
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.queued.total--
Queued items/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.queued.persecNumber of queued items per secondPerSecond
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.queued.expired--
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.completed.total--
Completed messages/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.completed.persecNumber of completed messages per secondPerSecond
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.delayed.total--
Delayed messages/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.delayed.persecNumber of delayed messages per secondPerSecond
Queued messagescom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.queuedNumber of queued messagesCount
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.queued.total--
Queued messages/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.queued.persecNumber of queued messages per secondPerSecond
-com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.submitted.total--
Submitted messages/scom.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.submitted.persecNumber of submitted messages per secondPerSecond

Full version history

To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.
ReleaseDate

Full version history

  • No changes to functionality
  • Newly signed version to fix certificate issue introduced in OneAgent and ActiveGate 1.289

Full version history

Updated WMI queries from Delivery to Transport classes.

Full version history

Adds Unified Analysis Screen links between Host and MS Exchange

  • requires min. Dynatrace version 1.233
  • new charts show up at the top of both UA Screens
  • leverages UAScreen Injection mechanism

Full version history

  • fixed typos in metric display names

Full version history

fixed mailbox list component visualization on Unified Analysis screen

Full version history

  • added support for log file events

Full version history

No release notes

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