Microsoft Exchange ServerMicrosoft Exchange Server
Monitor your Microsoft Exchange mail server and calendaring server.
Extension
- Product information
- Release notes
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
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 name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.sent.total | - | - |
| Messages sent/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.sent.persec | Number of messages sent by the send connector each second | PerSecond |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.received.total | - | - |
| Messages received/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.received.persec | Number of messages received by the SMTP server each second | PerSecond |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.messages.refused.forsize | - | - |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.sent.total | - | - |
| Bytes sent/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.sent.persec | Number of bytes sent per second | BytePerSecond |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.received.total | - | - |
| Bytes received/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.mailbox.bytes.received.persec | Number of bytes received per second | BytePerSecond |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active mailbox delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.mailbox.length | Length of active mailbox delivery queue | Count |
| Active non SMTP delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.nonsmtp.length | Length of active non SMTP delivery queue | Count |
| External active remote delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.active.length | Length of external active remote delivery queue | Count |
| All external remote delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.total.length | Aggregated length of all of external remote delivery queues | Count |
| Internal active remote delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.active.length | Length of internal active remote delivery queue | Count |
| All internal remote delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.total.length | Aggregated length of all of internal remote delivery queues | Count |
| Poison queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.poison.length | Length of poison queue | Count |
| Mailbox retry delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.mailbox.length | Length of mailbox retry delivery queues | Count |
| Non SMTP retry delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.nonsmtp.length | Length of non SMTP retry delivery queues | Count |
| Submission queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.length | Length of submission queue | Count |
| Expired messages in submission queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.expired | Number of expired messages in submission queue | Count |
| Metric name | Metric key | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active mailbox delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.mailbox.length | Length of active mailbox delivery queue | Count |
| Active non SMTP delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.active.nonsmtp.length | Length of active non SMTP delivery queue | Count |
| External active remote delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.active.length | Length of external active remote delivery queue | Count |
| All external remote delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.external.total.length | Aggregated length of all of external remote delivery queues | Count |
| Internal active remote delivery queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.active.length | Length of internal active remote delivery queue | Count |
| All internal remote delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.internal.total.length | Aggregated length of all of internal remote delivery queues | Count |
| Poison queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.poison.length | Length of poison queue | Count |
| Mailbox retry delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.mailbox.length | Length of mailbox retry delivery queues | Count |
| Non SMTP retry delivery queues | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.retry.nonsmtp.length | Length of non SMTP retry delivery queues | Count |
| Submission queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.length | Length of submission queue | Count |
| Deffered messages in submission queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.deffered | Number of deffered messages in submission queue | Count |
| Expired messages in submission queue | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.submission.expired | Number of expired messages in submission queue | Count |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.completed.total | - | - |
| Completed items/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.completed.persec | Number of completed items per second | PerSecond |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.queued.total | - | - |
| Queued items/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.queued.persec | Number of queued items per second | PerSecond |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.items.queued.expired | - | - |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.completed.total | - | - |
| Completed messages/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.completed.persec | Number of completed messages per second | PerSecond |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.delayed.total | - | - |
| Delayed messages/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.delayed.persec | Number of delayed messages per second | PerSecond |
| Queued messages | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.queued | Number of queued messages | Count |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.queued.total | - | - |
| Queued messages/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.queued.persec | Number of queued messages per second | PerSecond |
| - | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.submitted.total | - | - |
| Submitted messages/s | com.dynatrace.extension.ms-exchange.queue.messages.submitted.persec | Number of submitted messages per second | PerSecond |
Full version history
To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.
ReleaseDate
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- No changes to functionality
- Newly signed version to fix certificate issue introduced in OneAgent and ActiveGate 1.289
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Updated WMI queries from Delivery to Transport classes.
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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
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- fixed typos in metric display names
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fixed mailbox list component visualization on Unified Analysis screen
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- added support for log file events
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