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Accelerate resolution of network issues with AI-powered event reporting based on SNMP traps

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Date Published
Author
Dariusz Glugla
Word Count
1,159
Language
American English
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Summary

The Dynatrace SNMP Traps extension enhances IT infrastructure monitoring by allowing IT admins, SREs, and ITOps teams to efficiently handle complexities and data volumes associated with modern IT environments. By leveraging SNMP protocols and integrating with Dynatrace's Davis AI, this extension facilitates advanced network observability and proactive alerting for critical events, such as interface state changes and sensor alerts. It provides an overview dashboard that displays the frequency and nature of trap events, enabling teams to quickly identify and address root causes. The extension supports configuration for tracking SNMP traps, offering features like intelligent alerting to prevent "trap storms" and ensure prompt responses to anomalies. Additionally, Dynatrace aims to evolve its network observability capabilities through a generic topology model, which will help visualize device dependencies and relationships, thereby enhancing infrastructure health insights and enabling effective root cause analysis. Feedback from users is encouraged to refine and adapt the solution to meet diverse network monitoring needs.