Microsoft Hyper-V is a crucial virtualization platform for large IT environments, enabling operating system isolation, server consolidation, and environment testing to enhance scalability and operational efficiency while reducing costs. Despite its advantages, managing Hyper-V presents challenges such as complex virtual networking, resource allocation, and maintaining system health within a virtual environment. Dynatrace addresses these challenges with a new Hyper-V extension that provides comprehensive observability into Hyper-V's virtualization layer, aiding in performance optimization, capacity planning, proactive issue detection, and troubleshooting. This extension offers a complete visibility solution for the Windows ecosystem, allowing IT operations teams to gain deep insights into application performance and infrastructure utilization, thereby ensuring robust and reliable IT infrastructure management.