What distinguishes Environment ActiveGates from Cluster ActiveGates?

Environment ActiveGates are designed to play a crucial role in tenant-specific tasks. This means they handle data and operations that are specific to the configurations and needs of individual environments or tenants within a broader monitoring setup. Each Environment ActiveGate efficiently processes and manages data for its associated environment, ensuring that the metrics, logs, and performance data relevant to that environment are collected and sent to the Dynatrace platform.

In contrast, Cluster ActiveGates operate at a broader level, managing communication across multiple environments or the overall cluster. They handle tasks such as data aggregation and forwarding from multiple sources within the cluster, rather than focusing on tenant-specific tasks.

Understanding the distinction between these two types of ActiveGates is essential for optimizing monitoring setups in multi-tenant environments and ensuring that each tenant's needs are addressed without interference from others. This is particularly important in scenarios where performance metrics and application monitoring need to stay isolated per tenant.