Backstage Dynatrace plugins

Backstage has become a popular developer portal for building an Internal Development Platform (IDP). With the focus on various developer-oriented capabilities, the centralized Backstage Software Catalog s a fundamental element in Backstage. It allows you to manage all your software like microservices, libraries, data pipelines, websites, machine learning models, and others. Backstage restores order to your microservices and infrastructure and enables your product teams to ship high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.

Next to centrally managing software components, developers want to get real-time monitoring data and identify problems or security vulnerabilities for their deployments with one click. The Backstage Dynatrace plugin brings this information to the developers by providing overview tables with context-rich information in Backstage. As a result, they get an overview of the service performance and important indicators like problem counts or security vulnerabilities. Smart deep links lead the developer to Dynatrace, where they can conduct a deeper analysis and root cause investigation to avoid overloading this overview.

Provide developers with the necessary observability and security insights to improve and operate their components.

The guides to installing, integrating, configuring, and running the Dynatrace Backstage plugins are explained and maintained here:

• Getting started with Backstage Dynatrace plugin for Managed
• Getting started with Backstage Dynatrace plugins (for SaaS)

The Backstage Dynatrace plugins are subdivided into two categories, with the second being the preferred approach:

Backstage Dynatrace plugin for Managed:

• Display service-related problems and synthetic results
• Based on Dynatrace v2 API

Backstage Dynatrace plugins (for SaaS):

• Kubernetes insights as default with context-rich deep linking
• Multi-environment support
• DQL-based approach to fetch any observability and security data
• Table representation of query results