What are host groups in Dynatrace OneAgent monitoring?

Host groups in Dynatrace OneAgent monitoring serve as a way to organize and manage sets of servers collectively. This grouping facilitates configuration management tasks, allowing administrators to apply settings, policies, and monitoring configurations consistently across multiple servers.

By utilizing host groups, teams can streamline processes such as scaling, updating, and monitoring, making it easier to manage large environments. They can be particularly useful in environments where servers perform similar roles or functions, enabling centralized oversight and operations.

The other options refer to different entities within an IT environment. Individual servers denote single instances without the context of group operations, network devices refer to infrastructure elements not typically monitored by OneAgent, and virtual machines, while they can be part of host groups, do not encompass the broader organizational aspect that host groups provide.