What can you exclude from host monitoring in Dynatrace settings?

In Dynatrace, the ability to exclude certain elements from host monitoring is essential for optimizing performance and resource utilization. Disks and Network Traffic can indeed be excluded from host monitoring settings. This is particularly useful in scenarios where monitoring every aspect of the host may lead to unnecessary overhead or where specific performance metrics related to disks and network activity are deemed irrelevant for the analysis being performed.

Excluding disks from monitoring can help focus performance metrics on application-level issues rather than being bogged down by storage performance, which might not be the primary concern. Similarly, excluding network traffic can reduce the volume of data collected, making it easier to analyze significant metrics without extraneous noise from network performance.

Other options such as applications and services, database services and custom events, and infrastructure and extension events represent elements critical to application monitoring and analysis. Excluding these could undermine the ability to diagnose performance issues effectively, as they are fundamental components of the application ecosystem in Dynatrace.