What type of data does the NTP extension collect in Dynatrace?

The NTP (Network Time Protocol) extension in Dynatrace specifically collects time offset metrics. This type of data is crucial for ensuring that systems maintain accurate and synchronized time across different servers and applications in a distributed environment. Accurate time synchronization is essential for logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting purposes as it helps correlate events that happen across different systems.

While CPU usage metrics, network traffic metrics, and memory usage metrics are essential forms of data collected in other aspects of application and infrastructure monitoring, they are not within the scope of what the NTP extension is designed to track. The focus of the NTP extension is singularly on how much the time on a device differs from a reference time source, which can help detect and resolve time-related discrepancies that might affect the performance and reliability of applications.