From the AEM point of view, no extra monitoring/integration functionality is made available whether you use SolarWinds or Dynatrace. The decision on which tool to use depends on what features that specific tool offers.

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Please take a look at this document for a start:AEM 6.x | Performance Tuning Tips If you still notice performance degradation, please see this document on how to debug these issues:Common critical AEM issues

This is not stored as a property in the JCR, rather it's a calculated field depending on whether the node has a valid config or not. If it has a valid config then the calculation figures that it's not inheriting. If it has no valid config then it ascends the tree (to the parent then grandparent, etc...) until it finds a valid config and it inherits from it.The logic for this can be found in this jsp code:/libs/cq/cloudserviceconfigs/components/configurations/configurations.jspThe function of imp...