The dashboards discussed here are classic dashboards created using the dashboarding functionality integrated with previous Dynatrace.
Tiles you can add to your dashboards are described below.
To make multiple similar tiles, start with one good tile, clone it, and then edit the cloned tiles.
To make multiple similar dashboards, each with the same tiles, start with one good dashboard, clone it, and then edit the cloned dashboards/tiles.
Use visualization tiles to create visual representations of Data Explorer queries that you can pin to your dashboards.
Dynatrace offers the following visualization types:
Interactivity of visualization tiles varies according to the type of visualization, but they generally share common capabilities.
Select Run query after you make a query change to see the results of the change.
Select different visualization types to see what works best for your query.
The selection of visual settings available depends on the query and visualization type. For details:
Some visualizations (for example, heatmaps) can display only one metric. To display a different metric in the visualization, select the letter next to the metric you want to visualize. In this example, we would change the selection from A (CPU usage %
) to B (Memory used %
).
Other visualizations (for example, tables) can display more than one metric. To change the selection of metrics to visualize, select the letters next to the metric names. In the above example, we would change the selection from A (CPU usage %
only) to both A and B (CPU usage %
and Memory used %
).
Use the context tiles (Header, Markdown, and Image) to explain your dashboard contents and add graphics such as company logos. This is particularly important if you're making dashboards to share with others.
Use a header tile to put a bold label over another tile.
Use one or more markdown tiles to customize and describe your dashboard: what it does, how to use it, and so on.
Limitations: 1,000 characters per markdown tile.
Markdown heading levels #
- ######
are supported.
Use ***
or ___
or ---
alone on one line to add a horizontal line separating sections of your tile.
Leave two spaces at the end of a line to force a line break.
Use **text**
or __text__
to display bold text.
You can create numbered (1.
) or bulleted (*
) markdown lists, or a mix of the two, with nesting.
If you have favorite Dynatrace pages and websites, you can add links to all of them from your dashboards.
A link consists of two parts:
[
and ]
. This is free-form text between two square brackets, such as [Dynatrace]
.(
and )
. There are two ways to define a target:
An absolute URL. For example, to link to:
https://www.example.com/
put the whole URL in parentheses
(https://www.example.com/)
to get a link definition like:
[Example](https://www.example.com/)
An anchor to a Dynatrace page (including other dashboards).
To get that anchor, navigate to the target page in Dynatrace and copy everything on the browser address line that follows the domain and slash.
If the full URL of the target page is:
https://myenvironment.live.dynatrace.com/ui/deploymentstatus/oneagents?gtf=-2h&gf=all
the anchor text is:
ui/deploymentstatus/oneagents?gtf=-2h&gf=all
and the full link specification is something like:
[My link to deployment status](ui/deploymentstatus/oneagents?gtf=-2h&gf=all)
Similarly, if you added this example to a markdown tile on one of your dashboards, the link would open the Dynatrace Hosts table:
[Hosts](#newhosts;gtf=-2h;gf=all)
Add images to your dashboards to improve their appearance and customize them for presentations.
Supported image file types: JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG, WEBP, TIFF, BMP, SVG
You can upload an image or point to it via URL.
Unlike other tile types, an image tile is not automatically refreshed. You need to refresh a dashboard manually to update the image tiles on that dashboard.
To upload an image and display it on your dashboard
To point to an image via URL and display it on your dashboard, you first need to add the URL to the allowlist, and then you can refer to that URL from an image tile.
Add the URL to the allowlist
https://example.com/images/
to allow any image whose URL starts with https://example.com/images/
, such ashttps://example.com/images/image-x.jpg
and
https://example.com/images/my-picture.svg
https://example.com/images/my-image-file-name.jpg
to allow only that imageAdd the image tile
Example dashboard with images:
Displays the number of hosts (operating system instances, whether physical and virtual) in your environment compared to the number of hosts in your environment that are currently affected by problems. Each host instance equates to a Dynatrace OneAgent installed in your environment.
From a health tile (such as Host health, Service health, and Application health), where you see green and red elements (such as hosts, services, or applications), hover over any problematic (red) element to see the identity of the element.
To drill down to a problematic (red) element, select the red hexagon and then select the View… button. On this example Synthetic monitor health tile, we have selected a red element, which enabled the View test drilldown button for that element.
You can't drill down from a healthy (green) element. From any tile, however, you can select the menu in the upper-right corner of the tile and then select View details to display the relevant Dynatrace page for the tile. For example, View details from a Synthetic monitor health tile displays the Synthetic monitors table.
Displays network health metrics for traffic flowing through your monitored hosts. Shows current traffic volume and quality of communication of both new (Connectivity) and established sessions (Retransmissions).
Displays current network traffic flowing through your monitored hosts. Shows traffic volume, number of nodes (Talkers) exchanging network traffic, and number of nodes experiencing performance problems (Processes and Hosts).
Displays current number of Docker containers and images compared to last week, plus current number of Docker hosts.
Displays current basic indicators related to the virtualized infrastructure in your environment, including the number of VMs, migration events, and the corresponding trends, as well as the number of ESXi hosts (standalone or managed by attached vCenter servers) against the number of ESXi hosts in your environment that are currently affected by problems. If there are multiple vCenter or ESXi hosts attached, all gathered data can be aggregated or presented for a selected entity.
Displays quick insights and health indicators of three services running under your AWS account:
Displays an overview of all services monitored by Dynatrace, including the number of services experiencing performance degradation. This high-level visualization provides an easily digestible view, which makes it a great fit for management dashboards.
Depending on the selected timeframe, the tile shows:
From a health tile (such as Host health, Service health, and Application health), where you see green and red elements (such as hosts, services, or applications), hover over any problematic (red) element to see the identity of the element.
To drill down to a problematic (red) element, select the red hexagon and then select the View… button. On this example Synthetic monitor health tile, we have selected a red element, which enabled the View test drilldown button for that element.
You can't drill down from a healthy (green) element. From any tile, however, you can select the menu in the upper-right corner of the tile and then select View details to display the relevant Dynatrace page for the tile. For example, View details from a Synthetic monitor health tile displays the Synthetic monitors table.
Displays current key performance indicators related to the selected service or request (requests per minute, failure rate, and response time) in a resizable tile format.
Displays load details related to up to three web applications in your environment that have the highest user-action rate.
Displays the total number of applications in your environment versus the number of applications that are currently affected by problems. Opens your Applications page.
From a health tile (such as Host health, Service health, and Application health), where you see green and red elements (such as hosts, services, or applications), hover over any problematic (red) element to see the identity of the element.
To drill down to a problematic (red) element, select the red hexagon and then select the View… button. On this example Synthetic monitor health tile, we have selected a red element, which enabled the View test drilldown button for that element.
You can't drill down from a healthy (green) element. From any tile, however, you can select the menu in the upper-right corner of the tile and then select View details to display the relevant Dynatrace page for the tile. For example, View details from a Synthetic monitor health tile displays the Synthetic monitors table.
Displays key user behavior indicators related to the selected application (active sessions per minute, actions per session, and session duration) over the timeframe.
Displays a user type breakdown (doughnut) by real users, robots, and monitors, and visualizes new users versus returning users over the timeframe.
Displays a geographic map of the selected metric for the selected application.
The timeframe of the world map tile is always Last 2 hours, regardless of the global or dashboard timeframe setting. If you need to see a different timeframe, drill down to the full world map and change the timeframe there.
Drag a World map tile from the Edit dashboard pane, Tiles tab, to your dashboard
Select an application (or Most active application
) from the list
Select a geolocation
Select the metric you want to map. There are two categories. You can select only one item.
Performance metric based on user actions:
Behavior metric based on sessions or users:
Location
filter to zoom that map to that locationTroubleshooting:
Displays an overview of the selected application's key user actions and any corresponding open problems.
Displays a comparison of the current bounce rate with yesterday and the number of entry actions.
Displays the overall conversion rate and your top 5 goals for the selected application. This tile also serves as a direct link to the selected application goals view.
Displays the overall conversion rate and completions for the selected goal. This tile also serves as a direct link to the selected application goals view.
Displays JavaScript error indicators related to the selected application (JavaScript errors per minute, percent affected user actions).
Displays load details for application-specific resources grouped by first-party, third-party, and CDN resources.
Count per minute
or Load time
Displays load details related to the three third-party content providers that your application uses most frequently.
3rd party
, CDN
, or 1st party
Displays key performance indicators related to the selected mobile app (users, crash-free user rate, and number of crashes).
Displays key performance indicators related to the selected custom application (users, crash free user rate, and number of crashes).
Displays the number of current live users overall as well as your applications with most live users.
Live: Yes
and User type: Real users
.Displays key performance indicators related to the selected application: Apdex rating, user actions per minute, and number of JavaScript errors per minute.
Displays key performance indicators related to the selected application and key user action: user action duration, user actions/min, and number of errors/min.
Go to Custom Applications, Frontend, Mobile, or Web, depending on the type of application you want to monitor.
Select the application you want to monitor with this tile.
In the Top 3 user actions section, select View full details.
Select a key user action.
The Pin to dashboard button is now displayed.
Select Pin to dashboard, select a target dashboard, and select Pin.
Create advanced queries on completed user sessions with user sessions query language.
Displays the following:
Title
Status: numeric value displayed in green (good), yellow (warning), red (bad), or gray (no data).
Error budget: numeric value displayed in green (good), yellow (warning), red (bad), or gray (no data).
Target: numeric value
Problems indicator is optional
Legend (colors) and metric names are optional
Colorized based on status is optional
Tiles filters*Environment
optional Set Title
For more information, see Configure and monitor service-level objectives with Dynatrace.
Displays key performance indicators related to the selected browser monitor (availability, duration, and location status).
Displays the number of active synthetic monitors in your environment against the number of synthetic monitors in your environment that are currently affected by problems.
From a health tile (such as Host health, Service health, and Application health), where you see green and red elements (such as hosts, services, or applications), hover over any problematic (red) element to see the identity of the element.
To drill down to a problematic (red) element, select the red hexagon and then select the View… button. On this example Synthetic monitor health tile, we have selected a red element, which enabled the View test drilldown button for that element.
You can't drill down from a healthy (green) element. From any tile, however, you can select the menu in the upper-right corner of the tile and then select View details to display the relevant Dynatrace page for the tile. For example, View details from a Synthetic monitor health tile displays the Synthetic monitors table.
Displays key performance indicators related to the selected third-party monitor (availability, duration, and location status).
Displays key performance indicators related to the selected HTTP monitor (availability and duration).
Displays the number of databases in your environment against the number of databases that are currently affected by problems.
From a health tile (such as Host health, Service health, and Application health), where you see green and red elements (such as hosts, services, or applications), hover over any problematic (red) element to see the identity of the element.
To drill down to a problematic (red) element, select the red hexagon and then select the View… button. On this example Synthetic monitor health tile, we have selected a red element, which enabled the View test drilldown button for that element.
You can't drill down from a healthy (green) element. From any tile, however, you can select the menu in the upper-right corner of the tile and then select View details to display the relevant Dynatrace page for the tile. For example, View details from a Synthetic monitor health tile displays the Synthetic monitors table.
Displays key performance indicators related to the selected database service (commits per hour, statements per minute, and response time).
Displays the total number of data center services in your environment against the number of data center services that are currently affected by problems.
From a health tile (such as Host health, Service health, and Application health), where you see green and red elements (such as hosts, services, or applications), hover over any problematic (red) element to see the identity of the element.
To drill down to a problematic (red) element, select the red hexagon and then select the View… button. On this example Synthetic monitor health tile, we have selected a red element, which enabled the View test drilldown button for that element.
You can't drill down from a healthy (green) element. From any tile, however, you can select the menu in the upper-right corner of the tile and then select View details to display the relevant Dynatrace page for the tile. For example, View details from a Synthetic monitor health tile displays the Synthetic monitors table.
Displays the number of problems that are currently watched and active against the number of resolved problems in your environment. When a problem is active, the problem count is displayed in red.
Synthetically visualizes your environment components based on Smartscape analysis. The tile display constantly cycles through the five Smartscape layers: applications, services, OS processes, hosts, and datacenters. For each layer, the tile shows the total number in your environment and, in red, the number currently affected by problems.
Displays log events matching the specific log data query. Only columns configured in the log viewer for that query are displayed in the table tile.