Dynatrace dashboard timeframe and management zone settings

Classic
How-to guide
2-min read
Published Jul 19, 2017

This page refers to classic dashboards created using the Dashboards Classic Dashboards Classic functionality integrated with Dynatrace Classic.

If you're already using the Dashboards app in the latest Dynatrace, see Dashboards for related documentation.
If you're still using classic dashboards, we encourage you to upgrade your dashboards and benefit from all the latest dashboarding possibilities made available by the Dashboards app in the latest Dynatrace.

The global selectors for timeframe and management zone are available for use across all pages and views. You'll find them in the upper-right corner.

Select the filter button to select a new management zone
Select the timeframe to select a new timeframe
Timeframe selector controls
The global timeframe selector serves as a time filter that, in most cases, enables you to select a specific analysis timeframe that persists across all product pages and views as you navigate through your analysis.
- The Presets tab lists all standard timeframes available. Select one to change your timeframe to that preset.
- The Custom tab displays a calendar. Click a start day, click an end day, and then click Apply to select that range of days as your timeframe.
  
  Selected calendar intervals are set to end on start of the next day (with the time set to 00:00). For example, if you select September 3 to September 4 on the calendar, the timeframe starts on September 3 at time 00:00 and ends on September 5 at time 00:00, so you never miss the last minute of the time range. You can edit these displayed times.
- The Recent tab displays recently used timeframes. Select one to revert to that timeframe.
- The < and > controls shift the timerange forward or backward in time. The increment is the length of the original timerange. For example, if the current timerange is Last 2 hours (the two-hour range ending now), click < to shift the timerange two hours back, to -4h to -2h (the two-hour range ending two hours ago).
- Hover over the timeframe to see the start time, duration, and end time.
Timeframe selector expressions
If you select the current timeframe in the menu bar, an editable timeframe expression is displayed.
- Reading from left to right, a timeframe expression has a start time, a to operator, and an end time.
- If there is no explicit end time, the to and now are implied. For example, -2h is the same -2h to now.
- Supported units: s, m, h, d, w, M, q, y (you can also use whole words such as minutes and quarter)

Timeframe and management zone preservation

Timeframe and management zone selections are sticky—they're propagated to all pages you visit. For example, after changing the timeframe and management zone on your dashboard, the selections are preserved as you drill down from the Applications tile to individual application pages.

The exception is opening a new dashboard or getting back to the current dashboard by selecting Dashboard in the upper-left corner of the page. In that case, the timeframe and management zone are reset to the dashboard's defaults.

The timeframe selector remembers up to 10 recently used timeframes.

Default timeframe and management zone

You can set a default timeframe and management zone for each dashboard; these are selected every time you open the dashboard. They're also used when you share the dashboard.

You can also specify a default timeframe and management zone for each tile.

Dashboard-specific timeframe

To set a dashboard timeframe that overrides the global timeframe

Switch to the Settings tab.
Turn on Default timeframe.
Select the timeframe you want to be the default for this dashboard.

Dashboard-specific management zone

To set a dashboard management zone that overrides the global management zone

Switch to the Settings tab.
Turn on Default management zone.
Select the management zone you want to be the default for this dashboard.

Tile-specific timeframe

To set a tile timeframe that overrides the dashboard timeframe

Go to Dashboards Classic.
Select the name of a dashboard to display that dashboard.
Select Edit in the upper-right corner of the dashboard. The dashboard opens in edit mode.
- If you don't see an Edit option, you don't have permission to edit that dashboard.
Select the tile you want to configure.
Turn on Custom timeframe.
Select the timeframe you want to be the default for this tile.
Done.
When you set a tile-specific timeframe, a filter is displayed in the upper-right of the tile. Hover over the filter to see the setting.

Tile-specific management zone

To set a tile management zone that overrides the dashboard management zone

Go to Dashboards Classic.
Select the name of a dashboard to display that dashboard.
Select Edit in the upper-right corner of the dashboard. The dashboard opens in edit mode.
- If you don't see an Edit option, you don't have permission to edit that dashboard.
Select the tile you want to configure.
Turn on Custom management zone.
Select the management zone you want to be the default for this tile.
Done.
When you set a tile-specific management zone, a filter is displayed in the upper-right of the tile. Hover over the filter to see the setting.