Release monitoring Classic

Dynatrace Classic
Overview
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Published Sep 14, 2020

This page refers to Release monitoring Classic, available on the Releases page in Dynatrace Classic.

If you're already using the latest Dynatrace, see Release monitoring for the latest Release monitoring documentation.
To get a unified, real-time view of your deployed versions, problems, and vulnerabilities, use the Release Monitoring dashboard in the latest Dynatrace.

The software product lifecycle of a release requires careful management of release risks. Also, as more and more components and versions are deployed, the frequency of releases in your organization increases, and manually collecting release-relevant data can easily become a bottleneck in your release automation pipeline and automated software lifecycle.

Dynatrace offers a built-in release-analysis solution that helps you determine:

Which versions are deployed across your deployment stages and production environments based on multiple version-detection strategies.
The release stages of the deployed versions.
The changelog for a new version.
Known bugs and whether they're release blockers.
Risks related to specific versions.
Which version has an excessive load (for example, if you're temporarily redirecting the load with a canary deployment).
How the new version is behaving compared to previous versions.
Issue statistics related to the monitored entities.

Configure

Learn how to configure environment variables for version detection.
Optionally, you can integrate your issue-tracking systems and configure dynamic queries.

Analyze

Once you configure your software/issue tracker, you can analyze the software product lifecycle of your releases.