Elevate your Dynatrace dashboarding skills with these advanced techniques for deeper insights and more effective visualizations:
1. Calculated Metrics for Custom KPIs
Go beyond standard metrics by creating calculated metrics based on existing measures. Combine, transform, and aggregate metrics to derive custom KPIs relevant to your specific business goals.
2. Service Flow Visualization with Filtering
Embed Service Flow visualizations directly into your dashboards to understand request paths and dependencies. Apply powerful filters to focus on specific services, request types, or error conditions.
3. Custom Timeframes and Comparisons
Utilize custom timeframes beyond the standard presets. Compare current performance against previous periods (e.g., last week, last month) or specific baselines to identify regressions or improvements.
4. Contextual Navigation with Dashboard Links
Create seamless navigation between related dashboards by adding dashboard links. Pass context (e.g., entity IDs, timeframes) through URL parameters to maintain focus.
5. Embedding Logs and Events
Integrate relevant log viewers and event feeds directly into your dashboards to correlate performance issues with underlying log data and critical events.
6. Using the Data Explorer for Ad-Hoc Analysis
Embed Data Explorer tiles to allow users to perform ad-hoc metric analysis and create custom visualizations directly within the dashboard.
7. Filtering Dashboard Data by Management Zones
Leverage Management Zones to scope dashboard data to specific environments, applications, or teams, providing focused views for different stakeholders.
8. Embedding Synthetic Monitors and Browser Session Replay
Include the status and key metrics of your synthetic monitors and links to browser session replays for direct insights into user experience and availability.
9. Utilizing the Notebook for Collaborative Analysis
Embed Notebook tiles to document findings, perform collaborative analysis, and share insights directly within the dashboard context.
10. Customizing Chart Visualizations
Go beyond default chart settings by customizing colors, labels, units, and thresholds to improve readability and highlight critical information.
11. Embedding World Maps for Geographical Data
Visualize geographical data (e.g., user locations, transaction origins) using interactive world map tiles.
12. Using Markdown Tiles for Rich Text and Links
Enhance your dashboards with descriptive text, instructions, and external links using Markdown tiles.
13. Filtering by Tags and Properties
Dynamically filter dashboard data based on entity tags and properties, allowing for flexible and granular analysis.
14. Embedding Process and Host Overview Tiles
Include high-level process and host overview tiles to provide context about the underlying infrastructure performance.
15. Creating Status Overview Tiles with Thresholds
Use status overview tiles to display the health and status of key entities based on defined thresholds and alerting rules.
16. Utilizing the Top N Analysis Tile
Quickly identify the top contributors to a specific metric (e.g., top 10 slowest services, top 5 hosts with high CPU) using the Top N Analysis tile.
17. Embedding Application Overview Tiles
Include application overview tiles to provide a summarized view of the health and performance of your monitored applications.
18. Creating Waterfall Analysis Tiles for Request Breakdown
Visualize the breakdown of individual requests and their timings using waterfall analysis tiles, especially useful for frontend and API performance analysis.
19. Using Gauge Charts for Goal Tracking
Display progress towards specific goals or targets using visually appealing gauge charts.
20. Implementing Alerting and Anomaly Detection Tiles
Embed tiles that display current alerts and detected anomalies, providing a quick overview of active issues.
21. Leveraging the Heatmap Chart for Density Visualization
Visualize the density of data points across different dimensions using heatmap charts.
22. Creating Funnel Charts for Conversion Rate Analysis
Visualize user journeys and conversion rates through different stages using funnel charts.
23. Embedding Custom JavaScript Visualizations
For highly specific visualization needs, embed custom JavaScript charts and components within your dashboards.
- Dynatrace Community: Custom Visualization SDK (Idea) (Check for current availability)
24. Utilizing the Sankey Chart for Flow Visualization
Visualize the flow of traffic, data, or resources between different entities using Sankey charts.
- (Search Dynatrace documentation for “Sankey chart” for current availability and usage)
25. Creating Treemap Charts for Hierarchical Data
Display hierarchical data (e.g., resource consumption by application and service) using treemap charts.
- (Search Dynatrace documentation for “Treemap chart” for current availability and usage)
26. Sharing Dashboards with Specific Permissions
Control access to your dashboards by sharing them with specific users or groups and defining appropriate permissions.
27. Exporting Dashboards to PDF or CSV
Export dashboard data and visualizations to PDF or CSV formats for reporting and sharing purposes.
- (Search Dynatrace documentation for “export dashboard” for current availability and usage)
28. Templating Dashboards for Reusability
Create dashboard templates with variables that can be customized for different entities or contexts, promoting consistency and efficiency.
- (Search Dynatrace documentation for “dashboard templates” or “dashboard variables” for current availability and usage)
29. Integrating with External Ticketing and Collaboration Systems
Link directly from dashboard elements to external ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow) or collaboration platforms (e.g., Slack, Microsoft Teams) for streamlined incident management.
- (Search Dynatrace documentation for “dashboard integrations” or “linking to external tools” for current availability and usage)
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