topic Re: Problem start timestamp is wrong in Alerting

Problem start timestamp is wrong

omer_k — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 21:36:04 GMT

Hi all

I noticed that when a problem is opened in dynatrace it will show as it was open before and it is very confusing.

I think that the cause of it is that dynatrace is using the problem start timestamp of the “Trigger event start analysis timestamp” while it should get the “Problem start timestamp” which is the “Trigger event end analysis timestamp”.

you can take a look here:

it is from this documantaion about problems life cycle - https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform/davis-ai/problem-and-root-cause/problem-lifecycle

if this is indeed the case than I think it should be changed .

the problem start time should be the "Problem start timestamp" and not the event start time.

what do you think?

Re: Problem start timestamp is wrong

Julius_Loman — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:32:14 GMT

I think this diagram is a little bit misleading. Dynatrace will create a problem at the problem analysis end timestamp, but with the problem start time then the initial event was received. Typically root cause analysis is 3 minutes, so if your event is received at 8:02, a problem will be created around 8:05 with the timestamp 8:02. This is mostly due to the root cause analysis trying to find other events being part of the same problem.

Re: Problem start timestamp is wrong

Romanenkov_Al3x — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:09:43 GMT

If your Dynatrace Managed environment extremely high (~30 nodes there will be +1 additional minute (8:02 -> 8.06) for internal processing between nodes\network lag.

Regards,

Alex Romanenkov

Re: Problem start timestamp is wrong

omer_k — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:03:45 GMT

I found problems where it is taking more than 3 minutes analysis but either way I don't think that using the event time is the right thing.

Think of a NOC engineer which is being measured by his response time and he is getting the problems with the event start time so he is "late" with his response time.

It should be at least part of the problems attributes in a way we can choose what should be displayed.

It is misleading the way it is working now.

Re: Problem start timestamp is wrong

omer_k — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:04:22 GMT

Thanks but I am using Saas

Re: Problem start timestamp is wrong

Yosi_Neuman — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:32:01 GMT

Hi @omer_k

Its look like a good product idea

Yos