topic Re: Dashboard parameters and menus in Dashboarding

Parametres or menu display in the dashboard

matthias_dillie — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:41:43 GMT

Hi all,

is it possible to use parameters e.g. for a host to display in dashboards? There should also be menus (dropdown, checkbox etc.) to select parameters. Is this possible?
I'm used to have this and a lot more features in splunk or grafana dashboards.

Regards, Matthias

Re: Dashboard parameters and menus

matthias_dillie — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:19:52 GMT

I added a RFE for this: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-product-ideas/Dashboard-parameters-and-menus/idi-p/172952#M25423

Re: Dashboard parameters and menus

ChadTurner — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:57:25 GMT

You can put host metrics directly on the dashboard as a tile. Can you please elaborate on your use case?

Re: Dashboard parameters and menus

ct_27 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:17:27 GMT

The Dynatrace solution is absolutely in no way as refined and easy to use as Grafana and Splunk but recently they did add something (limited as it may be).

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/dashboards-and-charts/dashboards/dashboards-filters/

Re: Dashboard parameters and menus

matthias_dillie — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:54:28 GMT

Thanks, we already use this filters, but this is only a really small part of what I would like to use in dashboards.

One example:

We monitor a lot of metrics for all monitored hosts. I would like to implement a dashboard, where I can select a host or several hosts in a dropdown and than display some metrics in graphs and tables for the selected host. It should also be possible to use the selected values in graph (filters) or in markdown links, in headers etc. etc.

I see really many use cases to have more flexible and more generally usable dashboards. For now, the dashboards in dynatrace are still very limited to use and to configure.

Re: Dashboard parameters and menus

zietho — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:36:08 GMT

check my comment pls. I hope it will help you.

regards

Thomas

Re: Dashboard parameters and menus

zietho — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:26:48 GMT

The scenario with filtering on or multiple hosts should be possible with dynamic filters, as referenced above by @ct_27 using a "Custom dimension" that, when you pick "Host" in the settings menu, offers you a list of all your hosts in your environment.

Available since 1.240.

Regarding the other mentioned topics, that would be a product idea. https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Community-user-guide/Product-Ideas/ba-p/159825

regards

Thomas