topic Re: Maintenance Window App in Open Q&A

Maintenance Window App

ChadTurner — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:20:54 GMT

Has anyone started to build a Dynatrace App that allows users the ability to set Maintenance Windows in a self serve fashion?

Granted we do have granular permissions that will allow users to make a Maintenance Window but I was hoping to build a basic UI where the users can set the Maintenance Windows.

Thanks for sharing your ideas!

Re: Maintenance Window App

Slawa — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:42:28 GMT

We had it in Jenkins... and it was handy
You have a build -> API call to dynatrace set MV for a specific time
Never need to care about MW for a specific app

Regarding permissions
I didn't find how to limit user rights to MV only - maybe I am wrong...

Re: Maintenance Window App

MarcioKaue — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 01:01:34 GMT

We need to develop an application outside of Dynatrace that registers the Maintenance window for the Host and all instances of processes linked to the host.

We apply Operating System updates every month and this leads to numerous alerts as the registration process through the Dynatrace interface for a batch of 500, 2K servers is very time consuming.

Re: Maintenance Window App

MatthewDeBlois — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:13:57 GMT

Yes. Not in a place to share the code but this is what we've done:
- Can select a management zone or an entity

- Entities selectable are host, database instance, or databases (based on SQL Server Extension hierarchy, as these are the 3 most used)

- Pick time window. If "decommissioning" we use a tag-driven approach with long-term maintenance window to permanently turn off anomaly detection or alerting.