topic Can a management zone be part of another management zone? in Open Q&A

Can a management zone be part of another management zone?

kieronM — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:30:21 GMT

When setting up a management zone, can one management zone contain another or is there no value to doing this?

Re: Can a management zone be part of another management zone?

Fin_Ubels — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:08:24 GMT

Hey Kieron
No I don't believe this is possible. However they can contain the same entities. So you could have a production one and then a production-systemName one.

Also entities can only belong to a max of 200 management zones and a management zone entity selector rule does not support mentioning other management zones. This info and more can be found in these docs https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/management-zone-rules.

Re: Can a management zone be part of another management zone?

Peter_Youssef — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:16:59 GMT

Hi @kieronM

As per Dynatrace documentations:

Multiple monitored entities can be part of multiple management zones through the management zone configuration rules.
Management zone permissions can be overlapped and subject to continuous changing as per monitoring requirement and app owner preferences.
In the configurations UI, it's not available to configure a management zone as a part of another management zone..
You can create, update, and delete management zone configurations either through UI or Rest API "environment API v2" > Settings - Objects. create access token with settings.read or settings.write based on the required action.
If you need to check through the entity selector, you can give a try and keep us posted if it works for you.

KR,

Peter.

Re: Can a management zone be part of another management zone?

AntonPineiro — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:54:40 GMT

Hi,

But one entity can be in more than one zone at the same time. For example, host A can be in MZ X and MZ Y at the same time.

It would be same for another entities (processes, services...)

Best regards