topic Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days in Open Q&A

Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

TorstenHellwig — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:53:32 GMT

Hi all,

could not find anyone else asking this, but: I can't set a chart to a timeframe longer than one year.

This makes it unusable for looking at long-term trends like number of users etc. from a capacity planning or reporting perspective. Appmon had a limit in the Web-UI of 999 days.

Is it possible to change that limit? Some hidden config maybe 😉 ?

cheers,

Torsten

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

JamesKitson — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:13:45 GMT

You could always do this by setting a custom timeframe. But the new timeframe selector makes it a lot easier: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/customize-dynatrace-analysis-timeframes-as-never-before-with-the-new-global-timeframe-selector/

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

TorstenHellwig — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:31:32 GMT

Not really. Have you tried showing more than one year in a chart? Whenever I do this - new or old timeframe selector - it adjusts the date so that I see 366 days max.

cheers,

Torsten

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

AntonioSousa — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:11:24 GMT

interesting. I can confirm that this is the case, at least in SaaS. In Data Retention, there is no direct mention to this limit. Probably interesting to see if someone from Dynatrace can explain, and if yes there is a limit, I would suggest a RFE, which I would vote of course.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/data-privacy-and-security/data-privacy/data-retention-periods/

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

ChadTurner — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:57:41 GMT

Are you a managed or SaaS customer? you can always toss in a RFE and Dynatrace could work on a solution to that issue

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

JamesKitson — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:08:57 GMT

Never ran into that limit, but I asked about it and there's still some areas of the product that don't handle very large timeframes well hence the limit. The restriction is already planned to be removed once that's all sorted.

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

TorstenHellwig — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:29:03 GMT

Hi James,we ran into this while doing a PoC with a long-time Appmon customer. It's a Managed installation.

Do you think it makes sense to turn this post into an RFE or is there already a timeline as to when this restriction would be lifted?

cheers,

Torsten

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

JamesKitson — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:34:19 GMT

No need for an RFE, it's a temporary restriction while all of the views and charts in dashboard are updated to handle the larger timeframes better. I don't have any insight into timelines but sounds like it's currently being worked on.

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

TorstenHellwig — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:42:36 GMT

Thanks a lot James!

Re: Timeframe in charts limited to 366 days

piotr_lewandows — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:29:53 GMT

I'd like to propose another workaround for this limit: Being more specific with expressions like:

-2y to -1h
-1y/y to now/y
previous year

You can easily shift between years with arrows