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Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

Kenny_Gillette — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:47:22 GMT

My Favorite Tips and Tricks of Dynatrace. I am hoping below will help others in the Community get better with the product.

Use Monaco (or Terraform) to backup all your companies Dynatrace tenant configs https://dynatrace.github.io/dynatrace-monitoring-as-code/

Use https://dynatrace.status.io/ to monitor Dynatrace overall status. Bonus: setup a synthetic to monitor

Use https://myaccount.dynatrace.com/accounts to view Licenses, Identity & Access Management and other various tools

Use Dynatrace PowerUps to further Dynatrace Dashboards https://github.com/dynatrace-oss/DynatraceDashboardPowerups

Use BizOps Configurator to pull dashboard templates https://dynatrace.github.io/BizOpsConfigurator/#home

Read release notes to find out new functionality in Dynatrace https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/whats-new/release-notes

Watch Dynatrace recorded live streams (also on Youtube) https://university.dynatrace.com/ondemand/course/21409?content=content&section=21410 (PowerPoint is in Dynatrace university, not YouTube)

Much watch Community Tips & Tricks (also on YouTube) https://university.dynatrace.com/ondemand/course/21409?content=content&section=35351 – watch all of them (PowerPoint is in Dynatrace university, not YouTube)

Favorites:

Episode 3: Advanced Tagging to create a Dynamic Management Zone

Episode 1: Proper App Detection

Episode 2: Real User Monitoring Troubleshooting

Episode 4: RUM Troubleshooting

Episode 7: PostMan

Read anything from DynaMights community posts. Here are the DynaMights https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Hall-of-fame/bd-p/hall_of_fame

Dashboard/Data explorer tips https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dashboarding/Dashboard-Data-explorer-tips/m-p/179979

My favorites:

Sort by (metric entity) names instead of their values

Can I show the host for a PGI?

Follow Tips and Tricks https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-tips/bd-p/Tips

Search Community for “Pro Tip” to get many great Tips https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&q=pro%20tip

Subscribe to Dynatrace RSS Feeds to get latest information like updates to the system https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-tips/PRO-TIP-Using-RSS-to-be-up-to-date-with-Dynatrace-News/m-p/187134

Also, you can do by email at end of page - https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/

Get Certified as it will make you a better Dynatrace Engineer

Go to Events/Webinars to learn more about upcoming events https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Events-and-webinars/eb-p/events

Vote for Product Ideas https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-product-ideas/idb-p/DynatraceProductIdeas

Read Monthly community news as that can show you things you have missed through the month. Here is January’s https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Community-news/The-Community-News-for-January-2023/ba-p/201602

Let me know if this helps anyone.

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

ChadTurner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:21:45 GMT

great set of tips! bookmarking this for sure!! Thanks @Kenny_Gillette

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

Mizső — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:25:39 GMT

Hi @Kenny_Gillette ,

It is a great list!!! Thanks for sharing.

Best regards,

Mizső

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

AntonioSousa — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:11:25 GMT

Great, great list!

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

DanielS — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:03:31 GMT

Thank @Kenny_Gillette great post, about the Episode 3: Advanced Tagging to create a Dynamic Management Zone I also want to add the link to Best practices for scaling tagging and management-zone rule it is a great post from the documentation when you go serious about tagging and MZ rules. Lot of tips for scaling keeping the performance and good practices.

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

Kenny_Gillette — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:48:51 GMT

Thanks for sharing this. We will definitely being reviewing as we have many tags and MZs.

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

gbaudart — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:43:57 GMT

Thanks for sharing this 🙂

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

sujit_k_singh — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:42:11 GMT

@Kenny_GilletteThank you for sharing this. I've been watching the episodes one by one. In episode 3, I noticed an issue. The presenter mentioned using type(*), tag(tagename) to capture dynamic MZ, but Dynatrace doesn't accept type(*). Essentially, this entity selector wouldn't work for dynamic MZ.

Thanks,

Tijust

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

Kenny_Gillette — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:16:46 GMT

Did you review Presentation (PowerPoint)? It will help better explain.

Are you looking at wish list?

Look at slide 12, 13 and 14

Green box above, not red.

Hope this helps

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

sujit_k_singh — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:28:45 GMT

@Kenny_Gillette my bad...i was looking for wish list 😞

Thanks for your correction

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

sundarv1 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:03:57 GMT

Hi Kenny

Please advise how to setup automatic tagging . i want to tag all the hostnames starting with aus as with tag a pre-prod. Please find attached screenshot. i am not able to find place to do this in the rule

Re: Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

AntonPineiro — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:59:04 GMT

Hi,

Best regards