# How do I get Dynatrace to display friendly hostnames when I am creating widgets for my dashboard

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-do-i-get-dynatrace-to-display-friendly-hostnames-when-i-am-creating-widgets-for-my-dashboard/43196>\
**Category:** Dashboarding\
**Tags:** dynatrace-managed, data-explorer, dashboards, dashboards-classic, charts\
**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-do-i-get-dynatrace-to-display-friendly-hostnames-when-i-am-creating-widgets-for-my-dashboard/43196 "2023-12-13T16:07:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![badgerfifteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@badgerfifteen](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/badgerfifteen)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-do-i-get-dynatrace-to-display-friendly-hostnames-when-i-am-creating-widgets-for-my-dashboard/43196/1 "2023-12-13T16:07:00Z")

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I am in the process of creating widgets for my dashboard. For one of them, I have created a widget which displays the utilisation of a server, along with its corresponding disk. I have managed to create one, but it just displays it in the most unfriendly way possible. Like “DISK-2091822KAPQKA”. Is there a DQL command where I can make Dynatrace use friendly names, ones which make sense to the user.

Thanks! 🙂

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**Author:** ![LawrenceBarratt](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/lawrencebarratt/32/26634_2.png) [@LawrenceBarratt](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/LawrenceBarratt)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-do-i-get-dynatrace-to-display-friendly-hostnames-when-i-am-creating-widgets-for-my-dashboard/43196/2 "2023-12-14T23:19:53Z")

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Hi [@badgerfifteen](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/67521)

There is a field called disk.entity.name you can do a lookup on.

Example DQL below:

timeseries {rtime=avg(dt.host.disk.read\_time), rops=avg(dt.host.disk.read\_ops) }, by: {dt.entity.host, dt.entity.disk}

| lookup [fetch dt.entity.host | fieldsAdd tags], lookupField:id , sourceField:dt.entity.host, prefix:“host.”

| lookup [fetch dt.entity.disk], lookupField:id , sourceField:dt.entity.disk, prefix:“disk.”

| summarize avg(rtime[]), avg(rops[]), by:{interval, timeframe, disk.entity.name}

Thanks,

Lawrence