Deployment Events on Dashboard

[mathias_indermu]

Is there a way to show deployment events (or any sort of events) from Hosts or Services etc. on the Dashboard? maybe even inside the graphs that contain metrics of these assets?

[ChadTurner]

Events are only located on the entity pages and not tile-able from what I am aware of. A RFE would need to be submitted to get this functionality. 

[derija]

Where does one see the ingested events? We were hopeful that we could see all ingested events for a given time period. If we send in events under "Custom Info" where would we be able to see them?

[MichalOlszewski]

Hi @mathias_indermu 

Have You tried to use RELEASES dashboard? Usually what You want to achieve by pulling events on dashboard is global understanding of Your services and their status. RELEASES built-in dashboard show all relevant events for Your processes. It requires releases to be configured and implemented obviously.

[Mizső]

Hi All,

Maybe this integration can be useful such cases. This solution pull the Events also via Events API and vizulaize in PowerBI in time order. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNX0jCL8AHc

I hope it helps.

Best regards,

Mizső

[Slawa]

We are considering just to send metrics instead of deployment events(They are designed pretty useless.)
In this case it will be possible to correlate deployments in all charts.

[ben_wrightson · Accepted solution]

It's possible to put events on a dashboard (if you're on Grail) with the "fetch events" command (see example in https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/platform/grail/dynatrace-query-language/commands#parse ).

[wmyers]

It's pretty disappointing that adding events to a Dashboard is Grail-dependent.  It seems like this will NOT be available to Dynatrace Managed customers.

[rohithsamudrala]

unfortunately lack of focus or enhancements to managed is concerning ... 

[Slawa]

I tested the metrics approach as a workaround - it works
You can send deployment events as metric points with some value e.g. 1 or 100
And correlate 2 charts in Data Explorer, so your deployment dots will be over other chart for instance