Here’s an example of a web-application overview dashboard that we use in a Managed Cluster environment.
It focuses on end-user experience, service health, and error analysis, which I find most valuable for day-to-day operations.
Key sections and why they are helpful:
Top summary: Problems, Application health, Service health, Host health – quick at-a-glance status for ops teams.
Traffic overview: Active users & sessions (absolute numbers and trends over time) and total request count – good for capacity monitoring and to understand load peaks.
Errors: Total requests with HTTP errors + breakdown of 4xx and 5xx responses over time – makes spotting spikes in errors easy.
Performance: Response time and processing time trends – allows quick detection of latency issues.
Quality indicators: Failure rate (4xx/5xx), Apdex rating, and action duration distribution – useful for seeing if user experience is degrading.
User behavior: Top actions, action count, and actions with errors – highlights which user journeys are most affected if there’s a problem.
This layout gives both business and technical stakeholders a single pane of glass view:
Are users having problems right now?
Are services healthy?
Are there unusual spikes in errors or slowdowns?
You can extend it with:
SLO tiles (availability & response time SLO compliance)
Key business events (logins, transactions, orders)
- Infrastructure metrics (CPU/memory for top hosts or Kubernetes workloads)
You can also search for and take inspiration from dashboards in the demo-live environment, for example:
https://{environmentid}.apps.dynatrace.com/ui/apps/dynatrace.classic.dashboards/#dashboard;gtf=-2h;gf=all;id=84abc1b3-9354-4a0c-9c0e-07322d55c9cf
https://{environmentid}.apps.dynatrace.com/ui/apps/dynatrace.classic.dashboards/#dashboard;gtf=-2h;gf=all;id=9f29e3b6-0a83-47b4-a990-46bb741338d0
https://{environmentid}.apps.dynatrace.com/ui/apps/dynatrace.classic.dashboards/#dashboard;gtf=-2h;gf=all;id=89da6930-baab-4543-bd0b-4d8f5b4a10b0
Hi,
For a web application, you can use some front-end metrics and visualizations that make a Dynatrace dashboard both insightful and professional:
1. Key Front-End Tiles
World Map / Geo View – shows where users and performance issues originate.
Application Health & Key User Action Tiles – highlight Apdex score, availability, and JavaScript error rate.
Core Web Vitals Tiles – Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), broken down by browser or region.
2. Performance & User Behavior
Page-load timings: DOM interactive, time to first byte, resource download times.
Session statistics: unique users, total sessions, bounce rate.
Top slowest user actions or pages.
3. USQL Example
Add a USQL tile to track daily unique users and session volume etc: Example
SELECT DATETIME(starttime, 'MM-dd', '1d') AS "Date",
COUNT(DISTINCT userId) AS "Unique Users",
COUNT(*) AS "Session Volume"
FROM usersession
WHERE useraction.application = "XYZ"
AND userId IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY Date
Screenshot for idea:
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