Show hostnames in dashboards

[arnit_kashi]

Hi,

We have 2 process with the same name in 2 different servers

How do I show server name in dashboards?

seems like I'm missing something basic

Thanks,

Arnit

[ChadTurner]

one thing we leverage was process and service renaming - you can read about it here: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/more-effective-ai-to-human-interactions-with-dynatrace-davis/

[arnit_kashi]

We tried to use Service naming & Process group naming

But we get 2 hostnames front of the service/process name

We want to see in the dashboard 2 panels that show the service/process running on 2 different servers:

1. hostname01 - api-gateway-server

2. hostname02 - api-gateway-server

How can we do that?

[ChadTurner]

Both names are coming up because they are part of the same host grouping. You can put them in separate hosts groups, or you can build up a management zone that cuts the data out by host, and then set the zone for that tile. So you would need to MZ's one for Host 1 and one for Host 2, then you'd clone two of those tiles and edit them and set the MZ for each one.

[kalle_lahtinen]

Looks like Dynatrace is correctly showing those two process instances in one process group cluster, which is then providing the service called "api-gateway-server". You could of course split that PG into 2 new PGs by putting the hosts into different host groups. But I wouldn't recommend that approach, since you'd basically end up with a 2 duplicate services (api-gateway coming from host A and api-gateway from host B).

What you want instead is to filter the data based on instance, i.e. process running on host A vs. process running on host B. You could save these graphs under Multidimensional Analysis views, which are available under the Service api-gateway-server. So save one view with the instance filter for host A, and then another for host B.

The last tricky part is how to get those Multidimensional Analysis views into a dashboard. Based on this discussion, there's now an early adopter feature available which allows just that (see response by dynatrace A.:

https://community.dynatrace.com/questions/217862/how-to-add-multidimensional-analysis-chart-to-dash....