Pro Tips – My summary of great tips

[Kenny_Gillette]

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=fa...

•  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-...

          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.

[ChadTurner]

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

[Mizső]

Hi @Kenny_Gillette ,

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

Best regards,

Mizső

[AntonioSousa]

Great, great list!

[DanielS]

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.

[Kenny_Gillette]

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