Is it possible to group numerous management zones on one view

[jmathan305]

Assume that I want to view entities that are present in N different management zones. Since we can’t apply tags at the management zone level, is there another way to achieve this?

[Mizső]

Hi @jmathan305,

What would be the use case? Can you provide a little bit more explanation?

Thanks.

János

[jmathan305]

I have 150+ management zones. Some of these zones have entities, while the remaining ones will be added soon. I just need a view of all these zones. In this case, we can't create a zone while trying. We need to incorporate all 150+ zone tags into one, which takes too much time.

[Julius_Loman · Accepted solution]

Probably the easiest way in UI is to display a metric in Data Explorer with filter based on entity selector containing zones.

Example for hosts which are in zone1 and zone2:

builtin:host.cpu.user
:filter(and(or(in("dt.entity.host",entitySelector("type(host),mzName(~"zone1~"),mzName(~"zone1~")")))))
:splitBy("dt.entity.host")

Or use the Environment v2 entities API to query such entities.

[marco_irmer]

You can execute a Grail query for the entities and then compute the number of elements in the managementZones field.

Example DQL

fetch dt.entity.host
| fieldsAdd mzCount = arraySize(managementZones)
| filter mzCount = 3

The above query will return hosts which belong to exactly three management zones.

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