March 2018 Summaries

Dynatrace has introduced enhancements to its Events section with the release of OneAgent v1.141, allowing for improved drill-down and filtering capabilities in event analytics. Users can now leverage the Dynatrace API to push custom events into their environment, taking advantage of advanced analytics features to assess the Events feed across their monitored components. This functionality is built upon Dynatrace's comprehensive monitoring platform that maps an application's entire topology, automatically updated in real-time by OneAgent. The platform detects over 80 built-in system event types and supports custom event reporting via plugins or the API. Enhanced event analytics present a convenient chart for visualizing event statistics over selected time frames, enabling users to focus on specific periods of high activity and filter events by type. Integration with third-party systems allows Dynatrace AI to incorporate custom events, such as those generated by CI and build toolchains, offering a seamless experience in reporting deployment meta-information. With the forthcoming release of an events REST endpoint, these improvements mark a significant step towards integrating external tools within the Dynatrace platform.

With the increasing adoption of SaaS applications like Salesforce and Office 365, companies seek ways to monitor and improve customer experience and performance without direct access to the web servers. To address this, Dynatrace has introduced a Real User Monitoring (RUM) browser extension, now in public Beta for Google Chrome, which provides insights into SaaS applications' performance and user behavior. This extension allows businesses to identify user experience issues, determine whether they are isolated or widespread, and monitor the impact of new SaaS products on existing users. The extension is easy to set up and deploy across organizations using Google Chrome policies, with configurations automatically updating to reflect any changes. Users can view and analyze the captured data alongside existing monitoring solutions, and Dynatrace invites feedback for future browser compatibility and other improvements.