Company
Date Published
Author
Wolfgang Beer
Word count
988
Language
American English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Dynatrace's latest release introduces alerting profiles to enhance problem notification management, replacing the older, cumbersome watch settings. These profiles allow users to create detailed alert-filtering rules based on severity, customer impact, tags, and problem duration, offering precise control over notifications in large environments. This is applicable across all alerting channels, including the Dynatrace mobile app, web UI, and third-party integrations such as Slack, HipChat, and PagerDuty. Each environment has a default alerting profile, which can be customized or replaced by new profiles tailored to specific teams or integration needs. The transition from watch settings to alerting profiles requires manual migration, as existing settings cannot be automatically transferred, but newly created environments have alerting profiles enabled by default. This change aims to improve the filtering and routing of problem notifications by using customizable rules to ensure timely and relevant alerts.