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Date Published
Author
Roman Windischhofer
Word count
840
Language
American English
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None

Summary

Dynatrace has announced the general availability of cross-environment dashboards, which allow users to combine monitoring artifacts from separate Dynatrace environments, including support for remote management zones. This advancement simplifies the process of reporting monitoring data by enabling visualization from multiple environments on a single dashboard, thereby avoiding the need to create multiple dashboards across different environments. The new functionality offers a streamlined setup via the Dynatrace web UI, where users can select environments for data retrieval with a single click. This enhancement provides a seamless experience for problem analysis across various environments, as it allows for deeper examination through remote-environment capabilities. Connecting to remote environments has been made easier, with interactive connections possible through the web UI and automation via API capabilities. However, remote-environment connections maintain user context and permissions within environment boundaries, necessitating the use of management zones for segmentation. While environment administrators configure these dashboards, regular users can still access and interact with them without restrictions, except for the World map dashboard tile, which does not support remote environments. Dynatrace aims to further enhance user permissions across environment boundaries and encourages feedback from users on deploying remote-environment dashboards effectively.