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Date Published
Author
Andreas Grabner
Word count
873
Language
American English
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None

Summary

In the event of a disaster, quickly obtaining live updates on the recovery status of critical business systems is essential, and Dynatrace facilitates this by monitoring a wide range of systems and organizing the data with comprehensive tagging capabilities. A case study from a large US-based insurance company illustrates how Dynatrace was used to create a dashboard that displays the health status of Business Critical devices according to their Disaster Recovery (DR) priority levels, following the company's VMWare DR-SRM naming scheme. This dashboard not only provides management with real-time system status updates but also eliminates the need for manual status inquiries during recovery efforts. The company utilized Dynatrace's auto-tagging rules to efficiently assign DR-SRM Priority Level tags to VMWare hosts, thus allowing for streamlined filtering and alerting processes. The approach underscores the benefits of using Dynatrace's tagging and dashboard functionalities to enhance disaster recovery management and communication across teams.