Add remote environment to management zone

[Jurgen_Roels1]

Hi,

I've created a dashboard with some tiles which are containing data from a remote environment.

On the other hand I will be using management zones to give the appropriate user rights.

The problem is that my dashboard is not showing the data from the remote environment when I filter on a management zone. Is there a possibility to add the remote environment to the management zone?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Jurgen

[ChadTurner]

Are you able to tag the remote environment entity? If so give it a tag such as "<APPNAME> - Remote Environment" and then add the rule to the Management Zone to include anything with the host tag "<AppName - Remote Environment"

outside of that i dont think there are rules to pick and choose the remote environment from the Management Zone rules level. Id recommend tossing in a RFE with some details about what kind of rules for remote environments you'd like: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/DynatraceProductIdeas 

[RomanW · Accepted solution]

There are two ways to cope with this situation:

1) Use specific remote management zone per tile (as described in this recent blog post: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/reporting-at-scale-leveraging-cross-environment-dashboards-gener... )

• the upside of this is that it works out of the box
• the downside is that is no longer dynamic if you change the management zone on the dashboatd

2) Keep management zones in sync over conneceted environments

• you'd essentially need to synchronize management zone Ids (as described here: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/new-configuration-api-enables-efficient-configuration-as-code-ma... )
• the management zone's ID gets tacked on as a filter argument into the remote environment
• since you IDs match, the filter applies and provides accurate results

[Jurgen_Roels1]

Thanks Roman!

I've implemented the second option and this is working like expected 🙂