Dynatrace launchpads: Focus on what matters with customizable home pages

With Dynatrace launchpads, you can create customizable home pages to help you get started with your daily tasks. Launchpads, are the first page users see when logging in to Dynatrace, and address different use cases, such as quick navigation, smooth onboarding for new hires, or serving as a central entry point for the daily work of different users, teams, and departments.

A customizable, responsive UI/UX solution is integral to developing modern software. Because Dynatrace is used by different teams and departments with different requirements, it’s important that “launch experiences” (aka launchpads) offer flexibility to accommodate each user’s use cases—there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

One team might need a launchpad to onboard a new hire and display important internal onboarding resources, link to the team’s central notes, CI/CD integrations, and essential applications. Another team might need a launchpad customized to a new project, with links to external resources, shared dashboards and notebooks, and photos of team members.

Once created, launchpads can easily be shared with specific colleagues or your whole organization.

Personalized home pages for every occasion

Dynatrace launchpads can be tailored to fit these specific needs. Designed to be highly customizable and easy to use, launchpads can make your Dynatrace experience more personal. They allow for

• consolidating relevant resources to a single page,
• providing shortcuts to Dynatrace® Apps—including deep links to dashboards, notebooks, or other documents,
• collecting pinned, pre-filtered views into apps such as Problems, Distributed Traces, or Services,
• including external content, such as links to web resources, images, text elements, and much more.

Dynatrace launchpads offer many customization options, making them useful for any type of user and use case. They can be created for individuals, teams, specific projects, or even entire departments and are best suited for curating a catalogue of shared resources for a group of people working together.

With launchpads, administrators can define specific home pages, curate their content based on feedback from the respective teams, and offer centralized access. They can even select a particular launchpad for all team members or selected user groups.

Address different needs

Besides serving as home pages for teams, launchpads can also be used for addressing other needs, such as:

• Opinionated views for users’ daily work: Views combine the apps, links, and content users need, neatly organized on one page, allowing for an end-to-end view specifically curated for individual teams or departments to serve as an entry point for daily work or to follow official frameworks and processes.
• Entry points for occasional users: Not every user works with Dynatrace daily. Launchpads can give these users a central entry point for all their tasks.
• Onboarding and learning: Use enablement materials to guide new coworkers through their first steps and share learning content through documentation, relevant apps, or ready-made documents such as notebooks or dashboards.

Dynatrace launchpads in action

Our example (see below) shows a launchpad built by a developer team. It covers their daily routines (link to backlog and recordings of daily stand-ups), relevant content, and documents (adoption dashboards, problem overview, templates for post mortems, etc). Utilizing launchpads in this way ensures that even an occasional user knows where to find all the important apps, how to solve common issues, and how to debug problems using Dynatrace, including external content such as the team’s Backstage portal, their daily standup meeting notes, recording, and their GitHub repository for easy access.

Ready to create your own launchpad?

Start improving your users’ experiences and familiarizing yourself with creating and delivering customized launch experiences. Check out our Dynatrace Documentation or get inspired by launchpads we’ve shared in our Dynatrace Playground environment.

Do you want to share your feedback and ideas? As always, we’d love to hear what you think. Please share your thoughts, comments, and questions in the Dynatrace Community.