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Explore Business Events in Dynatrace

The entry point to understand, explore and use business events.

1. What is Explore Business Events for? #

The entry point to understand, explore and use business events.

The principle #

Explore Business Events is the entry point for business events (bizevents): order placed, payment accepted, sign-up. The app helps see which events arrive, from where, and use them in dashboards, notebooks or workflows.

Explore Business Events : Sources → Grail → Explore → Use

2. Key features #

What the app offers.

Overview #

FeatureRole
ExplorationEvent providers and types, volumes
DQLfetch bizevents in notebooks or the Logs and event viewer
ExploitationDashboard creation, use in Business Flow and workflows

3. Getting started #

First steps.

Step by step #

  1. Check that at least one source sends business events.
  2. Open Explore Business Events and browse types.
  3. Query them with DQL.
  4. Reuse them in a Business Flow.

Prerequisites #

  • Permission to read bizevents in Grail.
Name before sending. Set a convention for event.provider and event.type: it drives every downstream use.

Sources #

From the official documentation consulted in November 2026: labels and availability change with platform versions.

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