Observability
Grail buckets in Dynatrace: creation, routing, retention, rights and costs
Complete guide to Grail buckets: purpose, default buckets, creation in Storage management, with the API or Terraform, routing with OpenPipeline, DQL queri…
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Observability
The Dynatrace Investigations app: investigating Grail data
Discover the Investigations app: DQL queries, extraction with DPL Architect, enrichment, query tree, evidence and sharing, for incidents and security alik…
Observability
Advanced Grail and DQL: performance, parse, joins, time series, entities and correlation
Writing fast, low-cost DQL queries, parsing text with DPL and JSON, combining sources with lookup, join and append, computing time series, querying entiti…
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Data retention in Dynatrace: Grail, buckets and durations by data type
Understand how long Dynatrace keeps logs, traces, metrics, sessions and events, manage retention with Grail buckets, and balance costs, compliance and ana…
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Grail: the Dynatrace data lakehouse and the DQL language
Grail stores all Dynatrace SaaS observability data (logs, metrics, traces, events, entities) without an imposed schema. Buckets and retention, DQL queries…
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Service-Level Objectives (new platform) in Dynatrace
Define SLOs in DQL on Grail, start from templates and alert on burn rate.
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Advanced logs with OpenPipeline: processing, masking, buckets and retention
Manage logs in Dynatrace with OpenPipeline: ingestion, routing, DQL processing (parsing, enrichment), sensitive data masking, metric and event extraction,…
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Segments and the new platform: replacing management zones
Understand segments in the new Dynatrace platform: differences from management zones, inclusion rules, variables, use in apps and dashboards, governance a…
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AppEngine and custom Dynatrace apps
Build apps on the Dynatrace platform with AppEngine: Dynatrace App Toolkit, React interface and the Strato design system, app functions, Grail queries, pe…
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DQL in practice: exploring logs and events, notebooks, dashboards and performance
Use the Dynatrace Query Language day to day: explore logs and events, chain commands, parse fields, create time series, share in notebooks and dashboards,…
Observability
Using the Dynatrace API v2: a complete guide to automation
Learn how to use the Dynatrace API to automate your observability: managing scopes, routing through ActiveGate, and examples of DQL queries and events.
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License consumption types
Understand the evolution of billing in Dynatrace: the difference between the old licensing model segmented by units and the new global DPS (Dynatrace Plat…
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