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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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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,…
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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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Accessing the Dynatrace playground and getting started
The Dynatrace playground is a demo environment full of real data: how to access it, what it allows and does not allow, a guided discovery tour (Kubernetes…
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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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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…
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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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Workflows and AutomationEngine: automating notifications and remediation
Automate with Dynatrace Workflows (AutomationEngine): event-based, scheduled and on-demand triggers, DQL, JavaScript and HTTP tasks, Slack, Teams, Jira, S…
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Business observability with Dynatrace: business events, KPIs and Business Flow
Link technical and business in Dynatrace: business events (bizevents) captured by OneAgent, API or RUM, DQL analyses, business indicators, the Business Fl…
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Dynatrace metrics: Data Explorer, metric selectors, API and dashboards
Use metrics in Dynatrace: built-in and custom metrics, Data Explorer, metric selector syntax, Metrics API v2, metric ingestion and classic and new dashboa…
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