Is it possible to create dashboards and raise alerts for UnitaryTransactions?

arunveersingh9 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:24:31 GMT

Is it possible to create dashboards and raise alerts for UnitaryTransactions? My need is that I should be able to track time taken by Indvidual transactions and raise the alerts accordingly but I am not sure Dynatrace can do it UnitaryTransaction level or it's just done at the highest level, that is FileProcessing in this case.

Below graph plots the relation between FileProcessing and UnitaryTransactions.

FileProcessing (traceId: root-trace-id-123, spanId: root-span-id-456)
├── UnitaryTransaction1 (spanId: child-span-id-789, parentSpanId: root-span-id-456)
│ ├── MicroserviceA (spanId: microserviceA-span-id-001, parentSpanId: child-span-id-789)
│ ├── MicroserviceB (spanId: microserviceB-span-id-002, parentSpanId: child-span-id-789)
│ └── MicroserviceC (spanId: microserviceC-span-id-003, parentSpanId: child-span-id-789)
├── UnitaryTransaction2 (spanId: child-span-id-101, parentSpanId: root-span-id-456)
│ ├── MicroserviceA (spanId: microserviceA-span-id-004, parentSpanId: child-span-id-101)
│ ├── MicroserviceB (spanId: microserviceB-span-id-005, parentSpanId: child-span-id-101)
│ └── MicroserviceC (spanId: microserviceC-span-id-006, parentSpanId: child-span-id-101)
└── UnitaryTransaction3 (spanId: child-span-id-112, parentSpanId: root-span-id-456)
├── MicroserviceA (spanId: microserviceA-span-id-007, parentSpanId: child-span-id-112)
├── MicroserviceB (spanId: microserviceB-span-id-008, parentSpanId: child-span-id-112)
└── MicroserviceC (spanId: microserviceC-span-id-009, parentSpanId: child-span-id-112)

Re: Is it possible to create dashboards and raise alerts for UnitaryTransactions?

MaciejNeumann — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:23:51 GMT

Hello @arunveersingh9,

According to this Documentation article:

Access spans and span attributes via DQL

With DQL you can access every single span via the command fetch spans. Combine it with DQL functions to query any span attribute stored in Grail without additional configuration.

Would filtering spans by spanID value for UnitaryTransactions solve your use case? After having a right DQL query, you can create dashboards and alerting profiles based on that.

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Is it possible to create dashboards and raise alerts for UnitaryTransactions?

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