topic Re: Data Explorer in new tenants? in Dashboarding

Data Explorer in new tenants?

AntonioSousa — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:41:52 GMT

I have a new tenant, but with no Data Explorer. Even the graphs in Unified Analysis View show the Data Explorer type, and even if I put

/ui/apps/dynatrace.classic.data.explorer/ui/data-explorer

in the URL, it shows briefly Data Explorer (it really is there) but then the following appears:

How are we supposed to explore data/metrics that aren't yet in Grail?

Re: Data Explorer in new tenants?

zietho — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:54:24 GMT

Hey @AntonioSousa ,

for new tenants, we removed Data Explorer because its use cases should now be covered by the Dashboards and Notebooks app.

To help us see what might still be missing for you: Which concrete data or metrics are you trying to explore that you feel you cannot access or analyze with Dashboards or Notebooks today?

regards

Thomas

Re: Data Explorer in new tenants?

AntonioSousa — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:08:59 GMT

@zietho ,

Re: Data Explorer in new tenants?

Julius_Loman — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:17:47 GMT

@zietho I have a different use case, which I already raised a product idea for - https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Product-ideas/Globally-run-DQL-in-modal-window-for-ad-hoc-query/idi-p/272184
Data Explorer was great and fast when exploring metrics. Notebooks are not. It takes a while to open a notebook , run write/run a query and see results. Often, I just need to grab the DQL or some data results (like event.provider or even.type from bizevents) and use it elsewhere. Notebooks are great for analysing data, but are bad for ad-hoc querying. Dashboards are even worse fit for that. Either I have dozens of "untitled" notebooks, or I have a long notebook with is slow to load (due to the data) and it's difficult to navigate in it.

Please introduce a modal DQL query - it seems the functionality is there already, just needs to be used.

@AntonioSousa from my experience the non-grail metrics (residing in cassandra btw) are:

billing metrics (replaced by dt.system.events table)
SLO functions metrics (SLO in Gen3 works differently)
RUM Classic metrics - there is a different set of metrics with New RUM experience
Kubernetes classic metrics

Rest is typically marginal and has a replacement, see more here, here or here.