Pro Tips #3 - My summary of great tips

Kenny_Gillette — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:13:11 GMT

My Favorite Dynatrace Tips & Tricks #3

Here’s a curated list of my favorite tips and resources that I hope will help others in the Dynatrace Community get more out of the platform.

🔹 Pro Tips Series

Pro Tips #1 – A summary of useful insights:
View on Dynatrace Community
Pro Tips #2 – More advanced guidance and best practices:
View on Dynatrace Community

🔹 Configuration Management

Use Monaco (or Terraform) to back up your Dynatrace tenant configurations. You never know when a restore might be needed!
Learn more – Configuration as Code

🔹 License Usage Insights

In Account Management, check which capabilities are consuming the most licenses. Verify with your organization that you're getting expected value.
(Pro tip: Disabled Workflows still consume licenses!)

🔹 Davis Copilot

Have you started using Davis Copilot yet? Make sure your environment is properly set up:
Get Started

🔹 LinkedIn Resources

Great insights often come from thought leaders in the Dynatrace space. Here are a few I follow:

👉 Let me know in the comments who you follow for Dynatrace content!

🔹 Community Events

Dynatrace West Region Virtual Community
Presentations on AI Ops, automation, cloud modernization, and more.
Join here

🔹 Dashboards & Notebooks

Review dashboards and notebooks in the Playground Tenant — you might find something useful for your team!
Explore here

🔹 Learn DQL (Dynatrace Query Language)

Extra tip: How to pull in Management Zones via DQL

dql

fetch dt.entity.service
| filter isNotNull(managementZones)
| fields managementZones
| dedup managementZones

🔹 Additional Resources

🔹 Just for Fun

Community Challenge – What would you do with a billion dollars?
Take the Billionaire Challenge

Let me know if any of these tips help — or share your own in the comments!

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