topic Re: Generating Problem with workflow action "Analyze with Davis" in Automations

Generating Problem with workflow action "Analyze with Davis"

Akhil-Jayendran — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:41:46 GMT

Hello Community,

I am currently exploring the workflow capabilities for Analyze with Davis. I’ve created a simple workflow that runs every day at 05:00 AM to check for specific errors in a particular log. If the error count is 1, it should create a problem. I added an action ‘Analyze with Davis’ included my dql and set the static threshould, workflow runs successfully not getting any problem/events out of this ? Does the ‘Analyze with Davis’ action in a workflow automatically create a problem like the Anomaly Detection app, or do we need to use JavaScript to create the problem ?

Re: Generating Problem with workflow action "Analyze with Davis"

Emm4nuel — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:16:54 GMT

Hi Akhil,

Yes, you need to push the problem using a separate task. For instance, I have two executions—one without anomalies and another where the static threshold condition was exceeded.

Use values from the result JSON to define a condition in the next task. Based on that, I either send an alert to Slack or push a problem to the Problems API.

You’ll notice that the execution with an issue includes additional fields like raisedAlerts, numberOfViolations, etc., which help identify and handle the problem.

Re: Generating Problem with workflow action "Analyze with Davis"

Akhil-Jayendran — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:26:17 GMT

Thanks @Emm4nuel ,

I’ve added a JavaScript action, but unfortunately it’s not working. My JavaScript knowledge is a bit limited. I’ve attached the workflow JSON ,any chance to have look?

Re: Generating Problem with workflow action "Analyze with Davis"

Emm4nuel — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:16:17 GMT

You have a structure mistake in your output variable, I fixed it: Try with this code:

Please, let me know if it works for you.

import { eventsClient, EventIngestEventType } from "@dynatrace-sdk/client-classic-environment-v2"; import { execution } from "@dynatrace-sdk/automation-utils"; export default async function ({ executionId }) { // Step 1: Get workflow execution result const exe = await execution(executionId); const checkResult = await exe.result("check_logs"); // Step 2: Inspect output structure // I made the change here! const output = checkResult?.result?.output[0]; const dimensions = output?.dimensions || []; console.log("Full dimensions:", JSON.stringify(dimensions, null, 2)); // Step 3: Extract potentialAlerts from dimensions const potentialAlertDim = dimensions.find(dim => dim.key === "potentialAlerts"); console.log("Raw potentialAlertDim:", potentialAlertDim); const potentialAlerts = parseInt((potentialAlertDim?.value || "0").trim(), 10); console.log("Parsed potentialAlerts:", potentialAlerts); // Step 4: If alert count > 0, send a custom event if (potentialAlerts > 0) { const hostDimension = dimensions.find(dim => dim.key === "dt.entity.host"); const hostId = hostDimension?.value; if (hostId) { console.log(`Raising event on host: ${hostId}`); await eventsClient.createEvent({ body: { eventType: EventIngestEventType.CustomAnnotation, title: "⚠️ Predicted Disk Capacity Alert", description: "Disk issue detected based on timeseries analysis", entitySelector: `type(HOST),entityId("${hostId}")`, properties: { "dt.entity.host": hostId, severity: "warning" }, source: "workflow-automation" } }); } else { console.log("Host ID not found in dimensions."); } } else { console.log("No potential alerts found."); } };

Re: Generating Problem with workflow action "Analyze with Davis"

Akhil-Jayendran — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:18:55 GMT

Thank you so much @Emm4nuel , it worked like a charm.