topic Re: Can the Dynatrace Workflow run a DQL query and export the output to a PDF or Excel file, then email the report as an attachmen in Automations

Run DQL query and export output as email in workflows

Akhil-Jayendran — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:27:46 GMT

Hello Team ,

Currently, we’ve tested a basic workflow that runs a DQL query and sends an email. However, we’re looking to find out if there’s a feature within Dynatrace Workflows that allows sending the query results as a formatted report, preferably attached as an Excel or CSV file. Has anyone already experimented with this?

Thank you!

Re: Can the Dynatrace Workflow run a DQL query and export the output to a PDF or Excel file, then email the report as an attachmen

Kenny_Gillette — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:47:35 GMT

I was wondering same thing. You could send a link Via Workflow to dql dashboard then user could download result. I have set that up.

Re: Can the Dynatrace Workflow run a DQL query and export the output to a PDF or Excel file, then email the report as an attachmen

StrangerThing — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:29:29 GMT

I would love to do something similar but with a pdf of a dashboard.

Re: Can the Dynatrace Workflow run a DQL query and export the output to a PDF or Excel file, then email the report as an attachmen

Julius_Loman — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:47:10 GMT

Very good idea, in general, this is of course possible, by developing a custom workflow action ( see https://developer.dynatrace.com/develop/workflows/create-custom-action/ ), but it needs some JavaScript / React developer knowledge.

Re: Can the Dynatrace Workflow run a DQL query and export the output to a PDF or Excel file, then email the report as an attachmen

Akhil-Jayendran — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:52:28 GMT

Hi @Julius_Loman ,
I also strongly believe this can be achieved using JavaScript or React. Since my Java skills are quite poor, my hope is that if someone here has already developed a similar solution, I could ask for their help or request them to share the code. 😅

Re: Can the Dynatrace Workflow run a DQL query and export the output to a PDF or Excel file, then email the report as an attachmen

Akhil-Jayendran — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:01:20 GMT

Hi @Kenny_Gillette ,

Thank you for this. This is one of the options we currently have, but I was wondering if we can also attach files to emails, as some existing tools already support this feature.

Re: Run DQL query and export output as email in workflows

Tommaso_Fin — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:07:25 GMT

Hi, is this feature on the roadmap? I know this could be achieved as a custom workflow task, but i think should be a standard feature since needed by several customers and a quite basic need

thanks