topic Re: How to get data about queries from old/classic dynatrace screens ? in DQL

How to get data about queries from old/classic dynatrace screens ?

josef_solnicky — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:43:24 GMT

When investigating dashboard(s) usage - I created also dashboard about user activity inside SaaS environment. The source is "fetch dt.system.query_executions".
Now I got idea to display also "SaaS adoption tile" - means relation between Classic and new queries.

Is it possible to find data about queries from classic dynatrace applications ?

BR, Josef

Re: How to get data about queries from old/classic dynatrace screens ?

t_pawlak — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:42:05 GMT

Hi,

dt.system.query_executions

tracks DQL (Grail) executions (e.g., Dashboards/Notebooks/Automations/API). Classic apps / Dashboards Classic don’t execute DQL queries, so their “queries” are generally not represented in this dataset.
For an adoption tile you can reliably compare DQL sources via client.application_context (e.g., dynatrace.dashboards, dynatrace.notebooks, etc.), but classic usage would need a different signal (it’s not available as “classic query executions” in dt.system.query_executions).
https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/license/consumption-insights

Re: How to get data about queries from old/classic dynatrace screens ?

josef_solnicky — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:01:08 GMT

Thank you for fast response.
Means we can get some metrics from classic apps - but it is not saying anything about Dynatrace user actions performed in old GUI. As we are going to migrate more customers from Managed - this kind of SaaS adoption metric/data would be nice...

Re: How to get data about queries from old/classic dynatrace screens ?

josef_solnicky — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:55:59 GMT

OK - at the end I created workflow for ingesting audit log rows (login/logout) and created DQL showing # of DQL queries per user login

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