topic Re: Access Main Technology of individual processes in DQL

Access Main Technology of individual processes

Javin_Singh — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:48:15 GMT

Within a DQL query, I am trying to filter processes based on the "Main Technology" of each process group, e.g. "Dynatrace" and "Elasticsearch". However, I can't seem to find the variable containing the "Main Technology" of each process.

I have tried looking for it in the following with no luck:

dt.entity

dt.entity.process

dt.entity.process_group

dt.entity.process_group_instance

But when viewing the process itself in the Dynatrace GUI, the "Main Technology" is stated plainly:

Could any one tell me what variable I should call in DQL to access the "Main Technology" information please?

Re: Access Main Technology of individual processes

PedroSantos — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:06:55 GMT

Hey @Javin_Singh , see if this quick dql will serve your purpose:

fetch dt.entity.process_group_instance | fieldsAdd softwareTechnologies, processType | filter matchesPhrase(softwareTechnologies, "DYNATRACE")

This will list you all Process Group Instances that have "DYNATRACE" as a software technology field.

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As a tip, remember you can always use the 'describe' command to try and find out what you can/should call on the DQL query wit fieldsAdd 🙂 I discovered dt.entity.process_group_instance has a softwareTechnologies field because I used:

describe dt.entity.process_group_instance

And that gave me a table with all the fields I could search for. You should definitely try it out yourself as it can be very useful to refine your dql dashboards and make them fancy.

Re: Access Main Technology of individual processes

Javin_Singh — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:16:57 GMT

Thanks Pedros, this worked.

Re: Access Main Technology of individual processes

paolo_fumanelli — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:23:15 GMT

Hi, this is ok when you want to find if a process/process group has or not a specific technology, but how to extract the Main technology like it's shown in process/process group page?

Re: Access Main Technology of individual processes

alabarros — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:27:02 GMT

This is also my question.
How do I extract this property?
Whether from a process, a group of processes, or even services?

Re: Access Main Technology of individual processes

jiri_stefanek — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:35:18 GMT

Hi @PedroSantos
I have problem to modify the dql command above to list all technologies for all processes, not just "Dynatrace."
Any ideas on how to do that?