topic Re: Deep Monitoring - Hosts in DQL

Deep Monitoring - Hosts

Mateusbmo1 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:38:58 GMT

Hello Everyone,
good afternoon!

How are you?

I recently started working intensively on FinOps in Dynatrace, and I've begun automating some processes.

I created a script to replace all Full-Stack hosts with Infrastructure Monitoring–only hosts. However, to determine which hosts can be converted, I currently need a manual validation from my team.

I'm wondering if I could retrieve some of this information through logs and/or the API, as that would help automate the process.

I'll send you a screenshot to see if you might be able to help.

In short, I need to obtain the **Deep Monitoring** information for each host.

Re: Deep Monitoring - Hosts

Mateusbmo1 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:39:31 GMT

Re: Deep Monitoring - Hosts

Fin_Ubels — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:33:30 GMT

Hey Mateusbmo,

While I'm not sure about getting that exact deep monitoring status, a method I use for determining which hosts are valuable to keep in full stack mode is looking at which ones serve services.

Using the new Smartscape this is really easy to do using DQL. The below query looks up all hosts in the environment, then looks at which ones have a relationship to a service, then prints out just a list of host IDs that are related to services.

smartscapeNodes "HOST" | traverse "*", "SERVICE", direction:"backward" | fields host.id = dt.traverse.history[0][id] | dedup host.id

You could reverse the query and look at services first, then traverse to the hosts, either way works. This is not a perfect solution as it does not necessarily account for:

Hosts that have deep monitored processes but there is no traffic flowing through them
Failed injection scenarios

Hopefully this helps though!