My Dynatrace Assist Tips and Tricks

[andreas_grabner]

Hi

Many of you have already played around with Dynatrace Assist. So have I. And I have just published a short Tips & Tricks video to walk through several use cases on YouTube.

In the video I also try to beat Dynatrace Assist in analyzing traces. Well - I ended up in 2nd place 🙂

Please share your own assist conversations. What works, what doesnt, what surprises?

[txvepr]

Just recently I had the Dynatrace AI create an entire dashboard based on approximately 12 rows of logs that I had from a test on 2 separate days. I needed to be able to have this Dashboard operating when we go live, but only had those 2 days of short testing from the vendor making the Posts. I told it my instructions and gave it the 2 dates to check. 

Based on those 12 rows of test posts having a variety of elements tested, It created a 12 pane dashboard including Geolocation map of those posts and it is ready for Go Live tracking.  

Simply Amazing!

[andreas_grabner]

cool. thanks for sharing. Any screenshots you can share? Or any parts of the prompt? Its always great to learn from others!

[txvepr]

Creating a pipeline and Dashboard from minimal log entries in Dynatrace:

Background:

This POC needed to create an Open Telemetry Pipeline for logs to a dedicated bucket for audit purposes.

I only had 2 log files with only 12 rows of entries from a quick test to work with . Of course, once we get closer to go live we will get more. The logs are in a JSON format.  Investigate your log first to look for patterns or meaningful elements.

1. Based on your DQL from above, Dynatrace AI query then can be : “how can the logs returned from this DQL be a pattern for pipeline detection: fetch logs | filter contains(content, "xxxx", caseSensitive: false) // Add filters by: | filter matchesValue(field, "value") “
2. Since there are multiple values possible instead of just “xxxx” , I then prompted “not based on xxxx content”
3. DT AI then went back and discovered a better pattern match for this particular Open Telementry feed ingested log to use for identification.
4. I queried “can a pipeline be based on the other data elements like server, hostname, ip or other non content related attributes”  . “Yes, absolutely”
5. DT AI then listed out that host.name would be the best identifier . It returned DQL for me to run to find what non-content fields are populated.
6. I then asked if “data.audience” could be used since it will be unique to this particular feed because the host or IP could change in the future.
7. Just to verify correctness I then told DT AI to use my 2 logs I had from their dates rather than just based on my DQL at the start. “use example data from the date 2026-06-23T00:00:00-05:00/2026-06-23T23:59:59-05:00 “
8. DT AI returned a “Fields produced by the Pipeline” in a table with the validation DQL.
9.  DT AI then asked if “Would you like to add alerting on xxxx.auth.failed == true, or build a dashboard summarizing activity by xxxx.api.endpoint and xxxx.organization?*”
10. I chose “build a Dashboard”

It gave me a 12 panel Dashboard that works plus the import JSON.

Obviously you should always verify the output with what you know about your own data before accepting it. 

If you haven’t started leveraging the DT AI, you are missing out on a huge force multiplier for your team.

[andreas_grabner · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot for sharing the details.

One final question: Did you do this within Dynatrace in Dynatrace Assist? Or did you use a Claude/CoPilot/... and connected it to Dynatrace via MCP or dtctl?

[txvepr]

This was done entirely within the Dynatrace Assist. The ways it can correlate across our stack is what makes this feature indispensable.

[andreas_grabner]

Thanks. FYI -> @GabrieleHB 

[NicoleMT]

Hi Andy!!, I have a question. Does using the new Dynatrace Assist features incur additional subscription costs or consume subscription credits? If so, could you please let me know which features or use cases generate those costs?

[Julius_Loman]

@NicoleMT Assist itself does not have any costs associated. Only the DQL assist executes incur costs based on your rate card. Assist skills have limits in place.