30 Mar 2026 10:41 PM
I have a new tenant, but with no Data Explorer. Even the graphs in Unified Analysis View show the Data Explorer type, and even if I put
in the URL, it shows briefly Data Explorer (it really is there) but then the following appears:
How are we supposed to explore data/metrics that aren't yet in Grail?
07 Apr 2026 09:54 AM
Hey @AntonioSousa ,
for new tenants, we removed Data Explorer because its use cases should now be covered by the Dashboards and Notebooks app.
To help us see what might still be missing for you: Which concrete data or metrics are you trying to explore that you feel you cannot access or analyze with Dashboards or Notebooks today?
regards
Thomas
09 Apr 2026 07:17 AM
@zietho I have a different use case, which I already raised a product idea for - https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Product-ideas/Globally-run-DQL-in-modal-window-for-ad-hoc-query/i...
Data Explorer was great and fast when exploring metrics. Notebooks are not. It takes a while to open a notebook , run write/run a query and see results. Often, I just need to grab the DQL or some data results (like event.provider or even.type from bizevents) and use it elsewhere. Notebooks are great for analysing data, but are bad for ad-hoc querying. Dashboards are even worse fit for that. Either I have dozens of "untitled" notebooks, or I have a long notebook with is slow to load (due to the data) and it's difficult to navigate in it.
Please introduce a modal DQL query - it seems the functionality is there already, just needs to be used.
@AntonioSousa from my experience the non-grail metrics (residing in cassandra btw) are:
Rest is typically marginal and has a replacement, see more here, here or here.
21 May 2026 04:19 PM
Beside Data Explorer, I noticed that we also "lost" the Settings Classic. I am not able to create alerting profiles and notification integration for a new client. I know we can do it using workflow, but the classic option is "costless".
21 May 2026 06:36 PM
Most of the notifications can be already accomplished with simple workflows. Afaik the remaining gaps (delayed notifications for example) should be resolved with simple workflows within upcoming weeks.
21 May 2026 04:54 PM
To me , Data Explorer was deprecated because they realized its metrics didn't align with those generated using DQL in Notebooks. Ultimately, removing it was the most practical decision.
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