In this episode, Adriana (@AdrianaVillela) shares what she's learned about the Dynatrace MCP server and what you can do with it with OpenTelemetry data. She will send data to Dynatrace with the OpenTelemetry Demo and then query this data in Dynatrace via the Dynatrace MCP Server.
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📖 Chapters 📖
00:00 Introduction
01:18 MCP overview
02:20 The Dynatrace MCP Server
02:38 Demo
02:47 GitHub Copilot Chat overview
05:48 Create and configure mcp.json
08:46 Configure environment variables for Dynatrace MCP server
10:22 Create an OAuth client
16:11 Create Dynatrace API token
22:19 Interacting with Dynatrace via the MCP server
24:38 List names of unique services in Dynatrace
25:34 List spans per service
26:06 List logs associated with a span of a given service
28:55 Troubleshooting a prompt
33:45 Find the average response time for a service
35:38 Wrap up
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🔗 Additional Links
Watch the series
MCP support in Visual Studio Code
Adriana's blog post on the Dynatrace MCP server
Dynatrace DQL documentation
Get hands-on and visit the Playground Environment
Learn how Dynatrace supports OpenTelemetry
Learn how Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry make a winning combination
Learn how to send OpenTelemetry data to Dynatrace
Learn how to run the OpenTelemetry Demo App with Dynatrace
Learn about recommended configurations of the OpenTelemetry Collector
Try out Dynatrace with a free trial
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