# \#security-investigato

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## [Pro Tip: Using Custom Pivoting  in Investigations](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/pro-tip-using-custom-pivoting-in-investigations/54871)

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**Author:** [@Tiit\_Hallas](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Tiit_Hallas)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 4, 2026, 11:52am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/pro-tip-using-custom-pivoting-in-investigations/54871 "2026-02-04T11:52:00Z")

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Pivoting is a concept in Investigations (previously known as Security Investigator) that enables you to switch the context of your query. For example, you searched for log records containing errors and found several of t…

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## [Pro Tip: Four things you didn't know about Security Investigator](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/pro-tip-four-things-you-didnt-know-about-security-investigator/50388)

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**Author:** [@Tiit\_Hallas](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Tiit_Hallas)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 25, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/pro-tip-four-things-you-didnt-know-about-security-investigator/50388 "2025-03-25T10:11:05Z")

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Dynatrace Security Investigator is built to speed up evidence-driven investigations on the data in Grail. Use-cases like incident response, root cause analysis or threat hunting are what we’re focusing on and where we st…

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## [Valentine's Day hands-on: Heartbeat failed ❤️](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/valentines-day-hands-on-heartbeat-failed/50227)

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**Author:** [@Gosia\_Murawska](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Gosia_Murawska)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/valentines-day-hands-on-heartbeat-failed/50227 "2025-02-27T21:19:50Z")

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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Dynatrace is happy to bring to you: the Valentine’s Scavenger Hunt! This blog post will guide you through a root cause analysis hands-on exercise. Each assignment introduc…

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## [Christmas hands-on: Who stole Santa’s secret file? 📁](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/christmas-hands-on-who-stole-santa-s-secret-file/49481)

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**Author:** [@Tiit\_Hallas](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Tiit_Hallas)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [December 25, 2024, 8:02am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/christmas-hands-on-who-stole-santa-s-secret-file/49481 "2024-12-25T08:02:02Z")

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With Christmas on the way, Dynatrace is happy to bring to you: the Christmas Scavenger Hunt! This blog post will guide you through an incident response hands-on exercise. Each assignment introduces a goal to reach an…

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## [Dynatrace meets Advent of Code: using DQL for fun](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-meets-advent-of-code-using-dql-for-fun/49132)

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**Author:** [@Tiit\_Hallas](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Tiit_Hallas)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 6, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-meets-advent-of-code-using-dql-for-fun/49132 "2024-12-06T07:22:48Z")

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Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. You don’t need a computer science background to participate - just …

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## [Pro tip: creating DQL filters faster in Security Investigator](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/pro-tip-creating-dql-filters-faster-in-security-investigator/48844)

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**Author:** [@Tiit\_Hallas](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Tiit_Hallas)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 12, 2024, 11:18am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/pro-tip-creating-dql-filters-faster-in-security-investigator/48844 "2024-11-12T11:18:23Z")

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When fetching logs and events from Grail, it is usually needed to create additional filters based on your results. To do it faster, Security Investigator has a bunch of “hidden gems” that allow Engineers to drill into th…
