Davis AI

Davis events represent different types of individual incidents, such as metric-threshold breaches, baseline degradations, or point-in-time events, such as process crashes. Dynatrace also detects and processes informational events such as new software deployments, configuration changes, and other event types.

A Davis problem may result from a single event or multiple events, which is often the case in complex environments. To prevent a flood of seemingly unrelated problem alerts for related events in such environments, the Dynatrace AI correlates all events that share the exact root cause into a single, trackable problem. This approach prevents event and alert spamming.

Problems have defined lifespans and are updated in real time with all incoming events and findings. Once a problem is detected, it's listed on your problems feed.

Davis Event Reports

Davis event reports create, update, refresh, or close events within the Davis system. These reports are uniquely identified and linked through their event.name, event.type, and dt.source_entity. This linkage ensures that identical identifiers contribute to a singular event. A new event is generated in the absence of a matching existing event, while a matching event triggers an update to reflect the latest information.

Davis events are enriched with additional fields, as detailed in the Davis event model documentation.

Event reports can be created through various methods, including direct creation via the REST API. Additionally, features like metric events or log events autonomously generate these reports. These features also offer customization capabilities through event templates.

Event

This section contains general event information that can be set on an event report or an event template.

Davis event report config fields

This section contains Davis-specific fields that influence the Davis routine on an event report or an event template.

Davis Events

Every Davis event update is exported to Grail. This includes updates that only refresh the event, which is guaranteed to be at least 1 update every 6 hours.

Events are essential raw data that Davis (the Dynatrace AI engine) considers during automated root-cause analysis to understand the reasons underlying any problems that are detected in your environment. Out of the box, Davis detects more than 80 different built-in system event types, including process crashes, deployment configuration changes, and VM motion events. Using extension points, you can report custom events through OneAgent plugins or via the Dynatrace API.

Davis shows all system events in the context of your data center topology. So you can analyze events in relation to their parent topological components (for example, hosts, processes, or services) and see how they relate to one another.

Query

Searches for all Davis events.

fetch dt.davis.events

Event

This section contains general event information.

Davis event config fields

This section contains fields that influence the Davis routine.

Davis event system fields

This section contains fields that the Davis routine sets.

Settings data

This section contains information on the main settings object that contributes to the event.

Environmental data

This section contains information on entities.

Synthetic data

This section contains synthetic event information.

Davis Problems

Every Davis problem update is exported to Grail. This includes updates that only refresh the problem, which is guaranteed to be at least 1 update every 6 hours.

Problems in Dynatrace represent anomalies in normal behavior or state. Such anomalies can be, for example, a slow service response or user-login process. Whenever a problem is detected, Dynatrace raises a specific problem event indicating such an anomaly.

Raised problems provide insight into their underlying root causes. To identify the root causes of problems, Dynatrace follows a context-aware approach that detects interdependent events across time, processes, hosts, services, applications, and both vertical and horizontal topological monitoring perspectives. Only through such a context-aware approach is it possible to pinpoint the true root causes of problems. For this reason, newly detected anomalous events in your environment won't necessarily result in the immediate raising of a new problem.

Query

Query davis problems.

fetch dt.davis.problems

Searches for all unique Davis problems and return status, title and the display id.

fetch dt.davis.problems
| filter not(dt.davis.is_duplicate)
| fields id=display_id, title=event.name, status=event.status

Searches for all currently active, unique Davis problems and return status, title and the display id.

fetch dt.davis.problems
| filter not(dt.davis.is_duplicate)
| filter event.status == "ACTIVE"
| fields id=display_id, title=event.name, status=event.status

Search for details of a specific problem with a given display id.

fetch dt.davis.problems
| filter not(dt.davis.is_duplicate)
| filter display_id == "P-12345678"
| fields id=display_id, title=event.name, status=event.status

Count the total number of active problems in the last hour.

fetch dt.davis.problems, from:-1h
| filter not(dt.davis.is_duplicate)
| filter event.status == "ACTIVE"
| summarize active_problem_count = count()

Chart the number of currently active problems over the last 24 hours.

fetch dt.davis.problems, from:-24h
| filter event.status == "ACTIVE"
| makeTimeseries active_problems = count(), interval:1h, spread: timeframe(from:event.start, to:coalesce(event.end, now()))

Shows the logs of all entities affected by the problem 'P-12345678'.

fetch logs
| filter dt.source_entity in [
fetch dt.davis.problems
| filter display_id == "P-12345678"
| fields affected_entity_ids
]

Event

This section contains general event information.

Davis system fields

This section contains fields that the Davis routine sets.

Environmental data

This section contains information on entities.