Smartscape - Core Entities

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• Published Feb 23, 2026

This section contains all entity types that are considered core entities.

smartscapeNodes {HOST, PROCESS, SERVICE, CONTAINER}

Application Observability Service

Smartscape node type: SERVICE

Representation of an Application Observability (AppObs) service entity.

Query

Find all service entities.

smartscapeNodes SERVICE

Count all service relationships, grouped by relationship type.

smartscapeEdges "*"
| filter source_type == "SERVICE"
| fields type, source_id, source_type, target_id, target_type, dt.system.edge_kind
| summarize count(), by:{type}

Count runs_on relationships from services, grouped by target entity type.

smartscapeEdges runs_on
| filter source_type == "SERVICE"
| summarize count(), by:{target_type}

Count belongs_to relationships from services, grouped by target entity type.

smartscapeEdges belongs_to
| filter source_type == "SERVICE"
| summarize count(), by:{target_type}

Traverse all service-to-service call relationships of a service.

smartscapeNodes SERVICE
| filter id == toSmartscapeId("SERCICE-0123456789ABCDEF")
| traverse {"calls"}, {"SERVICE"}, direction:"forward"

Query the average response time for all downstream services called by a specific service (identified by its ID).

timeseries avg(dt.service.request.response_time), filter:dt.smartscape.service in [
  smartscapeEdges "calls"
  | filter source_type == "SERVICE"
  | filter source_id == toSmartscapeId("SERCICE-0123456789ABCDEF")
  | fields target_id
], by:{dt.smartscape.service}

Query the 95th percentile response time for all downstream services called by a specific service (identified by its name).

timeseries responseTime_p95_timeseries = percentile(dt.service.request.response_time, 95), filter:dt.smartscape.service in [
  smartscapeNodes "SERVICE"
  | filter name == "checkout-service"
  | traverse {"calls"}, {"SERVICE"}, direction:"forward"
  | fields id
], by:{dt.smartscape.service}, nonempty: true
| fieldsAdd metricName = "Response time p95"

Fields

The following base fields are used for all entities.

Fields specific to services, available on every service entity.

Relationships

Container

Smartscape node type: CONTAINER

A container entity. Provides the core container fields plus potentially additional platform specific fields.

Query

Load all container entities from Smartscape and get their names.

smartscapeNodes "CONTAINER"
| fields name

Get all hosts that run containers in the "travel-advisor-demo" namespace.

smartscapeNodes CONTAINER
| filter k8s.namespace.name == "travel-advisor-demo"
| traverse runs_on, HOST

Get all containers with their IDs, names, namespace names, and Kubernetes labels.

smartscapeNodes CONTAINER
| fields id, name, k8s.namespace.name, k8s_labels = getNodeField(references[belongs_to.k8s_namespace][0], "tags:k8s.labels")

Fields

The following base fields are used for all entities.

Container fields

Optional fields only used for k8s containers

Relationships

Digital Experience Frontend

Smartscape node type: FRONTEND

Representation of a Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) frontend entity.

Query

Load all FRONTEND entities.

smartscapeNodes FRONTEND

Fields

The following base fields are used for all entities.

Frontend fields

Relationships

Disk

Smartscape node type: DISK

A disk entity. Represents a storage disk attached to a host.

Query

Load all disks and get the host groups of their parent hosts

smartscapeNodes DISK
| fieldsAdd dt.host_group.id = getNodeField(references[belongs_to.host][0], "dt.host_group.id")

Get all disks attached to the sap-hana-db host

smartscapeNodes HOST
| filter name == "sap-hana-db"
| traverse belongs_to, DISK, direction:backward

Fields

The following base fields are used for all entities.

Disk fields

Relationships

Host

Smartscape node type: HOST

A Host entity. Represents either a virtual or physical machine. Provides the core view on given machine from the Operating System perspective.

Query

Find all hosts that belong to the discovery-mode-demo host group.

smartscapeNodes HOST
| filter dt.host_group.id == "discovery-mode-demo"

Find all hosts that belong to the demoability team.

smartscapeNodes HOST
| filter tags[dt_owner_team] == "team-demoability"

Find all resources of hosts that belong to the discovery-mode-demo host group.

smartscapeNodes HOST
| filter dt.host_group.id == "discovery-mode-demo"
| traverse {belongs_to}, {DISK, NETWORK_INTERFACE}, direction:backward

Find all EC2 instances that run hosts with x86 architecture and get their host group IDs.

smartscapeNodes HOST
| filter host.additional_system_info[system.architecture] == "x86"
| traverse runs_on, AWS_EC2_INSTANCE, fieldsKeep:dt.host_group.id
| fields id, name, dt.host_group.id = dt.traverse.history[-1][dt.host_group.id]

Fields

The following base fields are used for all entities.

Contains all fields that are provided by all resources running on AWS.

cloud.provider has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used, otherwise a custom value MAY be used.

Contains all fields that are provided by all resorce running on Azure, including Azure, Core and K8s entities.

Contains all fields that are provided by all GCP entities.

cloud.provider has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used, otherwise a custom value MAY be used.

All fields that are provided by all virtual machine entities.

Host fields

Fields specific to k8s node.

Fields specific to AIX Hosts.

Fields specific to z/OS Hosts.

Fields specific to BOSH Hosts.

Relationships

Network interface

Smartscape node type: NETWORK_INTERFACE

A network interface entity. Represents a network interface attached to a host.

Query

Load all network interfaces and get the host name of their parent hosts

smartscapeNodes NETWORK_INTERFACE
| fieldsAdd host.name = getNodeName(references[belongs_to.host][0])

Find the host to which the network interface with the specified MAC address is attached.

smartscapeNodes NETWORK_INTERFACE
| filter mac == "16:FF:F1:39:CE:99"
| traverse belongs_to, HOST

Fields

The following base fields are used for all entities.

Network interface fields

Relationships

Process

Smartscape node type: PROCESS

The process entity represents a collection of similar processes executed on the same Operating System (native or containerized). The process entity represents a time and spatial aggregation of similar processes, ensuring data continuity between process restarts and grouping together multiple workers performing similar role. In classic Dynatrace corresponding entity is called Process Group Instance (PGI)

Query

Find all NodeJS processes.

smartscapeNodes PROCESS
| expand process.software_technologies
| filter process.software_technologies[type] == "NODE_JS"
| dedup id

Find all hosts that have processes listening on port 8080.

smartscapeNodes PROCESS
| filter in(port, 8080)
| traverse runs_on, HOST

Find all processes with command line arguments "java -jar app.jar".

smartscapeNodes PROCESS
| filter process.metadata[COMMAND_LINE_ARGS] == "java -jar app.jar"

Find all processes that call processes with executable name "java".

smartscapeNodes PROCESS
| filter process.metadata[EXE_NAME] == "java"
| traverse calls, PROCESS, direction:backward

Fields

The following base fields are used for all entities.

Contains fields that share values for all entities belonging to a given process group.

Process fields

Optional fields only used for k8s processes

Relationships