Dynatrace Assist prompt examples
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Dynatrace Assist can help answer your questions for a variety of different topics and use cases that relate to Dynatrace specifically, as well as software, observability, and technology in general. See the examples below to understand what kind of questions Dynatrace Assist can help you with.
We recommend that you start a new conversation for a new topic to improve Dynatrace Assist response accuracy.
Ask about your environment
With agentic AI enabled, Dynatrace Assist can use skills, reference files, and MCP tools to query and analyze data, which allows you to request in-depth, multi-step analysis of your environment.
Ask about platform and costs
- Show me my DPS consumption breakdown by team for the last 30 days.
- Which services are the top cost drivers and how is spend trending?
- Forecast my platform costs for the next 2 weeks based on current usage.
- Set up a chargeback report showing metric ingest costs per namespace.
Ask about Dynatrace Query Language (DQL)
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Write and run a DQL query to find the top 10 slowest services in the last hour.
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Explain what this DQL query does: timeseries avg(dt.host.cpu.usage).
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Fix my DQL query
{your_query}and execute it.You need to provide a query for this prompt.
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Build a query joining logs and spans for a
{your_trace_id}trace ID and show me the results.You need to provide a trace ID for this prompt.
Ask about infrastructure
Ask about hosts
- Predict the future CPU usage for my hosts based on historical data.
- Which hosts have the highest CPU right now, and are there any active problems linked to them?
- Forecast disk space exhaustion for my top 5 hosts over the next 24 hours.
- Detect anomalies in memory usage across all Linux hosts in the last 2 hours.
Ask about Kubernetes
- Show all OOMKilled pods in the last hour and correlate with cluster events.
- Which namespaces are over-provisioned? Show CPU request vs actual usage.
- Find privileged containers and check them for critical CVEs.
- Detect anomalies in pod restart rates across all my clusters.
Ask about cloud infrastructure
Ask about AWS
- Build a consolidated cost waste report. Find: (1) unattached EBS volumes with their sizes grouped by type; (2) stopped EC2 instances that still have volumes attached; (3) RDS cluster snapshots of type manual that exist in the account.
- Show me all EC2 instances by region and flag any with open critical vulnerabilities.
- Find unattached EBS volumes and estimate their cost impact.
- Which RDS databases are publicly accessible and have compliance findings?
- Analyze Lambda cold start trends and detect any anomalies.
Ask about Azure
- List all Azure VMs and show any failed compliance checks against CIS benchmarks.
- Show AKS cluster resource usage and flag over-provisioned node pools.
- Audit Key Vault and storage accounts for security misconfigurations.
- Are there any active problems affecting my Azure App Services right now?
Ask about logs
- Show ERROR logs from the payment service and extract the most common failure patterns.
- Correlate log error spikes with active problems in the last hour.
- What are the top log patterns across all services in the last 30 minutes?
- Find logs matching a specific trace ID and summarize what went wrong.
Ask about problems
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Concisely summarize all open problems, and highlight those that need immediate remediation.
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What active problems do I have right now and what is their root cause?
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Give me full details on problem
{your_problem_id}and find relevant troubleshooting guides.You need to provide a problem ID (for example,
P-12345) for this prompt. -
Which problems have been open the longest and what services are affected?
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Show me all problems from the last 7 days and identify recurring patterns.
Ask about application performance
Ask about services
- I want to identify processes experiencing a cascading failure pattern — where both exception count AND timeout count are simultaneously elevated. For each process group, calculate what fraction of ERROR logs are exception and what fraction are timeout. List only the services where both fractions exceed 20% of their error logs, and rank them by combined anomaly score.
- What is the p95 response time for my checkout service, and has it breached SLA in the last 24 hours?
- Detect anomalies in error rates across all services using seasonal baselines.
- Alert me if any service response time exceeds 2 seconds. Check now.
- Which services have active problems and what is their current error rate?
- Analyze service to service relationships for the astroshop-checkout service.
Ask about traces
- Find the slowest database spans in the last hour and detect any sudden latency spikes.
- Show all failed HTTP 500 traces for my payment service and correlate with error logs.
- Detect changepoints in span duration for my order service over the last 6 hours.
- Trace a
{specific_request}end-to-end and extract log patterns from the same timeframe.You need to provide a request ID for this prompt.
Ask about frontend
- What are the Web Vitals for my homepage and have any metrics degraded recently?
- Detect sudden changes in mobile crash rates by app version.
- Forecast user session volume for the next 4 hours based on today's trend.
- Show frontend error trends and flag any anomalies in the last 2 hours.
Ask about security in your environment
- Provide a detailed overview of the active security vulnerabilities and recommendations for remediation.
- Show me all critical CVEs affecting my running services right now.
- Which Kubernetes workloads have the most failed CIS compliance checks?
- Summarize all security findings from AWS GuardDuty and Dynatrace in the last 24 hours.
- Find vulnerabilities with public exploits available on internet-exposed services.
Ask about Dynatrace
With generative AI enabled, Dynatrace Assist can use official Dynatrace sources and portals to generate responses to your prompts. You can ask any questions about Dynatrace, such as installation or getting started. For the list of sources used by the generative Dynatrace Assist, see Generative AI sources.
Since the functionality offered by Dynatrace Intelligence generative AI is limited to supporting narrow use-cases, Dynatrace Assist won't generate queries if you haven't enabled agentic AI. Thus, we recommend using Quick Analysis in 
Notebooks and 
Dashboards to generate DQL queries, or to enable agentic AI for anything other than general help and onboarding questions.
Get started with Dynatrace
- How do I get started with sending OpenTelemetry to Dynatrace?
- What are Dynatrace workflows, how do I get started with them, and how will this improve the way I work with Dynatrace?
- Introduce all basic DQL commands and provide examples of each one.
Understand how Dynatrace works
- What is the difference between an event and a problem in Dynatrace?
- How is the Dynatrace Security Score calculated, and why is this important for my environment?
- What are the reasons why I can’t find historical data, and how can I fix this?
How to configure Dynatrace
- How can I configure an SLO?
- How do I set up an alert?
- How do I set a maintenance window via API?
Get help with onboarding to Dynatrace App development
- What is the Dynatrace AppEngine and how do I get started with building my own app?
- What are the requirements for using the Dynatrace App Toolkit? What are the tutorial steps for getting started?
- Does Dynatrace have a design system and how can it help me build an app?