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Upgrade to Latest Dynatrace

  • Latest Dynatrace
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Upgrading to the latest Dynatrace moves your environment to a platform backed by Grail and built for enterprise scale. The upgrade is a phased process: you get oriented with new concepts, reconfigure governance and access, then migrate each area of your observability stack in turn.

Get oriented

The latest Dynatrace replaces management zones and classic configurations with new concepts for data storage, access, and segmentation. Start here before making changes to your environment.

  • Things to know before upgrading to the latest Dynatrace
  • Differences between classic auto-tagging and primary Grail tags
  • Upgrade from management zones to segments
  • Transition from frequent issue detection

Dynatrace Platform Foundations

Set up data access and governance

  • Working with policies: Configure permission policies to control access to Dynatrace data

  • Configure advanced permissions with security context: Restrict data visibility with fine-grained, attribute-based access control

  • Set up Grail permissions for:

    • Logs: Control who can query and manage log data in Grail
    • Metrics: Control who can query and manage metric data in Grail
    • Distributed tracing: Control who can query and manage traces in Grail
    • OneAgent: Control who can access OneAgent data in Grail
    • OpenTelemetry: Control who can access OpenTelemetry data in Grail
    • Kubernetes: Control who can access Kubernetes telemetry in Grail
  • API tokens: Upgrade from classic access tokens to platform tokens

  • Audit logs: Upgrade from classic audit logs to Grail-based audit queries

Platform fundamentals

  • APIs: Upgrade from deprecated APIs to current API endpoints
  • Deprecated Settings schemas: Find removed and replaced Settings schemas and update any automation scripts that reference them

Cost allocation

  • General: Configure cost centers and allocation models for your environment
  • Kubernetes deployments: Allocate costs from Kubernetes deployments to cost centers and products
  • OneAgent deployments: Allocate costs from OneAgent deployments to cost centers and products

Keep problems and alerting working

  • Problems: Upgrade from Problems Classic to the Problems app
  • Metric alerting: Upgrade from classic metric alerting to the Anomaly Detection app
  • Alert notifications: Upgrade from classic alert notifications to alerting and notifications
  • Service-Level Objectives: Upgrade from Service-Level Objectives Classic to Service-Level Objectives

Migrate your data pipeline

  • Processing rules: Upgrade from classic processing rules to OpenPipeline

Upgrade Services Classic

  • Services Classic: Overview of all upgrade guides for Services Classic—service detection, naming, metrics, and queue monitoring.

Preserve metrics and service visibility

  • Service naming: Upgrade from classic service naming rules to telemetry-based naming in the latest Dynatrace
  • Metrics: Upgrade from classic metrics to Grail-powered metrics
  • Metric selectors: Convert your classic metric selectors to DQL equivalents in Grail metrics
  • Runtime metrics: Upgrade runtime metrics from classic to Grail metrics
  • Kubernetes metrics: Upgrade Kubernetes metrics from classic to Grail metrics
  • Service metrics: Upgrade service metrics from classic to Grail metrics
  • Calculated service metrics: Upgrade calculated service metrics from classic to Grail metrics
  • Queue monitoring: Upgrade from classic queue monitoring to service message processing
  • External provider monitoring: Upgrade from classic third-party services to external provider metrics and outbound call discovery
  • RUM metrics: See how RUM Classic metrics map to their Grail metrics equivalents

Get your apps and monitoring surfaces working

  • Dashboards: Upgrade from Dashboards Classic to Dashboards
  • Vulnerabilities: Upgrade from classic vulnerabilities apps to the Vulnerabilities app

Upgrade infrastructure observability and security

  • Log monitoring: Upgrade from Log Monitoring Classic to Log Analytics
    • Conversion to DQL for logs: Convert your classic log monitoring rules to DQL in Log Analytics
  • AWS services: Upgrade from classic AWS services to current AWS cloud services
  • Kubernetes: Upgrade from classic to Kubernetes app monitoring

Upgrade Digital Experience Monitoring

  • RUM: Upgrade from Real User Monitoring Classic to Real User Monitoring