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About the app

Explore Business Events Explore Business Events is the central entry point for understanding, exploring, and operationalizing business events in Dynatrace. It provides links and other applications relevant to business analysis, such as Notebooks and Dashboards. It was designed to:

  • Take you through the Dynatrace business analysis process end-to-end, starting from business event capture, through processing, and analyzing, to displaying final results on dashboards.
  • Help you understand business analytics use cases and address your specific use case, with expert support where needed.
  • Provide a centralized repository of documentation, blog posts, and settings to continuously refine your business analytics setup.
Prerequisites

Permissions

The following table describes the required permissions.

storage:bizevents:read
Is required to read bizevents from Grail
storage:buckets:read
Is required to read system data from Grail
settings:objects:read
Is required to read OneAgent rules
settings:objects:write
Is required to write OneAgent rules
settings:schemas:read
Is required to read OneAgent rules schema
app-settings:objects:read
Is required to read configurations in app settings
storage:filter-segments:read
Read filter segments
storage:events:write
Required for workflow action
state:app-states:read
Is required to read app states
state:app-states:write
Is required to write app states

Installation

Make sure the app is installed in your environment.

Explore business events
Explore business events

Process flow

The Business event process in Dynatrace consists of three main steps: Capture and Process, Analyze, and Create Dashboards. To see a use case covering all steps, go to Business events use case.

Capture and process

Displays all links relevant to business event capture and processing. To see a real-life scenario for capturing and processing business event data, go to the capture section of the end-to-end use case.

Analyze

Provides you with links to two places where you can run your DQL queries: Notebooks and the Logs and event viewer.

  • To see examples of simple and advanced DQL queries for business analysis, go to Analysis and examples.
  • To see the analysis performed as part of the use case, go to Use case analysis part.

Visualize

Provides you with links to places where dashboards can be created. To see an example dashboard created as part of the use case, go to the end-to-end use case.

Dynatrace resources for business events

  • Blog posts supplement the documentation with real-life examples, use cases and how-to guides.
  • Dynatrace live chat and the Dynatrace Community are interactive platforms that provide answers to your questions in real time and offer collaboration possibilities.
  • Direct product links save your time and help you arrive exactly in the place a certain process step takes place, for example at the Capture business events with OneAgent product page.
  • Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) is used to query and analyze your business events, in Notebooks, and the Logs and event viewer.
  • Custom dashboards transform complex data from your queries into easy-to-follow visualizations.
Hub

Explore in Dynatrace Hub

Understand the Dynatrace business analysis process end-to-end.

Related topics

  • View a blog post on business analytics.
  • View the Dynatrace website devoted to business analytics.
  • View the Dynatrace Query Language hub
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