Write the future: Create your own agentic workflows

Imagine commissioning le Carré and Fleming to build your perfect undercover agent: quietly embedded in the system you’re watching. You hand in your mission brief, which includes the target, objective, and behaviors to track. Your agent observes without drawing attention, reporting insights back to you. On cue, the information flow you’ve carefully orchestrated turns signals into actionable intelligence that helps pre-empt risk.

Dynatrace doesn’t write spy fiction. However, even better, Dynatrace now lets you write your own smart agentic workflows that deliver intelligent reports and react to changes in your environment based on your objectives.

Adding generative AI to your workflow

Using the power of gen AI, Davis CoPilot® transforms your workflows into agentic instructions. Davis CoPilot lets you explore data using conversational language, translating complex data and queries into summaries, and provides intelligent recommendations across Dynatrace.

Integrated into Dynatrace Workflows, Davis CoPilot is your toolkit for building smart automations, bringing the power of generative AI into your mission-critical workflows.

By embedding Davis CoPilot in your workflows, you can associate any automation with any number of conversational automations. Your workflows can even perform actions autonomously when combined with precise Davis® AI forecasting, for instance, scaling resources based on forecast demands.

In real time, these workflows monitor live data, summarize critical issues, and identify remediation paths or emerging threats. When scheduled, these smart workflows help you outsource routine tasks, such as alerting stakeholders of costly queries.

Let’s look at some examples of how these smart workflows can help you in your daily work.

Build agentic workflows that respond to critical events

Proactive guiding through complex problem remediation

Let’s assume you want to build an automation that cuts through alert noise and analyzes a problem as it occurs, guiding you through the remediation. When a new problem is detected, Davis CoPilot extracts the problem details, summarizes the situation, and provides tailored remediation guidance. By embedding it into a smart workflow, you can select your preferred automation to automatically syndicate this information, populate a ticket in ServiceNow or Jira, or post it to a dedicated Slack channel.

See how you can set up a workflow automation that automatically sends summaries and remediation guidance when a new problem is detected.

Monitor emerging threats to help you orchestrate a response

Next, you can build an agentic workflow that helps you monitor emerging threats and assess their risk to your environment as vulnerabilities are detected in your tenant. In plain language, you instruct your agent to extract IOCs, query security events in your environment, and correlate them with observability data in your environment. Information provided by the external threat feed is automatically matched against the live context in your tenant. The agent has now collected all the necessary information and provides a reliable risk assessment, along with a plan to orchestrate a response, directly in your Slack channel, ensuring around-the-clock visibility and a rapid response.

Write the future: Build an agentic workflow that autonomously auto-scales your resources

Dynatrace helps you build agents that reason autonomously. The key is to deliver data as precise as Dynatrace forecast capabilities. In this example, we linked the power of Davis AI to forecast demand, with generative AI and GitHub automations. Davis AI predicts the number of resources the hyperscaler infrastructure will need based on forecasted demand. When Davis AI notices a scaling need, Davis CoPilot interprets the data and autonomously edits the manifest using the GitHub automation. Giving you one end-to-end workflow that automatically scales resources up or down based on forecasted needs. To see this in action, watch how this workflow autonomously edits a manifest based on Davis AI suggestions to auto-scale a Kubernetes cluster.

Schedule agentic workflows to optimize routine tasks

Do you feel like sleeping in a little later? Maybe stretching your lunch break a little longer? Running that extra hill without sacrificing your productivity? Scheduling Davis CoPilot into your smart workflow is a great way to automate recurring tasks and save time.

Build an automation that predicts resource consumption

A recurring challenge for SREs is analyzing the full environment to predict future bottlenecks or over-resourcing and continuously translating the data to update stakeholders. Even with great observability in place, you need to ensure that you interpret the data and make timely decisions to inform future provisioning.

By combining Davis AI forecasting automation with Davis CoPilot, you can build an agent that answers key questions, such as which workloads are most resource-intensive, which resources show the most variance, and which require frequent scaling. This automation is capable of highly reliable forecasts, even when data points are limited. The automation interprets the data and emails actionable recommendations directly to you and anyone else who needs to stay informed.

To see this in action, watch the section of this video that explores predicting resource consumption.

Smart workflows that optimize query costs

Scheduling tasks can even help you keep costs lean and efficient. For admins or budget owners, staying within financial limits while maintaining performance is a constant challenge. In this example, we built a smart workflow that identifies the top 20 most expensive queries from the last 24 hours. Davis CoPilot analyzes each query and sends optimization recommendations directly to the query authors via email.

To implement this yourself, tailored to the most expensive queries executed on your tenant, go to our documentation

Conclusion: Adapt your workflows to any stage of your automation journey

These are just a few examples; the applications for it are endless. We’ve designed this workflow action to cater to your organization’s automation appetite. You may want to transform how you keep business stakeholders informed about what’s happening in your environment, leveraging Dynatrace’s highly accurate insights, which are translated into plain language and actionable next steps.

Alternatively, you may be ready to transition towards autonomous operations, where automation not only supports but also acts in a controlled and reliable manner. Davis CoPilot embedded into your workflows opens the door to your agentic journey.

Start your agentic journey and join the Davis CoPilot for Workflows Preview

Davis CoPilot for Workflows is available as a Preview. Sign up now and see how generative intelligence embedded into your workflows transforms your automation. Today, it helps you react faster, optimize more effectively, and collaborate seamlessly. Tomorrow, it will go even further: anticipating needs, orchestrating actions, and enabling truly autonomous reasoning.