Data explorer
Early Adopter
This feature is currently in Early Adopter release.
To try it out
- In the Dynatrace navigation menu, select Create custom chart.
This opens the standard functionality for creating a custom chart. - Click Try it out in the upper-right of the page.
This opens the Data explorer, which is described below.
The Data explorer greatly enhances your abilities to query and chart metrics.
- Analyze multidimensional metrics, whether built in to Dynatrace or ingested from StatsD, Prometheus, Telegraf, and others channels.
Coming soon: analyze events and logs. - Choose from any of five visualizations: graph, pie, single value, table, or top list.
Coming soon: more visualizations, including a heat map and world map. - Add your visualization right to your dashboards for easy access and sharing.
- Provides foundation for metric calculation in charts on dashboards.
Query components and concepts
Every metric query is composed of multiple optional components:
Query component | Description |
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Metric name |
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Aggregation | Every metric provides the same possible aggregations, which can be specified when selecting AVG , MAX , MIN , SUM , COUNT or MEDIAN .
The aggregation enables you to specify how the results of a metric query are supposed to be aggregated over time and the reported dimensions of the selected metric.
The query will always provide the statistically most accurate results for a given query, even if certain metrics provide different statistics, which depends on the nature of each metric.
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Grouping | By default, a query groups all dimensions using the metric's default aggregation. |
Scope | The scope is determined by any Filter you set.
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Limitations
- 5 metrics maximum per chart
- 20 series per metric
Examples
Table with 2 metrics (split)
In this example, we select metrics CPU usage %
and Memory used %
, break it down by host for both, and display it as a table, so that the rows are hosts and the columns show the metric values per host.
- A:
CPU usage %
,AVG
, byHost
- B:
Memory used %
,AVG
, byHost
- Visualization:
Table
Graph with 2 metrics
In this example, we select the same metrics and display them as a graph.
When you set Visualization to Graph
, the Visual settings are displayed, where you can select how to graph each metric. In this case, CPU usage %
is an area chart (the area between 0 and the value of the metric is filled in) and Memory used %
is a line chart (a single line representing the value of the metric over time).
- A:
CPU usage %
,AVG
, by(everything)
- B:
Memory used %
,AVG
, by(everything)
- Visualization:
Graph
- Visual settings:
- A =
Area chart
- B =
Line chart
- A =
Single value (1st metric only)
- A:
CPU usage %
,AVG
, by(everything)
- B:
Memory used %
,AVG
, by(everything)
- Visualization:
Single value
Pie (1st metric only, split)
- A:
CPU usage %
,AVG
, byHost
- B:
Memory used %
,AVG
, by(everything)
- Visualization:
Pie
Top list (1st metric only, split)
- A:
CPU usage %
,AVG
, byHost
- B:
Memory used %
,AVG
, by(everything)
- Visualization:
Top list