Getting Started
Once OneAgent is installed and data is flowing, here's how to navigate the platform.
The Universal Search: Ctrl+K
Press Ctrl+K (or Cmd+K on Mac) anywhere in Dynatrace. This is the fastest way to find anything:
Type This What Opens
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hosts Host list with health status
services Service list with response times
dashboards Dashboard list (create or open)
notebooks Notebook list (interactive analysis)
problems Active problems with root cause
settings All configuration settings
workflows Automation workflows
logs Log viewer
🛠 Try it: Press Ctrl+K → "Infrastructure & Operations" → click any host → scroll down to see every process running on it, every service it hosts, and every network connection it makes. Dynatrace discovered all of this automatically from a single agent install.
Key Apps
App What It Does When to Use
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Dashboards Visual tiles with DQL queries Daily monitoring, KPIs
Notebooks Interactive DQL analysis (like Jupyter) Investigation, exploration
Problems Davis AI detected issues Incident response
Distributed Tracing Request-level trace analysis Performance debugging
Logs Log search and analysis Error investigation
Workflows Automation (triggers → actions) Alerts, reports, remediation
Settings All platform configuration Setup, tuning
Account Management
Dynatrace has two levels of management:
Level URL What You Manage
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Environment ENV-ID.apps.dynatrace.com Monitoring, dashboards, alerts
Account myaccount.dynatrace.com Users, groups, policies, billing
Authentication Methods
Method Best For Scope
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API Token Settings, extensions, classic Environment-level
OAuth Client Workflows, dashboards, IAM Account-level (automation)
Platform Token Scripts, integrations User-scoped (long-lived)
💡 For getting started, you don't need any tokens — just log in to the UI. Tokens are for automation and API access, which is covered in Track 4.
The Settings Hierarchy
All configuration in Dynatrace follows the Settings 2.0 pattern:
Settings → Schema ID → Scope → Value
Example:
Schema: builtin:davis.anomaly-detectors
Scope: environment
Value: { title: "High CPU", query: "timeseries avg(dt.host.cpu.usage)..." }
Every setting you see in the UI is a Settings 2.0 schema. You can automate any setting via the API or Terraform.
OneAgent Post-Install Configuration
After installing OneAgent, use oneagentctl to configure it:
# Location: /opt/dynatrace/oneagent/agent/tools/oneagentctl (needs root)
oneagentctl --version # Show version
oneagentctl --get-host-group # Show host group
oneagentctl --set-host-group=production # Change host group
oneagentctl --set-host-tag=environment=prod # Add tag
oneagentctl --get-auto-update-enabled # Check auto-update
oneagentctl --set-auto-update-enabled=false # Pin version
oneagentctl --create-support-archive # Diagnostic bundle
Install parameters: --set-host-group, --set-app-log-content-access=true, --set-monitoring-mode=fullstack|infra-only, --set-host-tag=key=value.