About#
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Workshop Overview#
This workshop is designed to help participants understand how to scale log analytics using Dynatrace, particularly leveraging its Grail-powered Log Management and Analytics capabilities. It’s hands-on and intended for technical users who want to explore log ingestion, querying, and visualization at enterprise scale.
Lab tasks:
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About
- Understand the purpose of this workshop and what will be accomplished
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Getting Started
- Complete prerequisites before starting the workshop
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Codespaces
- Deploy Kubernetes cluster with demo applications used during the workshop
- Deploy Dynatrace configurations (such as workshop notebooks) using Monaco
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Deploy Dynatrace
- Deploy Dynatrace on Kubernetes for full-stack observability with logs in context
- Validate observability signals, including logs
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Scaling Log Analytics
- Learn the best practices of scaling log analytics with Dynatrace
- Reference presentation companion asset
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Configure Dynatrace
- Configure Dynatrace using the best practices covered in scaling log analytics
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DQL Exercises
- Learn how to use Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) to perform fast and powerful analytics on your observability data, including logs
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Anomaly Detection
- Leverage Dynatrace's Davis AI to detect anomalies from log data to identify issues and resolve them faster
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Dashboards
- Learn how to visualize observability signals, including logs, using the powerful and easy to use dashboards in Dynatrace
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Resources
- Additional resources available to continue your log analytics journey with Dynatrace, after completing the workshop
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Cleanup
- Tear down and clean up the workshop assets after its completion
Technical Specification#
Technologies Used#
- Dynatrace
- Kubernetes Kind
- tested on Kind tag 0.27.0
- Dynatrace Operator
- tested on v1.7.0 (September 2025)
- Dynatrace OneAgent
- tested on v1.319 (July 2025)
Reference Architecture#
Continue#
In the next section, we'll review the prerequisites for this lab needed before launching our Codespaces instance.