Dynatrace MCP Server

The local Dynatrace MCP server allows AI Assistants to interact with the Dynatrace observability platform, bringing real-time observability data directly into your development workflow.

Note: This product is not officially supported by Dynatrace.

If you need help, please contact us via GitHub Issues if you have feature requests, questions, or need help.

Quickstart

You can add this MCP server to your MCP Client like VSCode, Claude, Cursor, Amazon Q, Windsurf, ChatGPT, or Github Copilot via the npmjs package @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server, and type stdio. You can find more details about the configuration for different AI Assistants, Agents and MCP Clients in the Configuration section below.

Furthermore, you need your Dynatrace environment URL, e.g., https://abc12345.apps.dynatrace.com, as well as a Platform Token, e.g., dt0s16.SAMPLE.abcd1234, with required scopes.

Depending on your MCP Client, you need to configure these as environment variables or as settings in the UI:

DT_ENVIRONMENT (string, e.g., https://abc12345.apps.dynatrace.com) - URL to your Dynatrace Platform (do not use Dynatrace classic URLs like abc12345.live.dynatrace.com)
DT_PLATFORM_TOKEN (string, e.g., dt0s16.SAMPLE.abcd1234) - Recommended: Dynatrace Platform Token

Once you are done, we recommend looking into example prompts, like Get all details of the entity 'my-service' or Show me error logs. Please mind that these prompts lead to executing DQL statements which may incur costs in accordance to your licence.

Architecture

Use cases

Real-time observability - Fetch production-level data for early detection and proactive monitoring
Contextual debugging - Fix issues with full context from monitored exceptions, logs, and anomalies
Security insights - Get detailed vulnerability analysis and security problem tracking
Natural language queries - Use AI-powered DQL generation and explanation
Multi-phase incident investigation - Systematic 4-phase approach with automated impact assessment
Advanced transaction analysis - Precise root cause identification with file/line-level accuracy
Cross-data source correlation - Connect problems → spans → logs with trace ID correlation
DevOps automation - Deployment health gates with automated promotion/rollback logic
Security compliance monitoring - Multi-cloud compliance assessment with evidence-based investigation

Capabilities

List and get problem details from your services (for example Kubernetes)
List and get security problems / vulnerability details
Execute DQL (Dynatrace Query Language) and retrieve logs, events, spans and metrics
Send Slack messages (via Slack Connector)
Set up notification Workflow (via Dynatrace AutomationEngine)
Get more information about a monitored entity
Get Ownership of an entity

Costs

Important: While this local MCP server is provided for free, using certain capabilities to access data in Dynatrace Grail may incur additional costs based on your Dynatrace consumption model. This affects execute_dql tool and other capabilities that query Dynatrace Grail storage, and costs depend on the volume (GB scanned).

Before using this MCP server extensively, please:

Review your current Dynatrace consumption model and pricing
Understand the cost implications of the specific data you plan to query (logs, events, metrics) - see Dynatrace Pricing and Rate Card
Start with smaller timeframes (e.g., 12h-24h) and make use of buckets to reduce the cost impact
Set an appropriate DT_GRAIL_QUERY_BUDGET_GB environment variable (default: 1000 GB) to control and monitor your Grail query consumption

Grail Budget Tracking:

The MCP server includes built-in budget tracking for Grail queries to help you monitor and control costs:

Set DT_GRAIL_QUERY_BUDGET_GB (default: 1000 GB) to define your session budget limit
The server tracks bytes scanned across all Grail queries in the current session
You'll receive warnings when approaching 80% of your budget
Budget exceeded alerts help prevent unexpected high consumption
Budget resets when you restart the MCP server session

To understand costs that occured:

Execute the following DQL statement in a notebook to see how much bytes have been queried from Grail (Logs, Events, etc...):

fetch dt.system.events
| filter event.kind == "QUERY_EXECUTION_EVENT" and contains(client.client_context, "dynatrace-mcp")
| sort timestamp desc
| fields timestamp, query_id, query_string, scanned_bytes, table, bucket, user.id, user.email, client.client_context
| maketimeSeries sum(scanned_bytes), by: { user.email, user.id, table }

AI-Powered Assistance (Preview)

Natural Language to DQL - Convert plain English queries to Dynatrace Query Language
DQL Explanation - Get plain English explanations of complex DQL queries
AI Chat Assistant - Get contextual help and guidance for Dynatrace questions
Feedback System - Provide feedback to improve AI responses over time

Note: While Davis CoPilot AI is generally available (GA), the Davis CoPilot APIs are currently in preview. For more information, visit the Davis CoPilot Preview Community.

🎯 AI-Powered Observability Workshop Rules

Enhance your AI assistant with comprehensive Dynatrace observability analysis capabilities through our streamlined workshop rules. These rules provide hierarchical workflows for security, compliance, incident response, and distributed systems investigation.

🚀 Quick Setup for AI Assistants

Copy the comprehensive rule files from the dynatrace-agent-rules/rules/ directory to your AI assistant's rules directory:

IDE-Specific Locations:

Amazon Q: .amazonq/rules/ (project) or ~/.aws/amazonq/rules/ (global)
Cursor: .cursor/rules/ (project) or via Settings → Rules (global)
Windsurf: .windsurfrules/ (project) or via Customizations → Rules (global)
Cline: .clinerules/ (project) or ~/Documents/Cline/Rules/ (global)
GitHub Copilot: .github/copilot-instructions.md (project only)

Then initialize the agent in your AI chat:

load dynatrace mcp

🏗️ Enhanced Analysis Capabilities

The workshop rules unlock advanced observability analysis modes:

🚨 Incident Response & Problem Investigation

4-phase structured investigation workflow (Detection → Impact → Root Cause → Resolution)
Cross-data source correlation (problems → logs → spans → metrics)
Kubernetes-aware incident analysis with namespace and pod context
User impact assessment with Davis AI integration

📊 Comprehensive Data Investigation

Unified log-service-process analysis in single workflow
Business logic error detection patterns
Deployment correlation analysis with ArgoCD/GitOps integration
Golden signals monitoring (Rate, Errors, Duration, Saturation)

🔗 Advanced Transaction Analysis

Precise root cause identification with file/line numbers
Exception stack trace analysis with business context
Multi-service cascade failure analysis
Performance impact correlation across distributed systems

🛡️ Enhanced Security & Compliance

Latest-scan analysis prevents outdated data aggregation
Multi-cloud compliance (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes)
Evidence-based investigation with detailed remediation paths
Risk-based scoring with team-specific guidance

⚡ DevOps Automation & SRE

Deployment health gates with automated promotion/rollback
SLO/SLI automation with error budget calculations
Infrastructure as Code remediation with auto-generated templates
Alert optimization workflows with pattern recognition

📁 Hierarchical Rule Architecture

The rules are organized in a context-window optimized structure:

rules/
├── DynatraceMcpIntegration.md                    # 🎯 MAIN ORCHESTRATOR
├── workflows/                                    # 🔧 ANALYSIS WORKFLOWS
│   ├── incidentResponse.md                       # Core incident investigation
│   ├── DynatraceSecurityCompliance.md           # Security & compliance analysis
│   ├── DynatraceDevOpsIntegration.md            # CI/CD automation
│   └── dataSourceGuides/                        # 📊 DATA ANALYSIS GUIDES
│       ├── dataInvestigation.md                 # Logs, services, processes
│       └── DynatraceSpanAnalysis.md             # Transaction tracing
└── reference/                                   # 📚 TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
    ├── DynatraceQueryLanguage.md                # DQL syntax foundation
    ├── DynatraceExplore.md                      # Field discovery patterns
    ├── DynatraceSecurityEvents.md               # Security events schema
    └── DynatraceProblemsSpec.md                 # Problems schema reference

Key Architectural Benefits:

All files under 6,500 tokens - Compatible with most LLM context limits
Hierarchical organization - Clear entry points and specialized guides
Eliminated circular references - No more confusing cross-referencing webs
DQL-first approach - Prefer flexible queries over rigid MCP calls

For detailed information about the workshop rules, see the Rules README.

Configuration

You can add this MCP server (using STDIO) to your MCP Client like VS Code, Claude, Cursor, Amazon Q Developer CLI, Windsurf Github Copilot via the package @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server.

We recommend to always set it up for your current workspace instead of using it globally.

VS Code

{
  "servers": {
    "npx-dynatrace-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "args": ["-y", "@dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest"],
      "envFile": "${workspaceFolder}/.env"
    }
  }
}

Please note: In this config, the ${workspaceFolder} variable is used. This only works if the config is stored in the current workspaces, e.g., <your-repo>/.vscode/mcp.json. Alternatively, this can also be stored in user-settings, and you can define env as follows:

{
  "servers": {
    "npx-dynatrace-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "DT_PLATFORM_TOKEN": "",
        "DT_ENVIRONMENT": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dynatrace-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "DT_PLATFORM_TOKEN": "",
        "DT_ENVIRONMENT": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

Amazon Q Developer CLI

The Amazon Q Developer CLI provides an interactive chat experience directly in your terminal. You can ask questions, get help with AWS services, troubleshoot issues, and generate code snippets without leaving your command line environment.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dynatrace-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "DT_PLATFORM_TOKEN": "",
        "DT_ENVIRONMENT": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

This configuration should be stored in <your-repo>/.amazonq/mcp.json.

HTTP Server Mode (Alternative)

For scenarios where you need to run the MCP server as an HTTP service instead of using stdio (e.g., for stateful sessions, load balancing, or integration with web clients), you can use the HTTP server mode:

Running as HTTP server:

# Get help and see all available options
npx -y @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest --help

# Run with HTTP server on default port 3000
npx -y @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest --http

# Run with custom port (using short or long flag)
npx -y @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest --server -p 8080
npx -y @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest --http --port 3001

# Run with custom host/IP (using short or long flag)
npx -y @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest --http --host 127.0.0.1
npx -y @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest --http -H 192.168.0.1

# Check version
npx -y @dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-mcp-server@latest --version

Configuration for MCP clients that support HTTP transport:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dynatrace-http": {
      "url": "http://localhost:3000",
      "transport": "http"
    }
  }
}

Rule File

For efficient result retrieval from Dynatrace, please consider creating a rule file (e.g., .github/copilot-instructions.md, .amazonq/rules/), instructing coding agents on how to get more details for your component/app/service. Here is an example for easytrade, please adapt the names and filters to fit your use-cases and components:

# Observability

We use Dynatrace as an Observability solution. This document provides instructions on how to get data for easytrade from Dynatrace using DQL.

## How to get any data for my App

Depending on the query and tool used, the following filters can be applied to narrow down results:

* `contains(entity.name, "easytrade")`
* `contains(affected_entity.name, "easytrade")`
* `contains(container.name, "easytrade")`

For best results, you can combine these filters with an `OR` operator.

## Logs

To fetch logs for easytrade, execute `fetch logs | filter contains(container.name, "easyatrade")`.
For fetching just error-logs, add `| filter loglevel == "ERROR"`.

Environment Variables

You can set up authentication via Platform Tokens (recommended) or OAuth Client via the following environment variables:

DT_ENVIRONMENT (string, e.g., https://abc12345.apps.dynatrace.com) - URL to your Dynatrace Platform (do not use Dynatrace classic URLs like abc12345.live.dynatrace.com)
DT_PLATFORM_TOKEN (string, e.g., dt0s16.SAMPLE.abcd1234) - Recommended: Dynatrace Platform Token
OAUTH_CLIENT_ID (string, e.g., dt0s02.SAMPLE) - Alternative: Dynatrace OAuth Client ID (for advanced use cases)
OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET (string, e.g., dt0s02.SAMPLE.abcd1234) - Alternative: Dynatrace OAuth Client Secret (for advanced use cases)
DT_GRAIL_QUERY_BUDGET_GB (number, default: 1000) - Budget limit in GB (base 1000) for Grail query bytes scanned per session. The MCP server tracks your Grail usage and warns when approaching or exceeding this limit.

Platform Tokens are recommended for most use cases as they provide a simpler authentication flow. OAuth Clients should only be used when specific OAuth features are required.

For more information, please have a look at the documentation about creating a Platform Token in Dynatrace, as well as creating an OAuth Client in Dynatrace for advanced scenarios.

In addition, depending on the features you use, the following variables can be configured:

SLACK_CONNECTION_ID (string) - connection ID of a Slack Connection

Scopes for Authentication

Depending on the features you are using, the following scopes are needed:

Available for both Platform Tokens and OAuth Clients:

app-engine:apps:run - needed for almost all tools
app-engine:functions:run - needed for for almost all tools
environment-api:entities:read - for retrieving ownership details from monitored entities (currently not available for Platform Tokens)
automation:workflows:read - read Workflows
automation:workflows:write - create and update Workflows
automation:workflows:run - run Workflows
storage:buckets:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read all system data stored on Grail
storage:logs:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read logs for reliability guardian validations
storage:metrics:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read metrics for reliability guardian validations
storage:bizevents:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read bizevents for reliability guardian validations
storage:spans:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read spans from Grail
storage:entities:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read Entities from Grail
storage:events:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read Events from Grail
storage:security.events:read- needed for execute_dql tool to read Security Events from Grail
storage:system:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read System Data from Grail
storage:user.events:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read User events from Grail
storage:user.sessions:read - needed for execute_dql tool to read User sessions from Grail
davis-copilot:conversations:execute - execute conversational skill (chat with Copilot)
davis-copilot:nl2dql:execute - execute Davis Copilot Natural Language (NL) to DQL skill
davis-copilot:dql2nl:execute - execute DQL to Natural Language (NL) skill
email:emails:send - needed for send_email tool to send emails
settings:objects:read - needed for reading ownership information and Guardians (SRG) from settings

Note: Please ensure that settings:objects:read is used, and not the similarly named scope app-settings:objects:read.

Important: Some features requiring environment-api:entities:read will only work with OAuth Clients. For most use cases, Platform Tokens provide all necessary functionality.

✨ Example prompts ✨

Use these example prompts as a starting point. Just copy them into your IDE or agent setup, adapt them to your services/stack/architecture, and extend them as needed. They're here to help you imagine how real-time observability and automation work together in the MCP context in your IDE.

Basic Queries & AI Assistance

Find a monitored entity

Get all details of the entity 'my-service'

Find error logs

Show me error logs

Write a DQL query from natural language:

Show me error rates for the payment service in the last hour

Explain a DQL query:

What does this DQL do?
fetch logs | filter dt.source_entity == 'SERVICE-123' | summarize count(), by:{severity} | sort count() desc

Chat with Davis CoPilot:

How can I investigate slow database queries in Dynatrace?

Send email notifications:

Send an email notification about the incident to the responsible team at team@example.com with CC to manager@example.com

Advanced Incident Investigation

Multi-phase incident response:

Our checkout service is experiencing high error rates. Start a systematic 4-phase incident investigation:
1. Detect and triage the active problems
2. Assess user impact and affected services
3. Perform cross-data source analysis (problems → spans → logs)
4. Identify root cause with file/line-level precision

Cross-service failure analysis:

We have cascading failures across our microservices architecture.
Analyze the entity relationships and trace the failure propagation from the initial problem
through all downstream services. Show me the correlation timeline.

Security & Compliance Analysis

Latest-scan vulnerability assessment:

Perform a comprehensive security analysis using the latest scan data:
- Check for new vulnerabilities in our production environment
- Focus on critical and high-severity findings
- Provide evidence-based remediation paths
- Generate risk scores with team-specific guidance

Multi-cloud compliance monitoring:

Run a compliance assessment across our AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes environments.
Check for configuration drift and security posture changes in the last 24 hours.

DevOps & SRE Automation

Deployment health gate analysis:

Our latest deployment is showing performance degradation.
Run deployment health gate analysis with:
- Golden signals monitoring (Rate, Errors, Duration, Saturation)
- SLO/SLI validation with error budget calculations
- Generate automated rollback recommendation if needed

Infrastructure as Code remediation:

Generate Infrastructure as Code templates to remediate the current alert patterns.
Include automated scaling policies and resource optimization recommendations.

Deep Transaction Analysis

Business logic error investigation:

Our payment processing is showing intermittent failures.
Perform advanced transaction analysis:
- Extract exception details with full stack traces
- Correlate with deployment events and ArgoCD changes
- Identify the exact code location causing the issue

Performance correlation analysis:

Analyze the performance impact across our distributed system for the slow checkout flow.
Show me the complete trace analysis with business context and identify bottlenecks.

Traditional Use Cases (Enhanced)

Find open vulnerabilities on production, setup alert:

I have this code snippet here in my IDE, where I get a dependency vulnerability warning for my code.
Check if I see any open vulnerability/cve on production.
Analyze a specific production problem.
Setup a workflow that sends Slack alerts to the #devops-alerts channel when availability problems occur.

Debug intermittent 503 errors:

Our load balancer is intermittently returning 503 errors during peak traffic.
Pull all recent problems detected for our front-end services and
run a query to correlate error rates with service instance health indicators.
I suspect we have circuit breakers triggering, but need confirmation from the telemetry data.

Correlate memory issue with logs:

There's a problem with high memory usage on one of our hosts.
Get the problem details and then fetch related logs to help understand
what's causing the memory spike? Which file in this repo is this related to?

Trace request flow analysis:

Our users are experiencing slow checkout processes.
Can you execute a DQL query to show me the full request trace for our checkout flow,
so I can identify which service is causing the bottleneck?

Analyze Kubernetes cluster events:

Our application deployments seem to be failing intermittently.
Can you fetch recent events from our "production-cluster"
to help identify what might be causing these deployment issues?

Troubleshooting

Authentication Issues

In most cases, authentication issues are related to missing scopes or invalid tokens. Please ensure that you have added all required scopes as listed above.

For Platform Tokens:

Verify your Platform Token has all the necessary scopes listed in the "Scopes for Authentication" section
Ensure your token is valid and not expired
Check that your user has the required permissions in your Dynatrace Environment

For OAuth Clients: In case of OAuth-related problems, you can troubleshoot SSO/OAuth issues based on our Dynatrace Developer Documentation.

It is recommended to test access with the following API (which requires minimal scopes app-engine:apps:run and app-engine:functions:run):

Use OAuth Client ID and Secret to retrieve a Bearer Token (only valid for a couple of minutes):

curl --request POST 'https://sso.dynatrace.com/sso/oauth2/token' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
  --data-urlencode 'client_id={your-client-id}' \
  --data-urlencode 'client_secret={your-client-secret}' \
  --data-urlencode 'scope=app-engine:apps:run app-engine:functions:run'

Use access_token from the response of the above call as the bearer-token in the next call:

curl -X GET https://abc12345.apps.dynatrace.com/platform/management/v1/environment \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {your-bearer-token}'

You should retrieve a result like this:

{
  "environmentId": "abc12345",
  "createTime": "2023-01-01T00:10:57.123Z",
  "blockTime": "2025-12-07T00:00:00Z",
  "state": "ACTIVE"
}

Problem accessing data on Grail

Grail has a dedicated section about permissions in the Dynatrace Docs. Please refer to https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/discover-dynatrace/platform/grail/data-model/assign-permissions-in-grail for more details.

Telemetry

The Dynatrace MCP Server includes sending Telemetry Data via Dynatrace OpenKit to help improve the product. This includes:

Server start events
Tool usage (which tools are called, success/failure, execution duration)
Error tracking for debugging and improvement

Privacy and Opt-out:

Telemetry is enabled by default but can be disabled by setting DT_MCP_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true
No sensitive data from your Dynatrace environment is tracked
Only anonymous usage statistics and error information are collected
Usage statistics and error data are transmitted to Dynatrace’s analytics endpoint

Configuration options:

DT_MCP_DISABLE_TELEMETRY (boolean, default: false) - Disable Telemetry
DT_MCP_TELEMETRY_APPLICATION_ID (string, default: dynatrace-mcp-server) - Application ID for tracking
DT_MCP_TELEMETRY_ENDPOINT_URL (string, default: Dynatrace endpoint) - OpenKit endpoint URL
DT_MCP_TELEMETRY_DEVICE_ID (string, default: auto-generated) - Device identifier for tracking

To disable usage tracking, add this to your environment:

DT_MCP_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true

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