# dt-obs-frontends

A skill that teaches your agent to query Dynatrace Real User Monitoring: Core Web Vitals, sessions, frontend errors and frontend-backend linking in DQL.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2500 installs · ★ 167
- Author: Dynatrace
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai/tree/HEAD/skills/dt-obs-frontends/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dt-obs-frontends

## What it does

The skill spells out the RUM data model so the agent picks the right source instead of guessing. Three of them, each for a different question: `dt.frontend.*` metrics for trends and dashboards, `fetch user.events` for a single page view or error, `fetch user.sessions` for bounce rate and session duration. Start with metrics to see the shape of the problem, then drill into events for the why.

Reference files on event characteristics, Web Vitals and session analysis load when a workflow starts, not upfront. Filtering advice is explicit: use `frontend.name` directly. Resolving a name to a Smartscape entity ID and joining it back to `user.events` is the wrong path. Mobile gets its own fields, `app.short_version` and `device.model.identifier`.

Some fields sit in the `builtin-sensitive-user-events-and-sessions` fieldset and stay hidden by default. `client.ip` and `user.identifier` come back as `null`, and any filter or grouping on them quietly returns nothing — worth checking before you blame the query. Access needs a policy statement. The skill targets RUM on the latest Dynatrace; RUM Classic data will not work here. Synthetic monitoring is out of scope.

## Requirements
- Works with: Dynatrace

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --skill dt-obs-frontends -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/dt-obs-frontends/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/dt-obs-frontends/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --skill dt-obs-frontends -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/dt-obs-frontends/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --skill dt-obs-frontends -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/dt-obs-frontends/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai dt-obs-frontends
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/dt-obs-frontends/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --skill dt-obs-frontends -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --path skills/dt-obs-frontends
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/dt-obs-frontends/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --skill dt-obs-frontends -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai/tree/HEAD/skills/dt-obs-frontends/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- trace a jump in LCP back to a specific page
- break frontend errors down by browser and version
- measure bounce rate and session duration per application
- separate real users from synthetic traffic and robots
- link a spike in frontend errors to one API endpoint

## Example prompts
- Show Core Web Vitals by frontend.name for the last day, grouped by device.type
- Find frontend errors on this page and split them by browser.name and browser.version
- Calculate bounce rate and average session duration for the mobile app, excluding synthetic traffic

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: dt-obs-frontends
description: Real User Monitoring (RUM) on Dynatrace — web and mobile frontends. Core Web Vitals, user sessions, page performance, mobile crashes, frontend errors, and frontend-backend linking. Query via `user.events`, `user.sessions`, and `dt.frontend.*` metrics. Does NOT cover synthetic monitoring (HTTP/browser/network checks) — that's a separate domain.
license: Apache-2.0
---

# Frontend Observability (RUM)

Monitor web and mobile frontends using Real User Monitoring with DQL.
Targets **RUM on the latest Dynatrace** — do not use RUM Classic data.

**Concepts and data model:** https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/digital-experience/new-rum-experience/concepts

## Data Model

Three data sources, each for a different question:

| Source | Use for | Granularity |
|--------|---------|-------------|
| `timeseries dt.frontend.*` | Trends, dashboards, alerting | Aggregated metric |
| `fetch user.events` | Root cause, individual page views / requests / clicks / errors | Per-event |
| `fetch user.sessions` | Bounce rate, session duration, session-level aggregates | Per-session |

**Rule of thumb**: start with metrics for the shape of the problem, drill into events for the why. Use sessions when the question is about user journeys, not individual interactions.

Full event model: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/semantic-dictionary/model/rum/user-events

**DQL language reference (functions, syntax, operators):** https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform/grail/dynatrace-query-language

**Key `dt.frontend.*` metrics** (all support dimensions: `frontend.name`, `device.type`, `geo.country.iso_code`, `browser.name`, `os.name`, `dt.rum.user_type`, `dt.smartscape.frontend`):

- `dt.frontend.web.page.largest_contentful_paint` / `dt.frontend.web.page.interaction_to_next_paint` / `dt.frontend.web.page.cumulative_layout_shift` / `dt.frontend.web.page.first_input_delay` — Core Web Vitals
- `dt.frontend.web.navigation.time_to_first_byte` / `dt.frontend.web.navigation.dom_interactive` / `dt.frontend.web.navigation.load_event_end` — Navigation timing
- `dt.frontend.error.count` — Error counts
- `dt.frontend.request.count` / `dt.frontend.request.duration` — Request volume and latency
- `dt.frontend.user_action.count` / `dt.frontend.user_action.duration` — User action volume and duration
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