# dt-obs-problems

A skill for investigating Dynatrace problems: finds the root cause entity, measures user impact, and correlates events with logs and metrics.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2700 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-problems/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dt-obs-problems

## What it does

The skill teaches an agent to work through problems Dynatrace detects on its own. It queries the `dt.davis.problems` source in DQL: lists active problems, pulls the root cause for an ID like `P-12345`, counts affected users, and shows which entities fall inside the blast radius.

Inside are ready query patterns and a field reference. The agent knows status lives in `event.status` with values `ACTIVE` and `CLOSED`, not in `status`, and that duplicates get filtered with `not(dt.davis.is_duplicate)`. Categories are covered too: `AVAILABILITY`, `ERROR`, `SLOWDOWN`, `RESOURCE`, `CUSTOM`. A separate path handles trending — recurring problems and history over a window.

Scope is narrow on purpose. The skill will not explain existing queries, answer product documentation questions, search logs, or do distributed tracing. Host-level resource monitoring is out as well. You need access to Dynatrace data, because the queries have nowhere to go without it.

## Requirements
- Works with: Dynatrace, Kubernetes

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/dt-obs-problems/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-problems
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai --skill dt-obs-problems -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-problems/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- list active problems and rank them by impact
- find the root cause entity behind a specific problem
- measure how many users a failure hit
- spot problems that keep recurring over a month
- trace what broke inside a Kubernetes environment

## Example prompts
- Show active problems from the last 2 hours, sorted by affected users
- Which entity is the root cause of P-12345 and what else did it affect?
- Are there recurring problems over the last 30 days?

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

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```text
---
name: dt-obs-problems
description: >-
  DAVIS problem analysis including root cause identification, impact assessment,
  and correlation with other telemetry. Use when querying or investigating detected problems.
  Trigger: "active problems", "root cause analysis", "problem impact", "affected users",
  "list problems", "P-12345 details", "recurring problems", "problem history",
  "problem trending", "blast radius", "which entity caused the problem",
  "problems affecting Kubernetes", "problems by service".
  Do NOT use for explaining existing queries, product documentation questions, generic
  log searching, distributed tracing, or host-level resource monitoring.
license: Apache-2.0
---

# Problem Analysis Skill

Analyze Dynatrace AI-detected problems including root cause identification, impact assessment, and correlation with logs and metrics.

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## Use Cases

### 1. Active Problem Triage
- **Goal:** List and prioritize currently active problems
- **Trigger:** "active problems", "what problems are open", "current issues", "availability issues"
- **Done:** Prioritized list of active problems with category, user impact, and display IDs

### 2. Root Cause Investigation
- **Goal:** Identify the root cause entity for a specific problem
- **Trigger:** "root cause of P-12345", "what caused this problem", "which entity is the root cause"
- **Done:** Root cause entity identified with affected entity list and blast radius

### 3. Problem Trending
- **Goal:** Analyze problem patterns over time to identify recurring issues
- **Trigger:** "recurring problems", "problem history", "problem trends last 30 days"
- **Done:** Trend data showing problem frequency, recurring root causes, and resolution times

---

## Overview

Dynatrace automatically detects anomalies, performance degradations, and failures across your environment, creating **problems** that aggregate related alert, warning and info-level events and provide root cause and impact insights.

### What are Problems?

Problems are automatically detected, software and infrastructure health and resilience issues that:

- **Automatically correlate** related alert, warning, and info-level events across services, infrastructure, frontend applications, and user sessions
- **Identify root causes** using causal analysis of Smartscape dependencies
- **Assess business impact** by tracking affected users and services
- **Reduce alert noise** by grouping related symptoms into single problems that share the same root cause and impact
- **Track problem lifecycle** from early detection through resolution

### Event Kinds

The `event.kind` field (stable, permission) identifies the high-level event type:
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