What is dynatrace-dql-kb copilot-instructions.md?

A set of instructions for working with Dynatrace Query Language, the language used to search and analyse monitoring data in Dynatrace. It includes commands, metric names, rules, and examples of incorrect and correct queries.

Use it when writing, checking, or explaining Dynatrace queries and when starting work in the related knowledge-base project.

It helps prevent invalid or misleading monitoring queries caused by unfamiliar syntax or metric names.

How aachtenberg/dynatrace-dql-kb configures GitHub Copilot

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to aachtenberg/dynatrace-dql-kb. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aachtenberg/dynatrace-dql-kb

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 2,086 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,086 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02086	$0.02086
Opus 5.5	$0.00834	$0.00834
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00417	$0.00417
Haiku 4.5	$0.00209	$0.00209

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 50658fa291ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dynatrace-dql-kb copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) — Copilot Instructions

When generating DQL queries, follow these rules exactly. DQL is NOT SQL.

Starting Commands

Data type	Command	Example
Metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, request counts)	`timeseries`	`timeseries avg(dt.host.cpu.usage), by:{dt.entity.host}`
Logs	`fetch logs`	`fetch logs \| filter status == "ERROR"`
Events	`fetch events`	`fetch events \| filter event.type == "K8S_EVENT"`
Business events	`fetch bizevents`	`fetch bizevents \| filter event.type == "com.example.purchase"`
Spans/traces	`fetch spans`	`fetch spans \| filter span.kind == "server"`
Problems (issues, incidents, alerts)	`fetch dt.davis.problems`	`fetch dt.davis.problems, from:-7d \| filter event.status == "ACTIVE"`
Entities	`fetch dt.entity.*`	`fetch dt.entity.host \| fields id, entity.name`
Metric discovery	`metrics`	`metrics \| filter contains(metric.key, "cpu")`
Chart logs/events over time	`makeTimeseries` (after fetch)	`fetch logs \| makeTimeseries count(), interval:5m`
Lookup tables	`load`	`lookup [load dt.lookup.my_table], sourceField:key, lookupField:id`
Schema/structure	`describe`	`describe logs`
Topology nodes	`smartscapeNodes`	`smartscapeNodes HOST`

Critical Rules

Metrics use timeseries, NEVER fetch. timeseries avg(dt.host.cpu.usage), by:{dt.entity.host} — CORRECT fetch dt.host.cpu.usage — WRONG, WILL NOT WORK
by: always uses curly braces. by:{host.name} — CORRECT by: host.name or by:(host.name) — WRONG
Strings must be quoted in filters. filter status == "ERROR" — CORRECT filter status == ERROR — WRONG
No SQL syntax. DQL is pipe-based. No SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY.
- fields not SELECT
- filter not WHERE
- summarize ... by:{} not GROUP BY
- sort not ORDER BY
Time ranges differ by command.
- timeseries: timeseries avg(dt.host.cpu.usage), from:-1h
- fetch: fetch logs | filter timestamp >= now() - 1h

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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2mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 1,959 tokens per session scan A 057e49e589a3

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dynatrace-dql-kb copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aachtenberg/dynatrace-dql-kb (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,086 tokens to every session, about $0.0083 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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