--- title: A design refresh for every Dynatrace App, including yours description: Dynatrace rolled out a platform-wide UI refresh across all apps, including custom-built ones, by shipping updated design tokens through its Strato design... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-design-refresh-for-every-dynatrace-app-including-yours-stggprhym twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A design refresh for every Dynatrace App, including yours | daily.dev og:description: Dynatrace rolled out a platform-wide UI refresh across all apps, including custom-built ones, by shipping updated design tokens through its Strato design... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-design-refresh-for-every-dynatrace-app-including-yours-stggprhym og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/STGGPRhym.png og:image:alt: A design refresh for every Dynatrace App, including yours og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A design refresh for every Dynatrace App, including yours **[Dynatrace](https://daily.dev/sources/dynatrace)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dynatrace rolled out a platform-wide UI refresh across all apps, including custom-built ones, by shipping updated design tokens through its Strato design system, requiring no action from app teams. The update reduces visual layering, improves dark mode contrast, adds new chart color palettes, and improves accessibility (keyboard support, focus indicators, target sizes) simultaneously everywhere. Two new UX features ship alongside it: filtering by typed value instead of field name, and reusable/copyable time ranges across apps and browser tabs. The post also promotes building custom apps on the same Strato foundation, backed by Grail, Smartscape, DQL, Dynatrace IAM permissions, and an App Development MCP server for AI-assisted app building. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How did Dynatrace roll out its new UI design refresh to every app, including custom-built ones, without requiring code changes? The refresh shipped as a set of versioned design token releases through the Strato design system that every Dynatrace app, including customer-built custom apps, shares. Because shared components like buttons, tables, filter fields, and time selectors all render from these tokens, updating the tokens updated every app at once with no action required from app teams, covering visual changes and accessibility improvements like keyboard support and focus indicators. _Teams standardizing on shared design systems can follow how Strato's token-based rollout played out on daily.dev._ ### How can I filter data in Dynatrace without knowing the exact field name first? Type the value you're looking for into the filter field and it suggests the full matching expression, such as typing an error and getting 'status = error' as the top match. This lets you start from the value in front of you rather than needing to know the underlying data model's field names in advance. _Developers evaluating observability tool UX changes track updates like this on daily.dev._ ### What tools does Dynatrace provide for building custom apps with AI coding assistants? Dynatrace offers an App Development MCP server that gives an IDE assistant access to its component catalog with working code examples, app experience standards, and a searchable DQL knowledge base. This lets a developer describe a desired app in plain language while the assistant works from current platform documentation, reducing the need for deep platform expertise to get something running. _Developers wiring MCP servers into their AI coding workflow can find related tool coverage on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What's new in Dynatrace SaaS 1.346](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-dynatrace-saas-1-346-qwjjjds3i) · Dynatrace · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Dynatrace Release Radar 04.26: What’s new and why it matters](https://daily.dev/posts/dynatrace-release-radar-04-26-what-s-new-and-why-it-matters-5j33leupc) · Dynatrace · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Making room for what's next in the GitLab UI](https://daily.dev/posts/making-room-for-what-s-next-in-the-gitlab-ui-58qfdkaju) · GitLab · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Visualize Data Your Way, with Intelligence Dashboards Built for Your Stack](https://daily.dev/posts/visualize-data-your-way-with-intelligence-dashboards-built-for-your-stack-qfqztrwoe) · AppSignal · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#accessibility](https://daily.dev/tags/accessibility) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-design-refresh-for-every-dynatrace-app-including-yours-stggprhym) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A design refresh for every Dynatrace App, including yours","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-design-refresh-for-every-dynatrace-app-including-yours-stggprhym","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-design-refresh-for-every-dynatrace-app-including-yours-stggprhym"},"datePublished":"2026-09-29T15:03:09.011Z","dateModified":"2026-09-29T19:19:47.068Z","description":"Dynatrace rolled out a platform-wide UI refresh across all apps, including custom-built ones, by shipping updated design tokens through its Strato design...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/d5db29fe1a60185d7fdad3977f70a173?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/d5db29fe1a60185d7fdad3977f70a173?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Dynatrace","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Dynatrace","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/3ca5a9897e9748f4a39fa9736389609e","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/dynatrace"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-design-refresh-for-every-dynatrace-app-including-yours-stggprhym","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"webdev,devops,ux,observability,accessibility","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dynatrace","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dynatrace"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A design refresh for every Dynatrace App, including yours"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-design-refresh-for-every-dynatrace-app-including-yours-stggprhym#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How did Dynatrace roll out its new UI design refresh to every app, including custom-built ones, without requiring code changes?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The refresh shipped as a set of versioned design token releases through the Strato design system that every Dynatrace app, including customer-built custom apps, shares. 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