# Logs

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## [Retrieve Specific Filenames Using Wildcards in Dynatrace Log Ingestion Rules](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/retrieve-specific-filenames-using-wildcards-in-dynatrace-log-ingestion-rules/47181)

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**Author:** [@GaborBernics](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/GaborBernics)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/retrieve-specific-filenames-using-wildcards-in-dynatrace-log-ingestion-rules/47181 "2025-05-16T16:50:02Z")

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Hello, I created a log ingestion rule at the host-group level to pick up logs. The log.source contains the wildcard character “\*”, for example, /static/\*/static/service.log. The machines contain multiple folders: /s…

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## [Metric for the total size of logs in the environment](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/metric-for-the-total-size-of-logs-in-the-environment/51609)

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**Author:** [@AquariusDarius](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AquariusDarius)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 13, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/metric-for-the-total-size-of-logs-in-the-environment/51609 "2025-05-13T14:21:09Z")

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Hi Community, We’re currently planning to enable Grail in our environment. However, before proceeding, the client wants to ensure we understand the potential increase in license consumption this change might incur. In …

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## [Mask logs for specific user roles](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/mask-logs-for-specific-user-roles/51169)

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**Author:** [@fTrujillo](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/fTrujillo)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 12, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/mask-logs-for-specific-user-roles/51169 "2025-05-12T16:10:45Z")

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Hi, team Is there a way to mask log fields for specific roles? I’d like Team A to have access to the original data, while Team B would like the field masked.

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## [Monitor number of ingested bytes per log ingest rule](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/monitor-number-of-ingested-bytes-per-log-ingest-rule/50410)

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**Author:** [@paco\_castillo](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/paco_castillo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 12, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/monitor-number-of-ingested-bytes-per-log-ingest-rule/50410 "2025-05-12T13:07:33Z")

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Hi Dynatrace Community, Is there a way to monitor how many bytes a configured log ingest rule is ingesting in the tenant? We had a custom way to do this with extension 1.0, but since we want to move to logs on GRAIL, w…

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## [Display count of log content with content message and time](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/display-count-of-log-content-with-content-message-and-time/51558)

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**Author:** [@Shal](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Shal)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 12, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/display-count-of-log-content-with-content-message-and-time/51558 "2025-05-12T06:59:03Z")

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Hi Team, Can I get a query (DQL) that can display the results in the below manner for a particular log file example: D:/logs/log.txt I need different content and its count based on date or time selection. content …

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## [Exporting logs data to an external data lake](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/exporting-logs-data-to-an-external-data-lake/51536)

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**Author:** [@JAR1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/JAR1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/exporting-logs-data-to-an-external-data-lake/51536 "2025-05-08T13:11:44Z")

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Hi everyone, Is there a way to export logs stored in Dynatrace to an external lake? Has anyone encountered this situation before? Thanks in advance BR

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## [Log Ingestion - how often agent checks for the new entries](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-ingestion-how-often-agent-checks-for-the-new-entries/51399)

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**Author:** [@Akhil-Jayendran](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Akhil-Jayendran)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 7, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-ingestion-how-often-agent-checks-for-the-new-entries/51399 "2025-05-07T19:43:56Z")

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Hello Team, I need a few clarifications regarding log ingestion :slightly\_smiling\_face: According to the document, Dynatrace automatically discovers, analyzes, and stores logs every 60 seconds. Does this means that eve…

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## [Suppress Log Monitoring Metric Extraction events](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/suppress-log-monitoring-metric-extraction-events/51408)

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**Author:** [@sundarv1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/sundarv1)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 6, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/suppress-log-monitoring-metric-extraction-events/51408 "2025-05-06T11:40:13Z")

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Suppress Log Monitoring Metric Extraction, which is created under “Log Monitoring - Event Extraction” during maintenance windows.

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## [Regex for custom log source](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/regex-for-custom-log-source/51393)

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**Author:** [@Shal](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Shal)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 5, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/regex-for-custom-log-source/51393 "2025-05-05T07:17:12Z")

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Hi Team, I am trying to add below log file in Custom log source D:\\xxx\\Apps\\BusSys\_UAT\_OC5\\xxx.BLT.BulkImportServerWS\\2025.4.24.1-mainBulkLoadTool-OC5\\logs\\2025-04-24\\log.txt The words highlighted in red change …

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## [Custom Log ingestion](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-log-ingestion/51212)

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**Author:** [@Shal](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Shal)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 29, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-log-ingestion/51212 "2025-04-29T07:04:32Z")

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Hi Team, I need to add below custom log path for log monitoring where file name will be in the yyyy-mm-dd.log format and we need only log levels Error from the log. Path Location File Name Error Code, String, patte…

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## [Log processing rule for masking an email within a json object](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-processing-rule-for-masking-an-email-within-a-json-object/51379)

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**Author:** [@zahra-khan](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/zahra-khan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 25, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-processing-rule-for-masking-an-email-within-a-json-object/51379 "2025-04-25T20:03:52Z")

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Here is my log processing rule. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I am really struggling to get this to work. I have stripped down my actual JSON object a lot, but I can’t get it to work.

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## [Graphical view for a log entry into dynatrace](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/graphical-view-for-a-log-entry-into-dynatrace/51315)

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**Author:** [@gauravpayghan\_1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/gauravpayghan_1)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 25, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/graphical-view-for-a-log-entry-into-dynatrace/51315 "2025-04-25T07:44:43Z")

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The below one is the log entry! in the above content using etime I need graphical view in dynatrace with respect to dashboard! Please assist me on this how it can be achieved and what steps to be followed! ===========…

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## [Ingesting a .txt file and using it as a log source](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ingesting-a-txt-file-and-using-it-as-a-log-source/51322)

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**Author:** [@badgerfifteen](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/badgerfifteen)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 8:32am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ingesting-a-txt-file-and-using-it-as-a-log-source/51322 "2025-04-24T08:32:13Z")

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Hi, I currently have an Oracle Database that writes to a file called listener.txt within the following directory: C:\\app\\admin\\product\\23ai\\diag\\tnslsnr\\redacted\_server\\listener\\alert\\log.xml I’ve added it as a custom…

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## [Space sizing for log monitoring](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/space-sizing-for-log-monitoring/51332)

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**Author:** [@juanrergis](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/juanrergis)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/space-sizing-for-log-monitoring/51332 "2025-04-23T11:21:03Z")

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How can I do space sizing for log monitoring? My cluster in the Elasticsearch file system has 48 GB available and a usage of 12 GB. I only want to integrate the SAP Hana tosts.

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## [Not getting any log alerts suddenly](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/not-getting-any-log-alerts-suddenly/51056)

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**Author:** [@Sisapy09](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Sisapy09)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/not-getting-any-log-alerts-suddenly/51056 "2025-04-17T07:46:56Z")

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What could be the reason if the log alerts are not generating, and where should we start troubleshooting? Tried test alert with content matching, not even showing in problems. Is there a different way to set up monito…

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## [Grail and timestamp support for milliseconds](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/grail-and-timestamp-support-for-milliseconds/40291)

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**Author:** [@GregOReilly](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/GregOReilly)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/grail-and-timestamp-support-for-milliseconds/40291 "2025-04-14T19:11:26Z")

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Before moving our existing environments to Grail, I’d like to know if it supports timestamps in milliseconds. Today’s Log Management only goes as far as seconds. Will Grail provide “millisecond” timestamp support?

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## [Disableing printing dt.trace\_id and dt.span\_id in logs](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/disableing-printing-dt-trace-id-and-dt-span-id-in-logs/51214)

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**Author:** [@sivakumarp](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/sivakumarp)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/disableing-printing-dt-trace-id-and-dt-span-id-in-logs/51214 "2025-04-14T15:45:30Z")

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Can we disable dt.trace\_id and dt.span\_id in logs ( auto-enrichment of log)?

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## [Before enabling OpenPipeline, how to know which rule/s is having LQL?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/before-enabling-openpipeline-how-to-know-which-rule-s-is-having-lql/51205)

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**Author:** [@waikeat\_chan](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/waikeat_chan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/before-enabling-openpipeline-how-to-know-which-rule-s-is-having-lql/51205 "2025-04-14T05:37:39Z")

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Before I can enable OpenPipeline, how can I know which rule/s is having LQL instead of DQL? From screenshot below, how do I proceed? (Or do I need to check one-by-one…) Best Regards, Wai Keat

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## [Ingest log files stored in ".gz" format in AWS S3](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ingest-log-files-stored-in-gz-format-in-aws-s3/45722)

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**Author:** [@Shirai](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Shirai)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ingest-log-files-stored-in-gz-format-in-aws-s3/45722 "2025-04-11T15:04:37Z")

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A customer has a question. Is it possible to ingest “.gz” format log files stored in AWS S3 into Dynatrace and monitor them? I understand that this is possible without any problems if the log file is in plain format. H…

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## [Ingest only JSON portion of this log entry](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ingest-only-json-portion-of-this-log-entry/51122)

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**Author:** [@chrmckenna](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/chrmckenna)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/ingest-only-json-portion-of-this-log-entry/51122 "2025-04-08T17:56:34Z")

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I have a use case where we are ingesting an entry from the Windows Application Log using the following ingestion rule The log event ingests fine and looks like this. You can see embedded JSON within the text. We’re…

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## [How to avoid creating duplicate business events when using openpipeline?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-avoid-creating-duplicate-business-events-when-using-openpipeline/50752)

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**Author:** [@strudeau](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/strudeau)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-avoid-creating-duplicate-business-events-when-using-openpipeline/50752 "2025-04-05T21:16:58Z")

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Hello, we have a system that runs an SQL query at interval and writes the result in a log file. The log file is ingested in dynatrace via openpipeline and bizevents are extracted from the logs. Unfortunately, the SQL que…

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## [Is OpenPipeline routing first match only?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-openpipeline-routing-first-match-only/50904)

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**Author:** [@ronmacdonald](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ronmacdonald)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-openpipeline-routing-first-match-only/50904 "2025-04-05T20:53:20Z")

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I expect we will have a significant number of requests to convert log data to metrics. Trying to pre-plan migration of data into Dynatrace logs and anticipated alerting requirements. Since I expect we will have 300+ lo…

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## [Merge log content coming from the same log.source](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/merge-log-content-coming-from-the-same-log-source/50785)

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**Author:** [@sabrina\_montlu1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/sabrina_montlu1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 20, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/merge-log-content-coming-from-the-same-log-source/50785 "2025-03-20T10:13:11Z")

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Hi, I want to parse my log with OpenPipeline, and I quickly encountered a problem displaying the full contents of my log file. When I display my logs (cf. screenshot in Log classic view), I notice that for the same log …

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## [Custom autodetector rules for log files](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-autodetector-rules-for-log-files/50771)

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**Author:** [@m3tomlins](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/m3tomlins)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-autodetector-rules-for-log-files/50771 "2025-03-19T15:39:18Z")

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We are curious if there is a way to customize the listing of the Built-in Autodetector Rules. We see the OneAgent (logmonitoring.cpp) interrogating a database log file on a custom volume/mount point: \[2025-02-18 15:07:1…

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## [Create Custom Metric from missing log entries](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/create-custom-metric-from-missing-log-entries/50370)

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**Author:** [@detk72](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/detk72)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 10, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/create-custom-metric-from-missing-log-entries/50370 "2025-03-10T14:14:01Z")

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Hi, I created a metric “cluster-availability” using Log Monitoring - Metric extraction (mointoring availability of a JDBC database by checking the log entries which are ingested by custom extension/SQL data source). In …

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## [Business Events](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/business-events/50606)

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**Author:** [@natanael\_mendes](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/natanael_mendes)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/business-events/50606 "2025-03-07T21:00:56Z")

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Hello guys!!! Anyone knows whats the definition of each field ? I cant find in the documentation

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## [Log Ingestion for File Share not attached to any PC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-ingestion-for-file-share-not-attached-to-any-pc/47032)

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**Author:** [@Travis2](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Travis2)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-ingestion-for-file-share-not-attached-to-any-pc/47032 "2025-03-06T16:51:33Z")

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I have been researching this and wanted to know if anyone has setup log ingestion rules for a file share that is not attached to a pc. We have software that writes its logs to a NFS share drive, however these shares are…

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## [Nice to know )-; using "contains as a matcher"](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/nice-to-know-using-contains-as-a-matcher/50502)

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**Author:** [@henk\_stobbe](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/henk_stobbe)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/nice-to-know-using-contains-as-a-matcher/50502 "2025-02-28T20:02:37Z")

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Hello all, So I can use “contains” in a dql filter but not as a matcher when creating a log-metric: KR Henk

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## [Log Enrichment](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-enrichment/44147)

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**Author:** [@SureshThakur](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/SureshThakur)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/log-enrichment/44147 "2025-02-24T20:23:16Z")

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Hi, We have Kubernetes monitoring enabled by Dynatrace with log monitoring disabled. However, we can see Dynatrace still adding dt.span\_id, dt.trace\_id etc attributes to the logs of application pod. Is there way we can…

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## [No log data available in Custom log sources](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/no-log-data-available-in-custom-log-sources/50340)

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**Author:** [@Etienne1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Etienne1)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 20, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/no-log-data-available-in-custom-log-sources/50340 "2025-02-20T10:44:11Z")

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Hello, I don’t understand why I’m getting the ‘no log data available’ error. I looked at this post for inspiration: Custom Log Source - Windows Event Log Here are some screenshots of the custom log sources and my …

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