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Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

p_devulapalli — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:00:28 GMT

Is there a way we can capture the Drive Label/ VolumeName as a dimension in Dynatrace and use them as a filter for alerting?

I am looking to setup custom alerting for selected drives based on drive labels , as an example SQL_DATA or SQL_BACKUP. There may not be a particular standard on which drive ( D or E or F) would be marked as SQL_DATA and even new drives would be added as needed and labeled as SQL_DATA2 or SQL_DATA3 based on the need .

I need to set custom thresholds for certain drives based on drive labels as we can automatically apply the monitoring to any drives that might get added in future .

Is this achievable , any ideas please?

Re: Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

RohitBisht — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:22:19 GMT

Hi @p_devulapalli ,

Have you tried the default metrics we have, you can split and filter by the labels. Example below.

Re: Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

p_devulapalli — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:43:32 GMT

@RohitBisht The disk labels I am referring to is the VolumeName in windows , for example in the attached screenshot D drive is labeled as "Data" and F: is labeled as "SYS_LOG"

From the data explorer we can filter by Host or Disk (DeviceID) and not VolumeName

Here is an example for understanding

Re: Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

RohitBisht — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:57:30 GMT

there is no default way i could see, there is a related post but again is a manual effort.

Solved: Assigning tag to disks - Dynatrace Community

Re: Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

p_devulapalli — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:12:00 GMT

@RohitBisht Yes, tags is a options but that involves a manual effort . It would be really helpful if there is a way we can have the VolumeName/ disk label available as a dimension

Re: Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

AntonPineiro — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:08:47 GMT

Hi,

I think than no, I would say this is a nice product idea.

Best regards

Re: Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

p_devulapalli — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:55:04 GMT

@AntonPineiro Yea, this might end up being raised as a idea

Re: Capture Drive Label on a Windows Disk in Dynatrace for alerting

p_devulapalli — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:14:23 GMT

Its done, please vote so that it gets some visibility 🙂

https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Product-ideas/Add-VolumeName-Disk-label-as-dimension-for-Disk-Metrics-on/idi-p/279330