topic Re: create Problem Alert Profile For just 1 Request Service in Alerting

Create Problem Alert Profile for just 1 Request Service

khaled_beshir — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:29:59 GMT

Hello,

In our case, we need to configure a problem notification that triggers only when the failure rate of the Login API increases. Since this alert depends solely on a single API, could you please advise how to create an Alert Profile that sends a problem notification specifically for this API’s failure rate increase?

Re: create Problem Alert Profile For just 1 Request Service

dannemca — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:46:16 GMT

Is this Login API inside a service with others APIs running?

If so, you will need to create a event detection, and then add a custom property to this event. This way, you can use this custom property as a filter to Alerting Profile.

If the Login API has its dedicated service, you can simply add a tag to this service, and use it as filter to the Alerting Profile.

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/analyze-explore-automate/notifications-and-alerting/alerting-profiles#event-filters

Re: create Problem Alert Profile For just 1 Request Service

t_pawlak — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:48:01 GMT

Hi,
You can mark “Login” to a Key request
Services → Your service → Requests → find “Login” → ••• → Mark as key request.
After that, u can set anomaly detection.
Key requests → “Login” → Anomaly detection → Failure rate → choose Automatic baseline (or a static threshold if you prefer) and ensure Create problem is enabled.
Then Create Alerting profile
Settings → Alerting profiles → New → Name: “Login API – Failure rate” and set

Event filters (optional but recommended):
Problem type: Service: Failure rate increased (and/or Severity ≥ Error)