topic Re: Enable alerts for a particular host in Alerting

Enable alerts for a particular host

munawarhossain3 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:22:45 GMT

Hello,

I've an use case where the demand is to get alerts from a particular host from management zone.

PS: I won't be able to add any tag on that required host as not permissible.

I tried adding properties at alerting profile level but not working: seems it is dedicated for custom alert.

Kindly advise.

Thanks

Re: Enable alerts for a particular host

AntonPineiro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:18:45 GMT

Hi,

Are you talking enable alerts in host to be visible in Dynatrace? If yes, you can do it in anomaly detection in host level.

Best regards

Re: Enable alerts for a particular host

munawarhossain3 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:55:20 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for replying!

In anomaly detection, I will have a dedicated metric but we need all the predefined alerts raised.

And the problem here is notification for a particular host from setting classic.

How should I create an alerting profile to listen for a host only?

Thanks

Re: Enable alerts for a particular host

AntonPineiro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:24:37 GMT

Hi,

You can do it, it means, you can organize as you prefer. Base on tags or management zones for filtering in/out entities.

Best regards

Re: Enable alerts for a particular host

munawarhossain3 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:11:21 GMT

Hello,

As I said, I wont be able to add a tag as prohibited and entity belongs to a MZ already and alert is required just for a host.

Is there a possible way to use host name? Or host group (since it is different from the chunk).

Should be from classic problem.

Thanks

Re: Enable alerts for a particular host

AntonPineiro — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:01:41 GMT

Hi,

If you cannot use tags, I would explore using workflows and DQL.

Best regards

Re: Enable alerts for a particular host

ChadTurner — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:47:17 GMT

You can set the alerts at the host group level as well as at the host individually. For example, lets say your org doesn't want to alert on CPU... so that is turned off globally, If you go to the host, Say host X, you can go into the settings and override the global settings and then alert on CPU just for that one Host.

If someone wants alerts for a particular host and the alerts are already present, then I would recommend building out a new alert profile , if no tags are viable, then you will want to use event filters and try to widdle it down to the specific host or specific alert type like CPU etc.

The last option would be to leverage a workflow that targets all alerts for Host Name X and then trigger an email or ITSM integration to page out the alert.