topic Creating a dashboard with a box to filter the view by a specific request attribute in Dashboarding

Creating a dashboard with a box to filter the view by a specific request attribute

YuvalKon — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:15:50 GMT

Hey experts!

As mentioned in the title - I want to play with the possibility of creating a dashboard to view trace, maybe method hotspots, failed requests etc, based on a request attribute. So the goal is to have a box in the dashboard that I'll just need to add the value of the request attribute and the view will change accordingly.

Do you think it's possible?

If so, I would love if you could guide me on how to do that.

Thank you!

Re: Creating a dashboard with a box to filter the view by a specific request attribute

t_pawlak — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:13:39 GMT

Hi,
In Dashboards Classic, you can add a filter bar, but not as a free-text input that filters tiles by a request attribute value. Classic dynamic filters are limited to dashboard-level filters (zones/tags/entities, etc.) and don’t behave like query parameters for “request attribute = X”
Add dynamic filters to a Dynatrace dashboard

But you can do some workarounds, like:

use Request attribute filtering in Service/Requests views + link from the dashboard. Request attributes are great for filtering requests by specific attribute values in the service.Then in dashboard, add a Markdown tile linking to that view. I know that is poor workaround, but still 😉

Other option, make calculated Service Metric with the request attribute as a dimension. If your goal is charts/alerts, create a Calculated service metric and include the request attribute as a dimension (split by it). After that you can show this metric in charts and in dashboards.

And Last option swith to SaaS and new Dashboards 😉

Re: Creating a dashboard with a box to filter the view by a specific request attribute

YuvalKon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:00:10 GMT

t_pawlak, first of all, thanks for the creativity! 😄

And What are my options in the new Dashboards?