topic Re: Histograms are not visible on dynatrace when injected through OTLP in Dynatrace Managed Q&A

Histograms are not visible on Dynatrace Managed when injected through OTLP

Shaheen_Syed — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:00:16 GMT

We are using an OTLP Java SDK to push metrics to a managed instance of Dynatrace. While we can successfully push UpDownCounters and Gauges we are unable to push Histograms. We do not see any errors in pushing but the Histograms are not visible

Histograms are enabled in the Dynatrace instance.

We have attached the following document:

Metrics.txt (This is the JSON view of the metrics that are being published).

Re: Histograms are not visible on dynatrace when injected through OTLP

MaciejNeumann — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:42:30 GMT

Hello @Shaheen_Syed,

Do you still have this issue? According to this Documentation article:

About OTLP metrics ingest
If you are not seeing the HTTP 400 error, this should mean that all metrics in the OTLP request are valid.

Also, did you try migration to the new OTLP HTTP metrics explorer?
Migrating from the Dynatrace OTel metrics exporter to standard OTLP metrics exporter
Could you check if this fixes this issue?