topic Re: How to UNfilter in distributed trace ? in Open Q&A

How to UNfilter in distributed traces?

seb2953 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:36:33 GMT

In the distributed view, the search (Most recent trace) works fine and quick. For instance, it filters (or shows) all traces with my given pattern "actuator"...

What I would like now is to see all traces that DO NOT contain the search pattern .. so I tried something like "!actuator", and "not actuator"... is there any syntax to allow this?

How to suggest such an interesting feature?

Thanks

Re: How to UNfilter in distributed trace ?

AntonPineiro — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:00:39 GMT

Hi,

Could you please share a screenshot? It would be helpful to know where "actuator" appears, if it is name, path...

Best regards

Re: How to UNfilter in distributed trace ?

Julius_Loman — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:05:24 GMT

Best approach is to have either such requests muted or exclude them from monitoring completely.
Negative filtering is not available.

I typically exclude healthcheck requests types such as actuator from being monitored (the second option above).

Re: How to UNfilter in distributed trace ?

seb2953 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:19:22 GMT

It seems a good idea, but I was speaking more generally... Health was a sample.. However I tried to mute .. it seems that I can't mute it (maybe because i am not admin)...

Re: How to UNfilter in distributed trace ?

seb2953 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:21:41 GMT

Yes good idea ..

Re: How to UNfilter in distributed trace ?

AntonPineiro — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:40:05 GMT

Hi,

I think an option to negate filters or regex pattern will be useful, and not only "contains".

I have just created that idea here. Maybe it might be useful for your scenario.

Best regards