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Custom service Entry points question

raffaele_talari — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:27:23 GMT

Hi there,

is there any way to "restrict" the Entry points settings to specific services/hosts?

I only see this setting available under the global settings, as shown in the screenshot below:

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ciao,

Raff

Re: Custom service Entry points question

michael_kopp — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:09:03 GMT

The Custom Services define a service, so restricting it to a service is not possible. We are currently adding the ability to restrict it to a set of process groups or a host group though. Would that fullfill this requirement?

Re: Custom service Entry points question

raffaele_talari — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:10:14 GMT

Hi Michael,

yeah I think so. That would be great, thanks!

Ciao,
Raff

Re: Custom service Entry points question

raffaele_talari — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:22:22 GMT

@Michael K. two quick questions about this:

- Is there going to be "Filtering by tag" functionality?

- When we would expect to get this feature (roughly)?

Thanks a lot,

Raff

Re: Custom service Entry points question

michael_kopp — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:26:11 GMT

We are planning a feature that would allow to specify a Custom Service for a set of Process Groups. We are also planning a feature that would work similar to the tagging feature to cover dynamic environments. ETA most likely this year.

Re: Custom service Entry points question

Yosi_Neuman — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:45:40 GMT

Hi Michel

Any update or ETA for Custom Service for a set of Process Groups

Yos

Re: Custom service Entry points question

rick_boyd — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:03:25 GMT

If you edit your custom service, there is a "Optionally restrict custom service rules by process groups" section you can use

Re: Custom service Entry points question

satish_a_prasad — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:09:46 GMT

@Michael K., Is there a performance benefit (ie in speed of instrumentation) to scope this to specific process groups? I assume that the default behavior is "check if this class is loaded in the process" in ALL process groups.. which may be expensive..?

I'm comparing it to Appmon where specific sensor rules could be applied to specific agent groups.. and i recollect there was advisory that is a best practice in improving instrumentation speed..

Re: Custom service Entry points question

RaviSivaPrasad_ — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:21:07 GMT

Very valid point. Dynatrace must relook into this API design. With current implementation, with deep monitoring enabled, it created a huge outage across our platform. All components bound to dynatrace, started scanning for newly defined custom service, caused huge CPU demand to underlying shared platform. This Custom Service should be restricted to specific process groups, to avoid this issue

Re: Custom service Entry points question

bemdumaguing — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:15:18 GMT

Hello, just wondering if there's an update on this..

I have defined 2 Custom Services (they have the same entry point but pointed to different hosts/processes).

Custom Service Name: CustomService1

Entry Point: custom.service.entry.point

Hosts: Host1, Host2

Custom Service Name: CustomService2

Entry Point: custom.service.entry.point

Hosts: Host3, Host4

When checking Host1 services, I see CustomService1 as expected. But when checking the Host3 services, I am expecting to see CustomService2, but instead, I see CustomService1.

Is this really how this works or am I missing a configuration?

Is there a way to restrict custom services to a process/host only?

Thank you.