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Service naming rules

JAR — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:44:51 GMT

Hello all.

it is possible to create a service name rule using a request attribute placeholder?

Thanks in advanced

Jose A

Re: service naming rules

rgarzon1 — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:32:40 GMT

Hi Jose

short answer: no

depending on the need you can define custom services, but it will depend on what you are looking for.

Unless from the process you create a service for each request changing this logic since the process is detected, I would think that it is feasible but not practical.

Service naming rules

Regards

Ruben

Re: service naming rules

JAR — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:42:51 GMT

Hello Ruben.
My customer has defined alot of business applications under WAS (IBM websphere Applications Server). The problem is that Dynatrace does not detect that application name in any metadata with which to rename the services.

I had thought about capturing that field and using it in the renaming, but I don't know if it's possible either

If anyone has any ideas, they are welcome!

BR
JAR

Re: service naming rules

lazaroyadrian_p — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:05:28 GMT

Hi JAR,
I think that you could try adding metadata to the process or server and later use it to change the name of the service.
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/process-group-properties#variables
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/tagging-hostautotag#host-metadata

Re: service naming rules

rgarzon1 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:53:49 GMT

oh i see. if the process its a websphere well you have plenty of options. all of them inside the process group detect and process group properties.

you can use process group standalone i remember use this to separated the cells inside the WAS using the command line args. and next use this to get proper names for my services some time ago. maybe this helps too.

hope it helps

Re: service naming rules

Malaik — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:49:10 GMT

Hello,

I will open this discussion again.

Did you found the way to renaming a request using API based on Request Attributes.?

Re: service naming rules

Julius_Loman — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:56:55 GMT

It's possible to rename a request based on request attribute (that's quite common), but not the service.

Re: service naming rules

Malaik — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:02:26 GMT

Yes sure, already done.