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Example of 'in' operator in Segments

kumaravel — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:39:46 GMT

Hello,

I have been trying to use the 'in' operator to apply filters in the Segments but always get errors like "The filter field statement has to be defined" or "Segments can only filter by text. Wrap "(t)" with quotation marks."
Is there some working example which I could use as reference.

Kind Regards,

Kumaravel

Re: Example of 'in' operator in Segments

radek_jasinski — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 08:59:50 GMT

Hi @kumaravel

Below you can find an example of how to achieve the desired filtering in DQL (since the in operator is not supported in this context) by using multiple OR conditions instead:

fetch logs
| filter dt.system.bucket == "logs_default" OR dt.system.bucket == "logs_archive"
| fields dt.system.bucket, loglevel, content

Re: Example of 'in' operator in Segments

kumaravel — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:18:05 GMT

Hello @radek_jasinski ,

Thanks for your reply.

In my case, I do not have a fixed list to hardcode with OR condition and was looking for an option to work with dynamic values.

But if its not supported, then will check other possible ways to implement my usecase.

Is there any plan to include the in operator in the 'Segments' as well or its out of scope for some specific reason?

Re: Example of 'in' operator in Segments

radek_jasinski — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:45:00 GMT

I couldn’t find anything in the documentation saying that in is supported in Segments, and I just tried it myself but it didn’t work either.

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/segments/reference/segments-reference-data-types

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/segments/reference/segments-reference-limits

Re: Example of 'in' operator in Segments

kumaravel — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:05:21 GMT

When I am trying to build a segment, I saw the link to documentation as shown in screenshot

The link points to the page https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/discover-dynatrace/get-started/dynatrace-ui/ui-filter-field

So this is kind of confusing as the documentation link mentions the operator 'in'.

Re: Example of 'in' operator in Segments

GosiaMurawska — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:16:07 GMT

Hi @kumaravel,
did you manage to solve this one?

Re: Example of 'in' operator in Segments

kumaravel — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:49:13 GMT

Hi @GosiaMurawska ,

I checked today and seems the option is now available to use the 'in' operator. Later will try to implement my use case. Thanks