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How can I find the skipped urls "At least x contributors were skipped because they occurred extremely rarely"

runatyr — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:07:47 GMT

Helllo: we are trying to clean up and verify certain web pages that do not see a high level of use (or any) so it can be removed. When we go to a web service and select "view all request details" we get the list and then at the bottom it will say "At least x contributors were skipped because they occurred extremely rarely"

Is there any way either through API or some other function in Dyantrace that can be leveraged to get the rest of these urls contributions that are not listed by default?

Re: How can I find the skipped urls "At least x contributors were skipped because they occurred extremely rarely"

DanielS — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:40:05 GMT

Hello @runatyr the issue you experienced in the old UI, where data points or "contributors" were skipped, was primarily due to the Top X sampling mechanism and limitations on storing high-cardinality metrics in the legacy architecture (which often relied on specialized databases for time series):

Cardinality Limits (The "Top X"): In the old system, Dynatrace would often track only the top N (e.g., Top 50 or Top 100) dimension values for a metric to conserve resources. Any other values—the "skipped data" or "other contributors"—were grouped together or simply excluded from storage for long-term retention.

Workarounds: Your method of "playing with time" or "changing the dimension order" worked because it forced the system to recalculate the Top X contributors for that specific context, sometimes revealing a different set of dimensions that met the new criteria.

Grail is designed to solve this exact problem by storing all dimensions and the full cardinality of your observability data (including metrics, traces, and logs) in a single data lakehouse. This means there is no longer a fundamental need to skip or sample contributors to manage storage complexity.

Re: How can I find the skipped urls "At least x contributors were skipped because they occurred extremely rarely"

runatyr — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:59:26 GMT

Daniel:

This is excellent news. That said... we are on prem. What options exist for on-prem (no grail) 😞

Re: How can I find the skipped urls "At least x contributors were skipped because they occurred extremely rarely"

DanielS — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:51:37 GMT

Hi @runatyr you can only do what is listed on workarounds.