https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Turn-off-capturing-of-DB-Prepare-statements/m-p/301180#M39222 <P>Hi,&nbsp;</P><P>While Database prepare statements may be beneficial, I've seen more than once situations in which the DB prepare statements (in an intensive database based application) take a huge percentage of the allowed trace ingest quota for the V3 platform. This results in a customers missing out crucial spans and having to pay for additional storage because of spans they do not want.<BR />My question to you: did you face such situations? how did you handle that? and for the Dynatrace guys our here - do you know of any way to just turn off the prepare statements collection?<BR /><BR />Gil.</P> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:57:14 GMT gilgi 2026-06-25T07:57:14Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Turn-off-capturing-of-DB-Prepare-statements/m-p/301180#M39222 <P>Hi,&nbsp;</P><P>While Database prepare statements may be beneficial, I've seen more than once situations in which the DB prepare statements (in an intensive database based application) take a huge percentage of the allowed trace ingest quota for the V3 platform. This results in a customers missing out crucial spans and having to pay for additional storage because of spans they do not want.<BR />My question to you: did you face such situations? how did you handle that? and for the Dynatrace guys our here - do you know of any way to just turn off the prepare statements collection?<BR /><BR />Gil.</P> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:57:14 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Turn-off-capturing-of-DB-Prepare-statements/m-p/301180#M39222 gilgi 2026-06-25T07:57:14Z