https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/New-Smartscape-Entities-breaks-a-lot-of-Usability/m-p/301778#M39244 <P>First: the new *additional* smartscape entities add a lot of confusion for end-users. Now there are smarscape-services, smartscape-hosts and whatnot. As long as they have been "behind the scenes" that was fine, noone really cared unless looking at the new smartscape. Now they become more prominent and add a lot of confusion...everywhere.</P><P>*The Services View*</P><P>It now has a "new" explorer that makes everything better ... well<BR />I have some well established service naming rules and process group naming rules. They work well, serve a purpose and users are used to the services how they are named. Now they sometimes land in the "new" services explorer or even in the new smartscape and: "Wohaaa all the services have different names!"<BR />The service naming rules are not applied to the new smartscape entities!!<BR /><STRONG>I consider this a breaking bug!</STRONG><BR /><BR />Can we disable the whole new smartscape things until it is feature complete and GA? It creates too much confusion.<BR />How do you see this?<BR /><BR /></P> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:03:14 GMT r_weber 2026-07-10T15:03:14Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/New-Smartscape-Entities-breaks-a-lot-of-Usability/m-p/301778#M39244 <P>First: the new *additional* smartscape entities add a lot of confusion for end-users. Now there are smarscape-services, smartscape-hosts and whatnot. As long as they have been "behind the scenes" that was fine, noone really cared unless looking at the new smartscape. Now they become more prominent and add a lot of confusion...everywhere.</P><P>*The Services View*</P><P>It now has a "new" explorer that makes everything better ... well<BR />I have some well established service naming rules and process group naming rules. They work well, serve a purpose and users are used to the services how they are named. Now they sometimes land in the "new" services explorer or even in the new smartscape and: "Wohaaa all the services have different names!"<BR />The service naming rules are not applied to the new smartscape entities!!<BR /><STRONG>I consider this a breaking bug!</STRONG><BR /><BR />Can we disable the whole new smartscape things until it is feature complete and GA? It creates too much confusion.<BR />How do you see this?<BR /><BR /></P> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:03:14 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/New-Smartscape-Entities-breaks-a-lot-of-Usability/m-p/301778#M39244 r_weber 2026-07-10T15:03:14Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/New-Smartscape-Entities-breaks-a-lot-of-Usability/m-p/301790#M39245 <P>Thanks for posting this question. I had noticed this too and your post sent me digging.</P><P>After much digging I unearthed this <A href="https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Feedback/Feedback-channel-for-the-Explorer-Preview-in-the-Services-App/m-p/300121/highlight/true#M5464" target="_blank">reply</A>&nbsp;in the <A href="https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Feedback/Feedback-channel-for-the-Explorer-Preview-in-the-Services-App/m-p/300121/highlight/true#M5464" target="_blank">Feedback channel for the Explorer Preview in the Service app</A>, where the product team explains what's behind the difference in service naming. The thread goes on to tease upcoming enhancements intended to alleviate the current challenges.</P> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:32:04 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/New-Smartscape-Entities-breaks-a-lot-of-Usability/m-p/301790#M39245 marco_irmer 2026-07-10T22:32:04Z