Auto-tag VMware Entities by Name | VMware (remote monitoring) extension

AK — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:56:44 GMT

Hello Folks,

We have enabled VMware extension in our organization. Below are the corresponding entity detection identifiers:

VMware vCenter → dt.entity.vmware:vcenter
VMware VM → dt.entity.vmware:virtualmachine
VMware Cluster → dt.entity.vmware:cluster
VMware Datacenter → dt.entity.vmware:datacenter
VMware Datastores → dt.entity.vmware:datastore
VMware Host → dt.entity.vmware:host
VMware Disks → dt.entity.vmware:disk

I would like to create automatic tags based on the entity names.

For instance, a datastore named "dtstore-1" should automatically receive the tag: datastore:dtstore-1.

I tried adding the rule: Apply '{CustomDevice:Name}' to Entities matching type("vmware:datastore")

But it resulted in a warning: Placeholders are not applicable for entity selector based rules.

Is there an alternative method to achieve this? Please guide.

Regards,
AK

Re: Auto-tag VMware Entities by Name | VMware (remote monitoring) extension

sujit_k_singh — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:23:29 GMT

Hi @AK

For all Entity selector-based tagging rules, Dynatrace doesn't support placeholders, regardless of whether the matched entities are VMware entities, Custom Devices, Hosts, Services, or Process Groups.

I have used below method and it works perfectly

type("vmware:virtualmachine"),entityName.contains("prod-app")

type("vmware:vcenter"),entityName.contains("vc-prod")

type("vmware:host"),entityName.contains("esx-prod")

type("vmware:datacenter"),entityName.contains("primary")

type("vmware:datastore"),entityName.contains("gold-storage")

type("vmware:cluster"),entityName.contains("compute")

type("vmware:disk"),entityName.contains("data-disk")

Thanks,

Sujit

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