https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Davis-Anomaly-Detection-Not-Triggering-When-VM-Changes-from/m-p/305386#M7438 <P>Hi Folks,</P><P>I have configured VM availability monitoring using the <STRONG>vmware.vm.availability</STRONG> metric with the following filter conditions:</P><UL><LI>vm.power.state = PoweredOn</LI><LI>vm.connection.state = connected</LI></UL><P>The purpose of this filter is to exclude VMs that are <STRONG>Powered Off but still connected</STRONG>, which is commonly observed with decommissioned VMs.</P><P>We have tested this configuration, and during testing we noticed that when a VM transitions to:</P><UL><LI>vm.power.state = PoweredOff</LI><LI>vm.connection.state = connected</LI></UL><P>the VM is filtered out of the result set, and consequently no alert is triggered.</P><P>Has anyone encountered a similar situation and successfully configured and validated <STRONG>Davis Anomaly Detection</STRONG> for this use case? Alternatively, is there another recommended approach to achieve the desired alerting behavior?</P><P>Regards,<BR /><STRONG>AK</STRONG></P> Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:50:44 GMT AK 2026-10-18T09:50:44Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Davis-Anomaly-Detection-Not-Triggering-When-VM-Changes-from/m-p/305386#M7438 <P>Hi Folks,</P><P>I have configured VM availability monitoring using the <STRONG>vmware.vm.availability</STRONG> metric with the following filter conditions:</P><UL><LI>vm.power.state = PoweredOn</LI><LI>vm.connection.state = connected</LI></UL><P>The purpose of this filter is to exclude VMs that are <STRONG>Powered Off but still connected</STRONG>, which is commonly observed with decommissioned VMs.</P><P>We have tested this configuration, and during testing we noticed that when a VM transitions to:</P><UL><LI>vm.power.state = PoweredOff</LI><LI>vm.connection.state = connected</LI></UL><P>the VM is filtered out of the result set, and consequently no alert is triggered.</P><P>Has anyone encountered a similar situation and successfully configured and validated <STRONG>Davis Anomaly Detection</STRONG> for this use case? Alternatively, is there another recommended approach to achieve the desired alerting behavior?</P><P>Regards,<BR /><STRONG>AK</STRONG></P> Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:50:44 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Davis-Anomaly-Detection-Not-Triggering-When-VM-Changes-from/m-p/305386#M7438 AK 2026-10-18T09:50:44Z