topic Re: Preventing dynatrace from adding a x-dynatrace header in Real User Monitoring

Prevent Dynatrace from Injecting the x‑dynatrace Header

henk_stobbe — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:48:26 GMT

Summary: This post explains configuration options for preventing the x‑dynatrace header from being injected into requests. It describes OneAgent settings and scenarios where removal is required.

Hello,

Is it possible to prevent Dynatrace from adding the x-dynatrace header in specific (outgoing) requests? Or do I need to exclude the whole service from being monitored?

KR Henk

Re: Preventing dynatrace from adding a x-dynatrace header

Julius_Loman — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:01:51 GMT

At the moment can only disable monitoring at the process level (you cannot disable monitoring at service level).

I remember this feature is planned or maybe in the pipeline already. What exactly is the issue? Headers starting with X- do not imply any action on the called party. Normally they must be ignored if the called service does not know them.

Re: Preventing dynatrace from adding a x-dynatrace header

Parkash_jha — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:31:20 GMT

Hello @Julius_Loman ,

We are also facing the same issue with our application where x-headers are not able to excluded due to which some of the api calls got impacted and therefore we were forced to disable the oneagent on the host.

Do you know if this feature is already planned or implemented to exclude the x-dynatrace header at process or service level so that we can set the same.

--Parkash

Re: Preventing dynatrace from adding a x-dynatrace header

Julius_Loman — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:54:48 GMT

No, I don't think this is possible on your own, only by disabling oneagent features. What issue does the added header raise in your environment?

Re: Preventing dynatrace from adding a x-dynatrace header

Parkash_jha — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:35:20 GMT

Thanks for your response on this @Julius_Loman . We have an AXWAY api gateway in between which is transforming the headers to sent the request to backend services and due to this x-dyantrace header - api transformation resulting into error due to this application got impacted. We have also raised a case #253305 in order to check if some option can be done from the dynatrace end or RFE is needed to fix this issue as we cannot go with infra-only mode as we want to monitor the application as full stack.

--Regards,

Parkash

Re: Preventing dynatrace from adding a x-dynatrace header

Julius_Loman — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:58:41 GMT

@Parkash_jha Is the situation when some axway policies are calculating checksum based on http headers and as they differ between incoming and outgoing requests? We had such a situation with one customer already.