topic DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces in Automations

DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

florian_zimmerm — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:31:21 GMT

is there a (as of yet) undocumented way to get in values with spaces (key/value) metadata (or tags by using DT_TAGS). is there a way to escape spaces or using a special character interpreted as space in dynatrace?

we have the need to set a key 'support_group', and it needs to hold values like 'department web - team1, department web - team2, ...'.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/tags-and-metadata/basic-concepts/best-practices-and-recommendations-for-tagging/

thanks in advance, florian

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

skrystosik — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 19:39:07 GMT

As I know it isn't supported right now.

Sebastian

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

sean_mcconville — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:40:37 GMT

Did this ever get addressed?

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

alex_luchs — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:33:30 GMT

Yes, this would be really great to be supported either through quoting the value (key="value with spaces") or escaping with backslashes (key=value\ with\ spaces). Other tagging techanisms, including manual, AWS tag ingest, etc. allow for spaces. Why not DT_TAGS environment based tags?

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

Babar_Qayyum — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:55:45 GMT

Hello @florian_zimmerm and @alex_luchs

As we know spaces are used to separate tag values until now. Therefore, please go ahead and open an idea to enhance the application's capability.

Regards,

Babar

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

alex_luchs — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:12:15 GMT

Sorry for not seeing your reply for a month. Whoops!

I've created the product idea here: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-product-ideas/Add-support-for-spaces-in-tag-values-provided-by-environment/idi-p/177683#M27106

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

prasad_arugonda — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:24:39 GMT

Instead of space, you could use a tab (is a tabulation character). this worked for me

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

David_Proximus — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:39:12 GMT

Hi all,

We are facing a similar issue on our side with DT_CUSTOM_PROP

A couple of days ago, we have noticed a Dynatrace bug with DT_CUSTOM_PROP which translate "tabs" into "spaces"

We are benefiting from this bug as we are now using tabs whenever we need spaces... and as a workaround, this works for us including for auto-tagging !

In your example above, this would be

export DT_TAGS="value with spaces"

where there is a tab between value and with and another tab between with and spaces

This is seen better in below screenshot using vi with :set list

Tabs are represented as ^I special characters

Maybe this workaround will help while Dynatrace is considering the product idea to support spaces officially.

Hope this helps,

Kind regards,

David

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

fstekelenburg — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:29:04 GMT

unfortunately status: Not planned

Re: DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

nils_stellhorn — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:57:09 GMT

You can use vertical tabs with alt + 0160. This also works in the GUI under Deployment status -> OneAgents. Then select all OneAgents for which you want to add an environment variable tag and select "Modify host tags". Then you can give it a key or a value with a space. At the location where the space is needed, just press alt + 0160 and your space will appear.