topic Re: Exclude workloads from being monitored in Kubernetes in Container platforms

Exclude workloads from being monitored in Kubernetes

Nathanieltat — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:45:21 GMT

We have been trying to figure out how to exclude workloads and all subsequent pods within that workload in Kubernetes from being monitored in dynatrace, we can exclude pods and namespaces but not the workloads, e.g. trying to exclude the jaeger-production-collector workload as its not needed to be monitored.

Re: Exclude workloads from being monitored in Kubernetes

Mizső — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:19:53 GMT

Hi @Nathanieltat

Try this, maybe help.

I thnik you have many options with Maintenance Windows.

1. You can chose a specific workload by entity id. You can easily find it in the browser.

2. Better solution that you can chose a tag for filter the manintenance windows entities. So you just need to apply one tag for those workloads which should not be the scope of the monitoring.

3. Create a Management zone for excluding workloads form monitoring and use it at the Maintenenace windows.

These rules can be use for creating MZ:

Or combine the tags and MZ in the MZ riule:

I hope it helps.

Best regards,

János

Re: Exclude workloads from being monitored in Kubernetes

Nathanieltat — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:11:28 GMT

Thank you, yes we tagged them with a (Monitor not needed) and selected a maintenance window for all items with that tag so it wouldn't alert and it has worked.

Re: Exclude workloads from being monitored in Kubernetes

Theodore_x86 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:26:03 GMT

Hello.

Can't you just annotate the pods defined on workload manifest with:

oneagent.dynatrace.com/inject: "false" ?