# excluding certain process type from a query of process availability

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/excluding-certain-process-type-from-a-query-of-process-availability/51148>\
**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** processes, java\
**Created:** [April 10, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/excluding-certain-process-type-from-a-query-of-process-availability/51148 "2025-04-10T07:50:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![MartinB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@MartinB](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/MartinB)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/excluding-certain-process-type-from-a-query-of-process-availability/51148/1 "2025-04-10T07:50:19Z")

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Hi all,

Hello everyone, I am trying to exclude the sysdig processes reported by this query on java processes. I tried with -not(contains,- without success. Any idea? Thanks in advance

_builtin:pgi.availability:filter(and(or(in(“dt.entity.process\_group\_instance”,entitySelector(“type(process\_group\_instance),processType(~“JAVA~”)”))))):splitBy(“dt.entity.process\_group\_instance”):sort(value(auto,ascending)):limit(100)_

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**Author:** ![AntonPineiro](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antonpineiro/32/49_2.png) [@AntonPineiro](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonPineiro)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/excluding-certain-process-type-from-a-query-of-process-availability/51148/2 "2025-04-10T08:23:06Z")

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Hi,

I have just tried in that way and looks like working.

```markup
builtin:pgi.availability.state
:filter(and(or(in("dt.entity.process_group_instance",entitySelector("type(~"PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE~"),not(entityName.contains(~"sysdig~"))"))),or(in("dt.entity.process_group_instance",entitySelector("type(process_group_instance),processType(~"JAVA~")")))))
:splitBy("dt.entity.process_group_instance")
:sort(value(auto,descending))

```

Best regards

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**Author:** ![MartinB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@MartinB](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/MartinB)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/excluding-certain-process-type-from-a-query-of-process-availability/51148/3 "2025-04-11T08:27:31Z")

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Thanks for your help, it works !