# How can I find the skipped urls "At least x contributors were skipped because they occurred extremely rarely"

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**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** sql, web-monitoring, dynatrace-api\
**Created:** [October 31, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-can-i-find-the-skipped-urls-at-least-x-contributors-were-skipped-because-they-occurred-extremely-rarely/53949 "2025-10-31T14:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![runatyr](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/runatyr/32/11396_2.png) [@runatyr](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/runatyr)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-can-i-find-the-skipped-urls-at-least-x-contributors-were-skipped-because-they-occurred-extremely-rarely/53949/1 "2025-10-31T14:07:47Z")

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Helllo: we are trying to clean up and verify certain web pages that do not see a high level of use (or any) so it can be removed. When we go to a web service and select “view all request details” we get the list and then at the bottom it will say **“At least x contributors were skipped because they occurred extremely rarely”**

**Is there any way either through API or some other function in Dyantrace that can be leveraged to get the rest of these urls contributions that are not listed by default?**

**![Dynatrace_Image_3.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/2X/a/a477c49639bffd1d193934eb2cbf275587fcffc7.png)**

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**Author:** ![DanielS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DanielS](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/DanielS)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-can-i-find-the-skipped-urls-at-least-x-contributors-were-skipped-because-they-occurred-extremely-rarely/53949/2 "2025-10-31T18:40:05Z")

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Hello&nbsp;[@runatyr](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/29954)&nbsp;the issue you experienced in the old UI, where data points or “contributors” were skipped, was primarily due to the Top X sampling mechanism and limitations on storing high-cardinality metrics in the legacy architecture (which often relied on specialized databases for time series):

Cardinality Limits (The “Top X”): In the old system, Dynatrace would often track only the top N (e.g., Top 50 or Top 100) dimension values for a metric to conserve resources. Any other values—the “skipped data” or “other contributors”—were grouped together or simply excluded from storage for long-term retention.

Workarounds: Your method of “playing with time” or “changing the dimension order” worked because it forced the system to recalculate the Top X contributors for that specific context, sometimes revealing a different set of dimensions that met the new criteria.

Grail&nbsp;is designed to solve this exact problem by storing all dimensions and the full cardinality of your observability data (including metrics, traces, and logs) in a single data lakehouse. This means there is no longer a fundamental need to skip or sample contributors to manage storage complexity.

 ![DanielS_0-1761935782951.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/3/5/3546d675a48ee771947bdafd16d23a064d071ed7.png)

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**Author:** ![runatyr](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/runatyr/32/11396_2.png) [@runatyr](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/runatyr)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-can-i-find-the-skipped-urls-at-least-x-contributors-were-skipped-because-they-occurred-extremely-rarely/53949/3 "2025-10-31T18:59:26Z")

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Daniel:

This is excellent news. That said… we are on prem. What options exist for on-prem (no grail) 😞

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**Author:** ![DanielS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DanielS](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/DanielS)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-can-i-find-the-skipped-urls-at-least-x-contributors-were-skipped-because-they-occurred-extremely-rarely/53949/4 "2025-10-31T19:51:37Z")

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Hi [@runatyr](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/29954)&nbsp;you can only do what is listed on workarounds.