# See the metric but no data in custom metric ingestion

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/see-the-metric-but-no-data-in-custom-metric-ingestion/44683>\
**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** dynatrace-managed\
**Created:** [March 15, 2024, 9:49am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/see-the-metric-but-no-data-in-custom-metric-ingestion/44683 "2024-03-15T09:49:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sturzi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/sturzi/32/16405_2.png) [@Sturzi](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Sturzi)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 9:49am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/see-the-metric-but-no-data-in-custom-metric-ingestion/44683/1 "2024-03-15T09:49:15Z")

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Hi everybody

I want to ingest data for a custom metric (msgqueue-depth) using the Rest-API.

Therefore I’m successfully run the following payload:

xyz.Queuesize.Qname, type=queue,msgq=1 110

When I open the data explorer I see that the custom metric has been created, but I don’t see any data.

My idea was that it must have something to do with the created timestamp of the datapoint. Thats why I changed it by adding a timestamp in milliseconds:

xyz.Queuesize.Qname, type=queue,msgq=1 110 171049358800 (--\> 3/15/2024 9:06:28 AM)

The reuest has been accepted as well, but I’m still not able to see the datapoint.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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**Author:** ![michiel\_otten](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/michiel_otten/32/21987_2.png) [@michiel\_otten](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/michiel_otten)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/see-the-metric-but-no-data-in-custom-metric-ingestion/44683/2 "2024-03-15T10:08:50Z")

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What’s the response of your ingest API request?&nbsp; Do you get a HTTP200 back every time?

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**Author:** ![Sturzi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/sturzi/32/16405_2.png) [@Sturzi](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Sturzi)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/see-the-metric-but-no-data-in-custom-metric-ingestion/44683/3 "2024-03-15T10:13:23Z")

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202:

{

“linesOk”:1,

“linesInvalid”:0,

“error”: null,

“warnings”:null

}

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**Author:** ![Sturzi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/sturzi/32/16405_2.png) [@Sturzi](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Sturzi)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 6:52am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/see-the-metric-but-no-data-in-custom-metric-ingestion/44683/4 "2024-03-21T06:52:21Z")

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It turned out that there were no more DDU’s available.

Would be cool to mention the “Metric Dimension Usage & Rejections” Dashboard also in the API-Docs. It helped me a lot.

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**Author:** ![michiel\_otten](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/michiel_otten/32/21987_2.png) [@michiel\_otten](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/michiel_otten)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/see-the-metric-but-no-data-in-custom-metric-ingestion/44683/5 "2024-03-21T07:38:29Z")

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Luckily you’ve identified the issue.  
DDU information is able to be investigated whilst charting.  
For the other one I suggest requesting an RFE!

KR.

Michiel