# Service Load Spike and Drop Detection for Specific Management Zone

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/service-load-spike-and-drop-detection-for-specific-management-zone/55884>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** anomaly-detection, problems\
**Created:** [May 12, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/service-load-spike-and-drop-detection-for-specific-management-zone/55884 "2026-05-12T17:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sohel\_Rashid](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/sohel_rashid/32/12121_2.png) [@Sohel\_Rashid](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Sohel_Rashid)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/service-load-spike-and-drop-detection-for-specific-management-zone/55884/1 "2026-05-12T17:01:50Z")

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Hi All,

We are checking the Anomaly Detection settings under **Settings → Anomaly detection → Services** in Dynatrace Managed.

Currently, options like:

- Detect service load drops
- Detect service load spikes

are getting applied globally across the environment.

Our requirement is to enable these alert settings only for a specific Management Zone instead of the entire environment.

Could you please confirm:

1. Is it possible to configure Service load drop/spike anomaly detection Management Zone wise?
2. Is there any workaround using custom anomaly detection, metric events, or alerting profiles?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,  
Sohel Rashid

 ![spike_and_drop.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/7/1/716d6f42d2ef797db803002c0d65f744fa09fd12.png)

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**Author:** ![Julius\_Loman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/julius_loman/32/51_2.png) [@Julius\_Loman](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Julius_Loman)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 6:34am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/service-load-spike-and-drop-detection-for-specific-management-zone/55884/2 "2026-05-13T06:34:30Z")

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No, simply this is not possible. A service may be included in multiple management zones.

You can apply the settings on different levels:

- Key request
- Service
- Host group
- Environment

See more at [Settings API - Anomaly detection for services schema table — Dynatrace Managed Docs](https://docs.dynatrace.com/managed/shortlink/api-v2-settings-get-schemas-builtin-anomaly-detection-services). A recommendation will depend on your data segmentation - most likely you will want to have this set on the hostgroup level. If it does not fit your case, you will need to set this on individual services.