# Stop alerting on specific requests

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** problems-classic\
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302 "2022-05-30T07:09:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Malaik](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/malaik/32/32673_2.png) [@Malaik](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Malaik)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302/1 "2022-05-30T07:09:41Z")

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Hello Community

I want to stop alerting for a specific requests (for a specific service).

All GET requests should not alert.

I know that I can mute the requests, but with the mute I will skip the statistics (response time, failures…).

So, to resume, I want to keep all the KPI and statistics, the only thing is to not alert.

Thanks for your suggestions,

Have a good day.

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**Author:** ![Yosi\_Neuman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/yosi_neuman/32/9845_2.png) [@Yosi\_Neuman](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Yosi_Neuman)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302/2 "2022-05-30T07:24:52Z")

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Hi&nbsp;[@Malaik](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/23195)&nbsp;,

Is it possible to separate the GETs to a different service and then tag it for maintenance window that will not alerts?

Yos

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**Author:** ![Malaik](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/malaik/32/32673_2.png) [@Malaik](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Malaik)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302/3 "2022-05-30T08:50:30Z")

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Hi&nbsp;[@Yosi\_Neuman](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/6931)

How can I group all in the same service?

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**Author:** ![Yosi\_Neuman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/yosi_neuman/32/9845_2.png) [@Yosi\_Neuman](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Yosi_Neuman)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302/4 "2022-05-30T10:48:11Z")

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Hi&nbsp;[@Malaik](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/23195)

Thought about rest api&nbsp;service detection Rules with condition for&nbsp;WEBSERVICE\_METHOD, but I’m not sure if it works or not.

HTH and will not miss lead you

Yos

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**Author:** ![anas\_milhem](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/anas_milhem/32/23040_2.png) [@anas\_milhem](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/anas_milhem)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302/5 "2022-06-01T19:43:31Z")

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Hey&nbsp;[@Malaik](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/23195)&nbsp;!

A workaround you can do is maybe mark the important requests you want to alert on as key requests. You can then turn off response time degradation and failure rate detection for the service but turn it on for your key requests

 ![anas_milhem_0-1654112575610.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/5/3/534f350318a897a8c19aefaa1ee4498a8c74ada2.png)

Thank You!  
Anas Milhem

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**Author:** ![Malaik](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/malaik/32/32673_2.png) [@Malaik](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Malaik)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 4:48am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302/6 "2022-06-02T04:48:38Z")

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Thanks Anas,

Yes I was thinking for that but it will take a huge time because the number of requests is too high.

I found the temporary solution which is to group that requests and mute them.

Its working fine right now, let see.

Have a good day.

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**Author:** ![techean](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/techean/32/227_2.png) [@techean](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/techean)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/stop-alerting-on-specific-requests/35302/7 "2022-06-02T11:46:07Z")

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You can try custom proces detection rule&nbsp;[Set up custom process groups for monitoring | Dynatrace news](https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/set-custom-process-groups-monitoring/). And than try setting up maintenance window as said by&nbsp;[@Yosi\_Neuman](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/6931)
