Wild Card or REGEX in data explorer / custom event alerting profile

[pvr]

Hello,

Does the DT GUI allow us to filter on regular expressions or wild cards for the data explorer and custom alerting profiles? 

I have a use case of collecting ready message count in a number of queues all with names ending in "*_error" ,  when I try to put in a similar wildcard it fails to filter on it. 

Help/Advice appreciated. 

thanks

Ven

[ChadTurner · Accepted solution]

regex is really only applicable in certain subsets of Dynatrace for example Auto Tags, Request Attributes, Management Zones etc.... 

[paolo_fumanelli]

Not sure I got the precise use case, but did you try entityName("_error") that works as "contains" clause? Unfortunately there is startsWith but not endsWith.

[AgataWlodarczyk]

@pvr do you still need help with your case?
Or have you already found a solution? If yes, feel free to share. Other Community members would be happy to know the answer. 🙂

[Adil_Saleem]

Hi All,
I was stuck in the same issue. I wanted to filter out all the results that were ending with some xyz string. In code tab of data explorer, there was a option called 'prefix' in filter. As I want to detect xyz suffix, I just used suffix in filter and it worked for me.

Long story short, you can use suffix key word like this:
filter(suffix("Dimension","<your sub string that you want to search>"))
 and it will filter out all the data that has your desired sub string at the end.

🙂

Let me know if this works for you as well.