Why a service request appears like "*"?

[etorrebl]

Hi all.

SaaS environment shows requests as "*". This environment has following features:

• one instance AWS EC2
• all services are docker images
• load balancing, firewall, CDN provided by AWS CloudFront
• aplicactions use services through Zuul API Gateway. API Gateway is running on docker image.
• service flow only shows one level: web app -> web request service (under NGINX). But all requests to API Gateway don't appear in purepath

Someone has seen something similar?.

Thans & Regards

ETV

[skrystosik]

If you have any number in process name, dynatrace by default change it into *.

Sebastian

[ChadTurner]

I would open a support chat with Dynatrace just to ensure the application is working as intended and if need be they can assist you with renaming those requests

[skrystosik · Accepted solution]

Ok question is about requests, not service name. If this service is called something like background threads on xxx or unexpected service than marking requests as * is something normal. For background threads you will have to create custom service to change this behaviour.

Sebastian