Disable Custom Metric ext

[elisag]

Hi,

can i deactivate custom ext extensions?

I have these ext metric:

https://dt.clientdatamasked.com/e/84f19ffc-clientdatamasked-aebbb/ui/data-explorer?dashboardId=83fe0...

example:

ext:tech.IBM_i.JobQueue.HeldJobs

Can i deactivate this custom metric?

Consume a lot of DDU and i want to deactvivate it.

Thank you

Elisa

[Mike_L]

That metric is coming from the IBM i extension. You can turn off that extension if you go to Settings -> Monitored technologies -> Custom Extensions -> IBM i and disable the endpoints.

I'd assume that someone installed it due to needing to monitor IBM i though, so make sure that you're not removing monitoring that someone needs.

[elisag]

Ho Mike,

i don't want to delete the custom extension monitoring but some of the custom ext metric for have little consume of DDU license.

It's possible? Or deactivate metric?

Thank you a lot

ELisa Gaiti

[Mike_L]

That's not possible in a generic way. Many extensions have specific configurations to not monitor everything, such as the IBM i extension allowing you to select which jobs to monitor.

[dannemca]

@Mike_L, What if we remove the reference from the metric in the extension zip, in files custom_ibm_i_plugin_remote.py and plugin.json, then re-zip and upload as a new version to Dynatrace and to AG?

Will it works?

[Mike_L]

That will work but you'd lose all support of the extension and not be able to migrate to new versions without redoing the change every time.

[elisag]

Hi,

thank you for your answers.

It is possible to make a suggestion of a change in the other version of Dynatrace?

We don't use a lot of ext metrics but these metrics consume DDU.

I can ask the possibility to deactivate in the future release of Dynatrace?

Thank you a lot

Elisa Gaiti

[Michal_Gebacki]

Hi @Mike_L! How to get through areas that @elisag mentioned above? Thank you for any feedback in advance!

[Mike_L · Accepted solution]

Please raise an RFE on the forum regarding "Allow to deselect individual metrics in extensions and not just feature sets".