# \#smartscape **URL:** https://community.dynatrace.com/tag/smartscape/776.md [Latest](https://community.dynatrace.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.dynatrace.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.dynatrace.com/tags.md) --- ## [What are the specific gains and losses if instead of Oneagent, OTel instrumentation is used ?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-are-the-specific-gains-and-losses-if-instead-of-oneagent-otel-instrumentation-is-used/57127)
**Author:** [@mukeshurmaliya](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/mukeshurmaliya)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-are-the-specific-gains-and-losses-if-instead-of-oneagent-otel-instrumentation-is-used/57127 "2026-10-12T18:52:54Z")
I would like to understand the technical advantages and challenges, if OTel instrumentation is used in place of Oneagent for a distributed application with synchronous and asynchronous calls to different internal and ext… --- ## [classic entity to smartscape functions conversion](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/classic-entity-to-smartscape-functions-conversion/55217)
**Author:** [@R928492](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/R928492)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/classic-entity-to-smartscape-functions-conversion/55217 "2026-09-30T20:09:44Z")
timeseries { count = sum( dt.service.request.count, scalar: true, filter: { ( in( dt.entity.service, classicEntitySelector( … --- ## [How to ingest additional Kubernetes Custom Resources (CRs) from a monitored cluster as a metric to be able to configure alerting based on that metric](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-ingest-additional-kubernetes-custom-resources-crs-from-a-monitored-cluster-as-a-metric-to-be-able-to-configure-alerting-based-on-that-metric/56025)
**Author:** [@sheriflashin](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/sheriflashin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-ingest-additional-kubernetes-custom-resources-crs-from-a-monitored-cluster-as-a-metric-to-be-able-to-configure-alerting-based-on-that-metric/56025 "2026-08-12T18:16:06Z")
Table of Contents Summary Kubernetes Platform Monitoring is ingesting a set of Kubernetes resources from the Kube-APIserver on the monitored Kubernetes cluster and present those resources as metrics in Dynatrace, e.g(w… --- ## [Smartscape & Traefik](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-traefik/56125)
**Author:** [@dougwillis](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/dougwillis)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-traefik/56125 "2026-08-06T13:34:51Z")
Hi, I was looking at the smartscapeNodes and there is a K8S\_INGRESS option. I have a few questions about different network ingress options. Does the K8S\_INGRESS option cover the new Gateway API resources like httpRout… --- ## [New Smartscape Entities breaks a lot of Usability](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/new-smartscape-entities-breaks-a-lot-of-usability/56417)
**Author:** [@r\_weber](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/r_weber)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/new-smartscape-entities-breaks-a-lot-of-usability/56417 "2026-07-10T22:32:04Z")
First: the new \*additional\* smartscape entities add a lot of confusion for end-users. Now there are smarscape-services, smartscape-hosts and whatnot. As long as they have been “behind the scenes” that was fine, noone rea… --- ## [How to update/install extensions with Smartscape 2.0 for SaaS Classic](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-update-install-extensions-with-smartscape-2-0-for-saas-classic/56226)
**Author:** [@MilanNinkovic](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/MilanNinkovic)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-update-install-extensions-with-smartscape-2-0-for-saas-classic/56226 "2026-06-19T13:20:40Z")
Summary With the introduction of Smartscape on Grail, newer versions of some Dynatrace extensions depend on capabilities that are not available in SaaS environments that haven’t been migrated to Grail yet. Due to this … --- ## [Extract topology with OpenPipeline](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/extract-topology-with-openpipeline/56114)
**Author:** [@FredSelvaGen](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/FredSelvaGen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/extract-topology-with-openpipeline/56114 "2026-06-12T16:14:02Z")
Hi community, Let’s say that a SERVICE named “cart\_service” is called by 2 others one (named “webapp\_service” and “mobileapp\_service”) By using a span openpipeline, for each collected traces that involved “cart\_servic… --- ## [Plans for Smartscape on Grail to provide a horizontal multi-level service relationship?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/plans-for-smartscape-on-grail-to-provide-a-horizontal-multi-level-service-relationship/55917)
**Author:** [@mwduarte](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/mwduarte)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2026, 1:03am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/plans-for-smartscape-on-grail-to-provide-a-horizontal-multi-level-service-relationship/55917 "2026-05-15T01:03:51Z")
Hello everyone, now that we have SmartScape on Grail, does anyone know of a roadmap for achieving end-to-end horizontal service relationships like we have in Dynatrace Classic with Backtrace and Service Flow? Currently,… --- ## [link log to existing entity](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/link-log-to-existing-entity/55680)
**Author:** [@FabriBernie](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/FabriBernie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/link-log-to-existing-entity/55680 "2026-04-23T14:45:48Z")
I had importing log using API because of technology not currently supported I don’t have any enrichment with context information However, name of k8s cluster and namespace is there Is there a way to link these rows … --- ## [Recreating the Dynatrace Technology Overview Dashboard with Process Groups, Alerts and DQL in Gen3](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/recreating-the-dynatrace-technology-overview-dashboard-with-process-groups-alerts-and-dql-in-gen3/55116)
**Author:** [@GregOReilly](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/GregOReilly)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/recreating-the-dynatrace-technology-overview-dashboard-with-process-groups-alerts-and-dql-in-gen3/55116 "2026-04-20T11:01:10Z")
Hello everyone,I’m a bit old-school and still miss some of the classic Dynatrace features.Now that Smartscape has fully transitioned to the Gen3 platform, the old Technology Overview remains. I really liked how it let yo… --- ## [Filtering: wildcards, operators, tags, Smartscape](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/filtering-wildcards-operators-tags-smartscape/55341)
**Author:** [@zietho](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/zietho)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/filtering-wildcards-operators-tags-smartscape/55341 "2026-03-24T11:25:12Z")
Filtering is how you turn “all the telemetry” into the slice that answers your question. In Dynatrace, in a tile (Dashboards) or section (Notebooks), you’ll typically filter in either of the two ways: Explore data (Da… --- ## [Access to the resource is forbidden using Power BI Dynatrace Grail DQL Connector for smartscape commands in DQL](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/access-to-the-resource-is-forbidden-using-power-bi-dynatrace-grail-dql-connector-for-smartscape-commands-in-dql/55279)
**Author:** [@AlanFoley](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AlanFoley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/access-to-the-resource-is-forbidden-using-power-bi-dynatrace-grail-dql-connector-for-smartscape-commands-in-dql/55279 "2026-03-17T13:47:18Z")
Hi I am trying to get the following DQL commands working using Power BI Dynatrace Grail DQL Connector DQL commands like: “fetch dt.system.events” or “fetch dt.entity.host” all work 100% so I have permission to access D… --- ## [Time for question nr 1000, creating entities in Grail from (custom) metrics](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/time-for-question-nr-1000-creating-entities-in-grail-from-custom-metrics/45835)
**Author:** [@henk\_stobbe](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/henk_stobbe)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/time-for-question-nr-1000-creating-entities-in-grail-from-custom-metrics/45835 "2025-08-25T15:50:55Z")
Most of my knowledge originates from this community, so thanks to you all! I have seen that Dynatrace creates entities, that are extracted from metric dimensions, so Dynatrace when is the moment that we can add our ow… --- ## [Filter only active hosts, processes, services and applications using entitySelector](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/filter-only-active-hosts-processes-services-and-applications-using-entityselector/52824)
**Author:** [@HuseynNajafli](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/HuseynNajafli)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/filter-only-active-hosts-processes-services-and-applications-using-entityselector/52824 "2025-08-06T14:13:10Z")
Hello. I want to create a management zone for my Windows hosts which shows only active Windows hosts (there are connected Linux hosts, but I don’t want showing Linux hosts only Windows hosts), active processes, active … --- ## ["Hide inactive" option selected always](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hide-inactive-option-selected-always/21029)
**Author:** [@jgarcianar](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/jgarcianar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hide-inactive-option-selected-always/21029 "2025-08-06T08:46:19Z")
Hi, Is it possible to keep selected “Hide inactive” option on Smartcape Topology always? I mean, I could “Show inactive” when I desire, but I don’t want to see 3 thousand of Candidate hosts that below to one VCenter alw… --- ## [Smartscape showing wrong host count](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-showing-wrong-host-count/51885)
**Author:** [@LordNykkon](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/LordNykkon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-showing-wrong-host-count/51885 "2025-05-30T20:54:29Z")
We’ve got the OneAgent installed on roughly 1400 servers and according to a DQL query there are 55 additional monitoring candidates. However, when we open the Smartscape app, the host count shows over 22,000 hosts. When … --- ## [Export topology relationship](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/export-topology-relationship/48953)
**Author:** [@roberto\_ravo](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/roberto_ravo)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/export-topology-relationship/48953 "2024-11-19T16:11:52Z")
Hi all! We would like to try to extract all entities from a given application. We have identified the possibility of using the /api/v2/entities API and extracting entities by type using the relationship part and then ma… --- ## [Display in Smartscape](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/display-in-smartscape/47768)
**Author:** [@yuval1983](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/yuval1983)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/display-in-smartscape/47768 "2024-09-19T08:11:04Z")
Hello everyone After we arrived in excellent condition including filters and tags we want to try using the Smartscape area The question is We can’t find the search lines here (the picture here is from one guide or ano… --- ## [Smartscape topology with host level information for incoming and outgoing connections](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-topology-with-host-level-information-for-incoming-and-outgoing-connections/46864)
**Author:** [@SrikanthSamraj](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/SrikanthSamraj)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-topology-with-host-level-information-for-incoming-and-outgoing-connections/46864 "2024-07-29T11:25:45Z")
Hi, Can we visualize hosts that are making incoming and outgoing connections with a specific host using smartscape topology? Regards, Srikanth S --- ## [Loosing datacenter in smartscape while using MZ](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/loosing-datacenter-in-smartscape-while-using-mz/21245)
**Author:** [@henk\_stobbe](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/henk_stobbe)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/loosing-datacenter-in-smartscape-while-using-mz/21245 "2024-07-03T17:56:25Z")
Hello, When I use a management zone, it seems I loose the datacenters in the smartscape? Is this a bug? The hosts in the selected MZ are part of datacenters, and this is visible when using no MZ KR Henk --- ## [Smartscape limitation](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-limitation/44328)
**Author:** [@vchandna](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/vchandna)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-limitation/44328 "2024-03-06T11:24:52Z")
1. Cannot apply time filter 2. Doesn’t correlate horizontally. ie service to service or process to process. That is time based behavior correlation. 3. Vertical correlation is low value. ie service to process to host i… --- ## [No data centers detected](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/no-data-centers-detected/19263)
**Author:** [@Babar\_Qayyum](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Babar_Qayyum)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2023, 6:08am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/no-data-centers-detected/19263 "2023-06-08T06:08:41Z")
Dear All, What could be the reason behind no data centers detected? Regards, Babar --- ## [Smartscape showiing Data discrepancy](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-showiing-data-discrepancy/39419)
**Author:** [@ThaplooT](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ThaplooT)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/smartscape-showiing-data-discrepancy/39419 "2023-04-24T07:39:37Z")
Hi Team Has anyone faced the issue where Data discrepancy is in Smartscapeview when compared to host count In smart scape overview on one application we are seeing host of other management zone(application) , Thanks T… --- ## [When process has error detected, want to show services error that is related to process at smartscape](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/when-process-has-error-detected-want-to-show-services-error-that-is-related-to-process-at-smartscape/39062)
**Author:** [@MayThiriAung](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/MayThiriAung)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/when-process-has-error-detected-want-to-show-services-error-that-is-related-to-process-at-smartscape/39062 "2023-03-29T20:14:08Z")
Hi all When the process has error detected, want to show services error that is related to process at smartscape. At the below picture, process occurs an error. At that time I want to show red color in services that ar… --- ## [Showing backtrace service on Smartscape](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/showing-backtrace-service-on-smartscape/38777)
**Author:** [@MayThiriAung](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/MayThiriAung)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/showing-backtrace-service-on-smartscape/38777 "2023-03-20T07:30:10Z")
Hi All, I want to show the backtrace service with red color on Smartscape that calls a third-party service and an error on a third-party service. Now, it only shows third party services with red color. I want to show s… --- ## [Viewing hosts on Smartscape without OneAgent installed on them](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/viewing-hosts-on-smartscape-without-oneagent-installed-on-them/38675)
**Author:** [@Jorge3229](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Jorge3229)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2023, 5:42am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/viewing-hosts-on-smartscape-without-oneagent-installed-on-them/38675 "2023-03-03T05:42:42Z")
Hi community, I have a question, on my SmartScape I can see 1000 host but for example 250 does not have OneAgent installed, how I can show this information on a (report, metric or dashboard)? --- ## [Announcing vulnerabilities in Smartscape view](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/announcing-vulnerabilities-in-smartscape-view/35724)
**Author:** [@AndreaFabricius](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AndreaFabricius)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/announcing-vulnerabilities-in-smartscape-view/35724 "2023-01-09T21:58:53Z")
The Smartscape topology will be extended to highlight entities that are affected by vulnerabilities. This gives you access to a detailed topological view of your entire environment, focusing on application security. For… --- ## [Finding source of abnormal (high/low) traffic](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/finding-source-of-abnormal-high-low-traffic/37617)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Youssef](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Peter_Youssef)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/finding-source-of-abnormal-high-low-traffic/37617 "2022-12-08T12:40:59Z")
Is it possible through Dynatrace to detect the source that originates the high traffic to a host that’s monitored within Dynatrace or not? If yes, kindly tell me where / how to get the incoming traffic to a monitored ho… --- ## [What does it mean if my host have no lines connecting it?](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-does-it-mean-if-my-host-have-no-lines-connecting-it/36506)
**Author:** [@leonatay](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/leonatay)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-does-it-mean-if-my-host-have-no-lines-connecting-it/36506 "2022-09-15T20:35:22Z")
2 of my hosts is isolated at smartscape topology, what does it mean? is it the reason when I clicked on analyze process connection on both hosts, the page is showing “your processes on this host are not communicati… --- ## [angular/nginx services not connected to back end microservices](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/angular-nginx-services-not-connected-to-back-end-microservices/35374)
**Author:** [@oliverb\_pickles](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/oliverb_pickles)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/angular-nginx-services-not-connected-to-back-end-microservices/35374 "2022-06-07T04:17:44Z")
hello. i am facing an issue with our current web based application. in our multi-tier distributed system we have a front end single page application running on a angular framework. we have several spa’s running as con… [Next page](https://community.dynatrace.com/tag/smartscape/776.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=smartscape)