DT_CUSTOM_PROP and spaces

[florian_zimmerm]

is there a (as of yet) undocumented way to get in values with spaces (key/value) metadata (or tags by using DT_TAGS). is there a way to escape spaces or using a special character interpreted as space in dynatrace?

we have the need to set a key 'support_group', and it needs to hold values like 'department web - team1, department web - team2, ...'.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/tags-and-metadata/basic-concepts/best-pr...

thanks in advance, florian

[skrystosik]

As I know it isn't supported right now.

Sebastian

[sean_mcconville]

Did this ever get addressed?

[alex_luchs]

Yes, this would be really great to be supported either through quoting the value (key="value with spaces") or escaping with backslashes (key=value\ with\ spaces). Other tagging techanisms, including manual, AWS tag ingest, etc. allow for spaces. Why not DT_TAGS environment based tags?

[Babar_Qayyum]

Hello @florian_zimmerm  and @alex_luchs 

As we know spaces are used to separate tag values until now. Therefore, please go ahead and open an idea to enhance the application's capability.

Regards,

Babar

[alex_luchs · Accepted solution]

Sorry for not seeing your reply for a month. Whoops!

I've created the product idea here: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-product-ideas/Add-support-for-spaces-in-tag-values-prov...

[fstekelenburg]

unfortunately status: Not planned

[David_Proximus]

Hi all,

We are facing a similar issue on our side with DT_CUSTOM_PROP

A couple of days ago, we have noticed a Dynatrace bug with DT_CUSTOM_PROP which translate "tabs" into "spaces"

We are benefiting from this bug as we are now using tabs whenever we need spaces... and as a workaround, this works for us including for auto-tagging !

In your example above, this would be 

export DT_TAGS="value	with	spaces"

where there is a tab between value and with and another tab between with and spaces

This is seen better in below screenshot using vi with :set list

Tabs are represented as   ^I   special characters

Maybe this workaround will help while Dynatrace is considering the product idea to support spaces officially.

Hope this helps,

Kind regards,

David

[prasad_arugonda]

Instead of space, you could use a tab (is a tabulation character). this worked for me