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Metadata and tagging

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  • 1-min read
  • Published Jul 28, 2023

Explore the various ways you can automate and manage metadata in your system.

Utilize your data for a tailored Dynatrace platform experience

Enrich Kubernetes telemetry with primary Grail tags and fields using namespace labels, annotations, and central configuration.

Kubernetes telemetry enrichment

Utilize your metadata from namespace labels and annotations, pod annotations, etc. for a tailored Dynatrace platform experience by enriching all Kubernetes telemetry — metrics, logs, traces, events, and entities.

Dynatrace Classic

The following pages describe the previous documentation for Kubernetes metadata enrichment, kept for reference.

Kubernetes telemetry metadata enrichment

Enrich your telemetry data with Kubernetes metadata.

Configure enrichment directory

Enrich your metrics with additional metadata, enhancing the depth and usefulness of your data analysis.

Metadata enrichment of all telemetry data originating from Kubernetes workloads

An explanation of the different ways to enrich Kubernetes telemetry signals with metadata in Dynatrace — covering namespace/pod annotations, DynaKube resource attributes, and OpenTelemetry environment variables — and which signal types each approach covers.

Configure metadata enrichment

Configure Dynatrace Operator to attach Kubernetes metadata to telemetry signals across OneAgent injection, OTLP exporter injection, and standalone enrichment modes.

Configure build label propagation

Configure build label propagation to provide build and version metadata information to the injected OneAgent about the newly deployed pods.