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Service monitoring settings

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You can modify service settings both globally—across all services in your environment—or for individual services.

Environment

To define service settings globally

  • Latest Dynatrace: Go to Settings Settings > Process and contextualize > Services.
  • Dynatrace Classic: Go to Settings > Server-side service monitoring.
Service

To define service settings for an individual service

Latest Dynatrace

  1. Go to Services Services.
  2. Select the service you want to configure.
  3. In the upper-right corner of the service details pane, select (Actions menu) > Settings.

Dynatrace Classic

  1. Go to Services Classic Services Classic.
  2. Select the service you want to configure.
  3. On the service overview page, select More (…) > Settings.

APIs are available for the majority of the settings.

Rules and settings on the service level override the ones defined globally.

SettingGlobal (web UI)APIService-level (web UI)

Enhanced endpoints

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Failure detection

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Key requests

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Mute requests

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Anomaly detection

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Custom service detection rules

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Custom service naming rules

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Custom services

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Messaging services

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Merged services Deprecated 1

Applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Unified services

Applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Request attributes

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Custom API definitions

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Calculated service metric

Applicable

Applicable

Not applicable

Request-naming rules

Not applicable

Applicable

Applicable

Third-party service monitoring

Not applicable

Applicable

Applicable

1

You can create the equivalent of a merged service via Custom service detection rules. Existing merged services can be viewed and edited via the Dynatrace web UI.

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Application Observability