Export Spam Filters

Once you have created spam filters as defined in Set Spam Filters, do the following:

1. Navigate to Settings > Datasets in your organization.

2. Select your dataset and click the Spam filters tab.

3. Select your spam filter, name it, click the Download button, and download the YAML files of your choice.

   

Understand the Export Formats

You can download one or both of the following formats, depending on where you want the filter to run.

OpenTelemetry Collector YAML

The low-level OTTL representation of your filter, ready to drop into your own OpenTelemetry Collector's processorsCopy section. Use this to filter telemetry directly in your infrastructure, before it leaves your environment.

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# This is a configuration snippet for the OpenTelemetry Collector filter processor.
# See: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/processor/filterprocessor/README.md
processors:
  filter/ottl:
    logs:
      log_record:
        - '((resource.attributes["service.name"] != nil and ConvertCase(String(resource.attributes["service.name"]), "lower") == "api-gateway") or (attributes["service.name"] != nil and ConvertCase(String(attributes["service.name"]), "lower") == "api-gateway") or (instrumentation_scope.attributes["service.name"] != nil and ConvertCase(String(instrumentation_scope.attributes["service.name"]), "lower") == "api-gateway"))'

Spam Filter CRD

The declarative Dash0SpamFilterCopy custom resource, used to manage the filter as code via the Dash0 Operator for Kubernetes. Use this when you want Dash0 to enforce the filter and prefer to version and deploy it alongside your other Kubernetes manifests.

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apiVersion: v1alpha2
kind: Dash0SpamFilter
metadata:
  name: drop-health-checks
  labels:
    dash0.com/id: 43f4ac1b-c9e3-4a5b-836f-4de4b449607d
    dash0.com/source: ui
spec:
  context: log
  filter:
    - key: service.name
      operator: is
      value: health-check

Further Reading

• About Cost Control — Overview of Dash0's cost control features.
• Set Spam Filters — Create and manage spam filters in the Dash0 UI.
• Manage Spam Filters as Code — Deploy spam filters using the Dash0 Operator for Kubernetes, the Dash0 Terraform Provider, or the Dash0 CLI.