I now tried
from cdb.sympy.calculus import *
\partial{#}::PartialDerivative;
x^{\rho}::Depends(\partial{#});
diff($1/(\eta_{\mu\nu} x^{\mu}x^{\nu})$, $x^{\rho}$);
which gave the error message
File "/home/gpn/.config/cadabra_packages/cdb/sympy/calculus.py", line 20, in diff
dvars.append( sbtmp.to_sympy() )
RuntimeError: Dependencies on derivatives are not yet handled in the SymPy bridge
so I conclude this is not yet possible in cdb.
If anyone has a better answer please let me know.
Thanks
GPN