Custom Extensions Creator

Custom Extensions Creator

Create custom extensions with a few clicks

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Overview

Custom Extensions Creator lets you create custom 2.0 extensions directly on the Dynatrace web UI.

You can:

Create new extensions
Import existing extensions from your environment or a file
Change metrics, groups, dimensions, feature sets, and more
Quickly build, sign, and publish extensions to your environment

Use cases

Quickly edit an existing extension and deploy without touching YAML files
Migrate a Custom DB Query extension from v1 to v2 with a single click
Sign a new extension directly from the browser in the Dynatrace web UI
Create a new monitoring configuration
Share the extension YAML with your team

Get started

To use Custom Extensions Creator, the user must be granted the following permissions:

The AppEngine - User policy.
A policy with permissions:

ALLOW environment-api:extensions:write;
ALLOW environment-api:extensions:read; 
ALLOW extensions:definitions:read;

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1.2.3

Minor Changes

e00c766: * Update tables and the UI editor to be in a single page
- Update the app header and fix an issue with the navigation
- Fix an issue with the cron scheduler where week and month days were not starting at 1

Patch Changes

55c66ec: Add support for schema validation for SQL extensions

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1.1.6

Patch Changes

SQL - Add a new feature to show available columns when creating a SQL extension
SQL - Add support for schema validation for SQL extensions
SQL - Add the most recent validation for cron schedule
SQL - Fix an issue where var: could not be used in the interval field
SQL - Fix an issue where the timeout was incorrectly validated when schedule was used

1.1.3

Patch Changes

5d20d71: * Fix an issue where the interval was validated even when schedule was used
- Add support for parsing the SQL queries and showing which columns are available

1.1.2

Patch Changes

d04a140: Use form validation best practices

1.1.1

Patch Changes

538e7e1: Check for app state size before allowing save
04ceeaf: Fix save and deploy button states

1.1.0

Minor Changes

Adds support for a new editor view, allowing users to:
- Edit any declarative extension extension.yaml file
- Work with schema support, the editor has full autocomplete and error detection for the extension schema
- Add metrics metadata, topology, screens, and more
Add editor support for all declarative datasources:
- SQL
- SNMP
- SNMP Traps
- JMX
- WMI
- Prometheus
- JDBC
Add UI support for JMX extensions
- Users can now use the UI to create, edit, and deploy JMX extensions on top of the already supported SQL and SNMP datasources

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1.1.2

Adds support for a new editor view, allowing users to:
- Edit any declarative extension extension.yaml file
- Work with schema support, the editor has full autocomplete and error detection for the extension schema
- Add metrics metadata, topology, screens, and more
Add editor support for all declarative datasources:
- SQL
- SNMP
- SNMP Traps
- JMX
- WMI
- Prometheus
- JDBC
Add UI support for JMX extensions
- Users can now use the UI to create, edit, and deploy JMX extensions on top of the already supported SQL and SNMP datasources
Rework the forms for SQL and SNMP datasources
- Users can now validate cron expressions directly in the SQL extension form
- Erros should be clearer
Fix an issue when signing with an invalid certificate did not produce an error

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1.0.2

Patch Changes

cfa1418: SQL - fix an issue with the timeout and interval calculation being inverted

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1.0.1

Patch Changes

55c2d52: Add support for cronlike intervals
Fix an issue where an invalid app state could cause a state reset
Allow shares to be stopped even if they were deleted outside the app
Show an error message when the timeout is larger than the interval
8e382eb: Show a validation error if interval is greater than timeout

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1.0.0

There are no breaking changes, the version is bumped to 1.0.0 to follow Dynatrace's app semantic versioning

Patch Changes

Add initial support for the SNMP datasource
bf86aa4: Don't return empty states if the state service fails with errors other than a 404

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0.0.20

Patch Changes

444a1cd: Remove quoted strings from queries before validating them
a61f6d7: Add new app icon

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