Create the JMeter test plan, and name it Test the findJourneys Interface.

Make sure the Run Thread Groups consecutively check box is selected in Test Plan properties. This ensures test run registration always executes before running the test.

Register a new test run of the Web API category, This is done by a REST call to the AppMon server. The REST call executes a POST request which registers a test run.

In JMeter, create a new ThreadGroup and name it Register Test Run. Add an instance of HTTP Authorization Manager. This is done because server REST interface access is protected with basic authentication:

Add a HTTP Header Manager to set the default Content-Type to text/xml:

Add an HTTP Request Sampler that POSTs to the testrun URI to register a new test run. To do this, right-click the thread group and select Add > Sampler > HTTP Request. You can specify the body of this request either as XML or JSO.

This example uses XML to register a test run for Web API tests, running on platform Windows and for version 5.1.1500.1234:

<testRun category="webapi" platform="Windows" versionMajor="5" versionMinor="1" versionRevision="1500" versionBuild="1234" />

The XML response returned for this call contains the test run ID. Use this as the id attribute value. This tags all requests belonging to this test run. It also contains an attribute called href that contains a URI that fetches the results for this test run.

Extract the test run ID to tag all the HTTP requests to the findJourneys service. Use an XPath Extractor to get the id attribute and save it in the DT_TESTRUN_ID variable.

To make fetching the results easier, add a second XPath extract for the href attribute:

These variables are used in subsequent steps of the test plan. Use JMeter properties to pass them along. To do this, add an instance of the BeanShell PostProcessor with the following code. The code uses the variables DT_TESTRUN_ID and TESTRUN_RESULT_HREF as properties in other steps of the test plan.

import org.apache.jmeter.util.JMeterUtils;
JMeterUtils.setProperty("testrunId", vars.get("DT_TESTRUN_ID"));
JMeterUtils.setProperty("href", vars.get("TESTRUN_RESULT_HREF"));

Create the actual test request to the web service. First, add a new ThreadGroup to the test plan and call it Call findJourneys Service.
 
Add an HTTP Request sampler and name it Execute request to findJourneys. Configure it as shown in the following, which assumes the easyTravel customer frontend is running at localhost:8080. Adapt the host/port as needed.

To tag the request with the test run ID, add a BeanShell PreProcessor to the HTTP Request and call it AppMonTagging. This Preprocessor reads the set properties and sets the test run ID as part of the X-dynatrace header tag:

An HTTP Header Manager is needed for this step. Just having the header manager is enough, so no further configuration is needed:

Use the following script to set the right header tag.

import org.apache.jmeter.util.JMeterUtils;
String trid=JMeterUtils.getProperty("testrunId");
String NA=sampler.getName();
String VU=ctx.getThreadGroup().getName() + ctx.getThreadNum();
sampler.getHeaderManager().clear();
sampler.getHeaderManager().add(new org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.Header("X-dynaTrace","NA=" +NA+";TR="+trid+";RC=200" ));

The final preprocessor configuration should look as follows.

This executes the web service call using the right X-dynatrace tag to have this request show up as a Web API test in the Test Automation Dashlet. The request uses NA field sampler name, which is the name of the API shown in the dashlet. the TR field contains the test run ID obtaining by registering the test run the RC field contains the expected response code.

You can now looks at the results on JMeterTo do this, add a Results Tree to the Test Plan.

You can now run the test plan. Use the Play button in the toolbar to run the test plan.

The View Results tree shows individual test steps, the sampler, and the request and response data, as shown in the following.

Run the test a few more times to have more data in the Test Automation Dashlet.

Once the request executes, you can see request results in the Test Automation Dashlet. In the AppMon Client, open the Test Automation Dashlet from the Cockpit.

With the dashlet open, adjust the time filter to the last 30 minutes, to make it easier to find the requests you just executed. This screen shot shows the request made, a list of metrics as well as a historic chart of metric values: