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conditional naming API - GET all conditional naming rules

Lists all conditional naming rules available in your Dynatrace environment.

The request produces an application/json payload.

GETManagedDynatrace for Governmenthttps://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/config/v1/conditionalNaming/{type}
SaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/conditionalNaming/{type}
Environment ActiveGatehttps://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/config/v1/conditionalNaming/{type}

Authentication

To execute this request, you need an access token with ReadConfig scope.

To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionInRequired
typestring

The type of the rule, defined by the type of Dynatrace entities to which the rule applies.

The element can hold these values
  • processGroup
  • host
  • service
pathrequired

Response

The request returns the list of short representations of conditional naming rules—just ID, name, and description.

Response codes

CodeTypeDescription
200StubList

Success

Response body objects

The StubList object

An ordered list of short representations of Dynatrace entities.

ElementTypeDescription
valuesEntityShortRepresentation[]

An ordered list of short representations of Dynatrace entities.

The EntityShortRepresentation object

The short representation of a Dynatrace entity.

ElementTypeDescription
idstring

The ID of the Dynatrace entity.

namestring

The name of the Dynatrace entity.

descriptionstring

A short description of the Dynatrace entity.

Response body JSON model

json
{ "values": [ { "id": "6a98d7bc-abb9-44f8-ae6a-73e68e71812a", "name": "Dynatrace entity 1", "description": "Dynatrace entity 1 for the REST API example" }, { "id": "ee70f7d3-9a4e-4f5f-94d2-c9d6156f1618", "name": "Dynatrace entity 2" }, { "id": "8cdabe77-9e1a-4be8-b3df-269dd6fa9d7f" } ] }
Related topics
  • Process group naming

    Ways to customize process-group naming