Reports API - POST subscribe to a report

Subscribes the specified users to the specified report. All existing subscriptions remain intact.

The request consumes and produces an application/json payload.

Early Adopter

This request is an Early Adopter release and may be changed in non-compatible way.

POST	Managed https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/config/v1/reports/{id}/subscribe SaaS https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/reports/{id}/subscribe

Authentication

To execute this request, you need the Write configuration (WriteConfig) permission assigned to your API token. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
id	string	The ID of the report to subscribe to.	path	required
body	ReportSubscriptions	The JSON body of the request. Contains a list of new subscribers.	body	optional

Request parameters JSON model

The ReportSubscriptions object

Configuration of a report subscription.

Element	Type	Description	Required
schedule	string	The schedule of the subscription. Weekly subscribers receive the report every Monday at midnight. Monthly subscribers receive the report on the first Monday of the month at midnight. The schedule element can hold these values.	required
recipients	string[]	A list of the recipients. You can specify email addresses or Dynatrace user IDs here.	required

Element

Type

Description

Required

schedule

string

The schedule of the subscription.

Weekly subscribers receive the report every Monday at midnight.
Monthly subscribers receive the report on the first Monday of the month at midnight.

The schedule element can hold these values.

required

recipients

string[]

A list of the recipients.

You can specify email addresses or Dynatrace user IDs here.

required

This is a model of the request body, showing the possible elements. It has to be adjusted for usage in an actual request. See the Example expandable section for working sample request.

      
  {
  "schedule": "WEEK",
  "recipients": [
    "demo@email.com",
    "demo2@email.com"
  ]
}

Possible values

Possible values for the schedule element in the ReportSubscriptions object:

MONTH
WEEK

Response format

Response parameters JSON model

The EntityShortRepresentation object

The short representation of a Dynatrace entity.

Element	Type	Description
id	string	The ID of the Dynatrace entity.
name	string	The name of the Dynatrace entity.
description	string	A short description of the Dynatrace entity.

    
{
  "id": "6a98d7bc-abb9-44f8-ae6a-73e68e71812a",
  "name": "Dynatrace entity",
  "description": "Dynatrace entity for the REST API example\n"
}

Example

In this example, the request updates the report from the POST request example. It adds the weekly subscriptions for the Dynatrace user ryan.white.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

Curl

curl -X POST \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/reports/f78f78f5-00bd-4cc1-9e8b-ecfd1e379a73/subscribe \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \  
  -H 'Authorization: Api-token abcdefjhij1234567890' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "schedule": "WEEK",
    "recipients": [
      "ryan.white"
    ]
  }
'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/reports/f78f78f5-00bd-4cc1-9e8b-ecfd1e379a73/subscribe

Request body

{
  "schedule": "WEEK",
  "recipients": [
    "ryan.white"
  ]
}

Response body

{
  "id": "f78f78f5-00bd-4cc1-9e8b-ecfd1e379a73"
}

Response code

201