Metrics API - GET metric descriptor

Gets the parameters of the specified metric.

The request produces one of the following types of payload, depending on the value of the the Accept request header:

• application/json
• text/csv; header=present—a CSV table with header row
• text/csv; header=absent—a CSV table without header row

If no Accept header is provided with the request, an application/json payload is returned.

Authentication

To execute this request, you need the Access problem and event feed, metrics, and topology (DataExport) permission assigned to your API token. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Authentication.

Parameters

Response format

    
{
  "metricId": "builtin:host.cpu.user:merge(0):max:fold",
  "displayName": "CPU user",
  "description": "Percentage of user-space CPU time currently utilized, per host.\n",
  "unit": "Percent",
  "aggregationTypes": [
    "auto",
    "avg",
    "max",
    "min"
  ],
  "transformations": [
    "fold"
  ],
  "defaultAggregation": {
    "type": "avg"
  },
  "dimensionDefinitions": [
    {
      "name": "primary",
      "type": "ENTITY"
    }
  ],
  "entityType": [
    "HOST"
  ]
}
    
  

Possible values

Example

In this example, the request queries the parameters of three metrics: builtin:host.cpu.idle, builtin:host.cpu.usage, and builtin:host.disk.avail.

The builtin:host.cpu.idle and builtin:host.cpu.usage metrics have the same parent and their selector is combined into builtin:host.cpu.(idle,usage).

The response is in application/json format.

Curl

curl -L -X GET 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/builtin:host.disk.avail' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token abcdefjhij1234567890' \
-H 'Accept: application/json'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/builtin:host.disk.avail

Response body

{
  "metricId": "builtin:host.disk.avail",
  "displayName": "Disk available",
  "description": "",
  "unit": "Byte",
  "entityType": [
    "HOST"
  ],
  "aggregationTypes": [
    "auto",
    "avg",
    "max",
    "min"
  ],
  "transformations": [
    "filter",
    "fold",
    "merge",
    "names",
    "parents"
  ],
  "defaultAggregation": {
    "type": "avg"
  },
  "dimensionDefinitions": [
    {
      "key": "dt.entity.host",
      "name": "Host",
      "index": 0,
      "type": "ENTITY"
    },
    {
      "key": "dt.entity.disk",
      "name": "Disk",
      "index": 1,
      "type": "ENTITY"
    }
  ]
}

The CSV table with header row looks like this. To obtain it, change the Accept header to text/csv; header=present.

metricId,displayName,description,unit,entityType,aggregationTypes,transformations,defaultAggregation,dimensionDefinitions
builtin:host.cpu.usage,CPU usage %,Percentage of CPU time currently utilized.,Percent,[HOST],"[auto, avg, max, min]","[filter, fold, merge, names, parents]",avg,[Host:ENTITY]

Response code

200