Metrics API - POST ingest data points

Pushes custom data points to Dynatrace.

Provided data points must follow the Metrics ingestion protocol. You don't have to register the metric first. After Dynatrace has ingested and processed the data, you can use it just like any other metrics in Dynatrace, such as in charts or metric events. You can also provide metadata for the ingested metric via the Settings API.

Prefer to ingest metrics right on the host?

You can also push the data points directly from a OneAgent-monitored host to the Extensions Execution Controller (EEC) OneAgent module over a secure channel using the local http://localhost:<port>/metrics/ingest endpoint, which doesn't require token authentication. The default port is 14499. Using this method, the Dynatrace reserved dt.entity.host=<host-ID> dimension is added to each metric.

You can use the dimension dt.process.id=<PID> to add a process group identifier dimension. When the process group identifier is provided, dt.entity.process_group_instance dimension will be added to a given metric. It works on OneAgent metrics ingest only via dynatrace_ingest API.

For more information, see OneAgent metric API.

To view datapoints of the ingested metric, you can use:

Data explorer
GET metric data points request of the Metric v2 API.

The request consumes a text/plain payload. The payload is limited to 1 MB.

POST	Managed	`https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/metrics/ingest`
	SaaS	`https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/ingest`
	Environment ActiveGate	`https://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/metrics/ingest`

Authentication

To execute this request, you need an access token with Ingest metrics (metrics.ingest) scope. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
body	string	Data points, provided in the line protocol. Each line represents a single data point.	body	required

Request body objects

The `RequestBody` object

The object doesn't provide any parameters.

Response

Response codes

Code	Type	Description
202	ValidationResponse	The provided metric data points are accepted and will be processed in the background.
400	ValidationResponse	Some data points are invalid. Valid data points are accepted and will be processed in the background.

Example

With this curl command, you'll ingest the cpu.temperature metric assigned to the HOST-06F288EE2A930951 dimension.

bash
curl -L -X POST 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/ingest' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \
-H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
--data-raw 'cpu.temperature,dt.entity.host=HOST-06F288EE2A930951,cpu=1 55'

Metrics API - POST ingest data points

Authentication

Parameters

Request body objects

The RequestBody object

Response

Response codes

Example

The `RequestBody` object