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.
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 plain/text payload. The payload is limited to 1,000 lines.
| POST |
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Authentication
To execute this request, you need the Ingest metrics (metrics.ingest) permission assigned to your API token. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.
Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | In | Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| body |
Data points, provided in the line protocol. Each line represents a single data point. |
body | optional |
Response
Response codes
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 202 | The provided metric data points are accepted and will be processed in the background. |
| 400 | Some data points are invalid. Valid data points are accepted and will be processed in the background. |
Response body
A successful request doesn't return any content.
Example
With this curl command, you'll ingest the cpu.temperature metric assigned to the HOST-06F288EE2A930951 dimension.
curl -L -X POST 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/ingest' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token abcdefjhij1234567890' \
-H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
--data-raw 'cpu.temperature,dt.entity.host=HOST-06F288EE2A930951,cpu=1 55'