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Settings 2.0 - Log metrics schema

Log metrics (builtin:logmonitoring.schemaless-log-metric)

With log metrics, you can use queries to create metrics from logs data for dashboarding, analysis, and custom alerting.

Note:

  • Newly-defined log metrics are available only for log data ingested after metric creation.
  • Log metrics consume DDUs.

For complete details on pricing, visit DDUs for custom metrics.

Schema IDSchema groupsScope
builtin:logmonitoring.schemaless-log-metric
  • group:log-monitoring.analysis
  • group:log-monitoring
environment
Retrieve schema via Settings API
GETManagedhttps://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/settings/schemas/builtin:logmonitoring.schemaless-log-metric
SaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/settings/schemas/builtin:logmonitoring.schemaless-log-metric
Environment ActiveGatehttps://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/settings/schemas/builtin:logmonitoring.schemaless-log-metric

Authentication

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

Parameters

PropertyLabelTypeDescriptionRequired
enabledEnabledboolean-required
keyMetric keytext-required
queryMatchertext-required
measureMetric measurementenum-required
measureAttributeAttributetext-required
dimensions-set-required