Synthetic locations API v2 - GET a location

Gets parameters of the specified location.

The request produces an application/json payload.

GET	Managed	`https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/synthetic/locations/{locationId}`
	SaaS	`https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/{locationId}`
	Environment ActiveGate	`https://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/synthetic/locations/{locationId}`

Authentication

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

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
locationId	string	The Dynatrace entity ID of the required location.	path	required

Response

To find all model variations that depend on the type of the model, see JSON models.

Response codes

Code	Type	Description
200	SyntheticLocation	Success. The response contains parameters of the synthetic location.

Response body objects

The `SyntheticLocation` object

Configuration of a synthetic location.

countryCode, regionCode, city parameters are optional as they can be retrieved based on latitude and longitude of location.

The actual set of fields depends on the type of the location. Find the list of actual objects in the description of the type field or see Synthetic locations API v2 - JSON models.

Element	Type	Description
entityId	string	The Dynatrace entity ID of the location.
type	string	Defines the actual set of fields depending on the value. See one of the following objects: `PUBLIC` -> PublicSyntheticLocation `PRIVATE` -> PrivateSyntheticLocation `CLUSTER` -> PrivateSyntheticLocation The element can hold these values `CLUSTER` `PRIVATE` `PUBLIC`
name	string	The name of the location.
countryCode	string	The country code of the location. Use the alpha-2 code of the ISO 3166-2 standard, (for example, `AT` for Austria or `PL` for Poland).
regionCode	string	The region code of the location. For the USA or Canada use ISO 3166-2 state codes (without `US-` or `CA-` prefix), for example, `VA` for Virginia or `OR` for Oregon. For the rest of the world use FIPS 10-4 codes.
city	string	The city of the location.
latitude	number	The latitude of the location in `DDD.dddd` format.
longitude	number	The longitude of the location in `DDD.dddd` format.
status	string	The status of the location: `ENABLED`: The location is displayed as active in the UI. You can assign monitors to the location. `DISABLED`: The location is displayed as inactive in the UI. You can't assign monitors to the location. Monitors already assigned to the location will stay there and will be executed from the location. `HIDDEN`: The location is not displayed in the UI. You can't assign monitors to the location. You can only set location as `HIDDEN` when no monitor is assigned to it. The element can hold these values `DISABLED` `ENABLED` `HIDDEN`
geoLocationId	string	The Dynatrace GeoLocation ID of the location.

Response body JSON model

json
{
  "entityId": "string",
  "type": "CLUSTER",
  "name": "string",
  "countryCode": "string",
  "regionCode": "string",
  "city": "string",
  "latitude": 1,
  "longitude": 1,
  "status": "DISABLED",
  "geoLocationId": "string"
}

Example - public location

In this example, the request gets the details of the Amazon US East (N. Virginia) public location, which has the ID of SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064.

Curl

bash
curl -X GET \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064 \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

plaintext
https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064

Response body

json
{
  "entityId": "SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064",
  "type": "PUBLIC",
  "name": "Gdańsk",
  "countryCode": "PL",
  "regionCode": "EU",
  "city": "Gdańsk",
  "latitude": 54.399078,
  "longitude": 18.576557,
  "status": "ENABLED",
  "cloudPlatform": "OTHER",
  "ips": [
    "120.157.221.247",
    "172.158.6.93",
    "197.136.70.30",
    "227.53.205.237",
    "131.123.197.12"
  ],
  "stage": "GA",
  "browserType": "Chrome",
  "browserVersion": "83.0.4103.61",
  "capabilities": [
    "BROWSER",
    "HTTP"
  ],
  "geoLocationId": "GEOLOCATION-0A41430434C388A9"
}

Response code

200

Example - private location

In this example, the request gets the details of the Linz HTTP private location, which has the ID of SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5.

Curl

bash
curl -X GET \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5 \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

plaintext
https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5

Response body

json
{
  "entityId": "SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5",
  "type": "PRIVATE",
  "name": "Linz HTTP",
  "countryCode": "AT",
  "regionCode": "04",
  "city": "Linz",
  "latitude": 48.306351,
  "longitude": 14.287399,
  "status": "ENABLED",
  "nodes": [
    "137829320"
  ],
  "availabilityLocationOutage": false,
  "availabilityNodeOutage": false,
  "locationNodeOutageDelayInMillis": 3000,
  "geoLocationId": "GEOLOCATION-427705B3488A4C45"
}

Response code

200

Synthetic locations API v2 - GET a location

Authentication

Parameters

Response

Response codes

Response body objects

The SyntheticLocation object

Response body JSON model

Example - public location

Curl

Request URL

Response body

Response code

Example - private location

Curl

Request URL

Response body

Response code

The `SyntheticLocation` object