Synthetic locations API v2 - GET a location

Gets parameters of the specified location.

The request produces an application/json payload.

Early Adopter

This request is an Early Adopter release and may be changed in non-compatible way.

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}

Authentication

To execute this request, you need the Read synthetic locations (syntheticLocations.read) permission assigned to your API token. 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	Description
200	Success. The response contains parameters of the synthetic location.

Response body

Response parameters JSON model

The SyntheticLocation object

Configuration of a synthetic location.

The actual set of fields depends on the type of the location.

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.
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

    
{
  "entityId": "string",
  "type": "CLUSTER",
  "name": "string",
  "city": "string",
  "latitude": "number",
  "longitude": "number",
  "status": "DISABLED"
}

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

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

Request URL

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

Response body

{
  "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

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

Request URL

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

Response body

{
  "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