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Synthetic locations API - POST a location

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Creates a new private Synthetic location. For more details about synthetic location creation, see Create a private Synthetic location.

The request consumes and produces an application/json payload.

POSTManaged https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v1/synthetic/locations
SaaS https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/locations
Environment ActiveGate https://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v1/synthetic/locations

Authentication

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

Parameter

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

ParameterTypeDescriptionInRequired
bodySyntheticLocation

The JSON body of the request. Contains parameters of the new private synthetic location.

bodyoptional

Request body objects

The RequestBody object

ElementTypeDescription
nodesstring[]

A list of synthetic nodes belonging to the location.

You can retrieve the list of available nodes with the GET all nodes call.

Can be null.

availabilityLocationOutageboolean

The alerting of location outage is enabled (true) or disabled (false).

Can be null.

availabilityNodeOutageboolean

The alerting of node outage is enabled (true) or disabled (false).

If enabled, the outage of any node in the location triggers an alert.

Can be null.

locationNodeOutageDelayInMinutesinteger

Alert if the location or node outage lasts longer than X minutes.

Only applicable when availabilityLocationOutage or availabilityNodeOutage is set to true.

Can be null.

availabilityNotificationsEnabledboolean

The notifications of location and node outage is enabled (true) or disabled (false).

Can be null.

autoUpdateChromiumboolean

Auto upgrade of Chromium is enabled (true) or disabled (false).

Can be null.

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.

ElementTypeDescription
entityIdstring

The Dynatrace entity ID of the location.

typestring

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
namestring

The name of the location.

countryCodestring

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).

Can be null.

regionCodestring

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.

Can be null.

citystring

The city of the location.

Can be null.

latitudenumber

The latitude of the location in DDD.dddd format.

longitudenumber

The longitude of the location in DDD.dddd format.

statusstring

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

Can be null.

Request body JSON model

This is a model of the request body, showing the possible elements. It has to be adjusted for usage in an actual request.

json
{
  "nodes": [
    "string"
  ],
  "availabilityLocationOutage": true,
  "availabilityNodeOutage": true,
  "locationNodeOutageDelayInMinutes": 1,
  "availabilityNotificationsEnabled": true,
  "autoUpdateChromium": true
}

Response

Response codes

CodeTypeDescription
200EntityIdDto

Success

Response body objects

The EntityIdDto object

A DTO for entity ID.

ElementTypeDescription
entityIdstring

Entity ID to be transferred

Response body JSON model

json
{
  "entityId": "string"
}

Example

In this example, the request creates a new private Synthetic location. This location lies in Linz, Austria. It uses the synthetic node with the ID of 93302281.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

You can download or copy the example request body to try it out on your own. Be sure to replace the list of nodes with nodes available in your environment.

Curl

shell
curl -X POST \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/locations \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "type": "PRIVATE",
  "name": "REST example - Linz",
  "countryCode": "AT",
  "regionCode": "AU04",
  "city": "Linz",
  "latitude": 48.306351,
  "longitude": 14.287399,
  "nodes": [
    "93302281"
  ]
}
'

Request URL

plaintext
https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/locations

Request body

json
{
  "type": "PRIVATE",
  "name": "REST example - Linz",
  "countryCode": "AT",
  "regionCode": "AU04",
  "city": "Linz",
  "latitude": 48.306351,
  "longitude": 14.287399,
  "nodes": ["93302281"]
}

Response body

json
{
  "entityId": "SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-8F419D1B53639A45"
}

Response code

200

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