Synthetic locations API - PUT a location

Updates an existing private synthetic location.

The request consumes an application/json payload.

Early Adopter

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

PUT	Managed https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v1/synthetic/locations/{locationId} SaaS https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/locations/{locationId}

Authentication

To execute this request, you need the Create and read synthetic monitors, locations, and nodes (ExternalSyntheticIntegration) permission assigned to your API token. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

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

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
locationId	string	The Dynatrace entity ID of the synthetic location to be updated.	path	required
body	SyntheticLocationUpdate	The JSON body of the request. Contains updated parameters of the private synthetic location or the status of the location.	body	optional

Request parameters JSON model

The SyntheticLocationUpdate object

The synthetic location update. This is a base object, the exact type depends on the value of the type field.

Element Type Description Required

type

string

Element	Type	Description	Required
type	string	Defines the actual set of fields depending on the value. See one of the following objects: `PUBLIC` -> SyntheticLocationStatusUpdate `PRIVATE` -> SyntheticPrivationLocationUpdate The type element can hold these values.	optional

Defines the actual set of fields depending on the value. See one of the following objects:

PUBLIC -> SyntheticLocationStatusUpdate
PRIVATE -> SyntheticPrivationLocationUpdate

The type element can hold these values.

optional

This is a model of the request body, showing the possible elements. It has to be adjusted for usage in an actual request. See the Example expandable section for working sample request.

      
  {
  "type": "PRIVATE",
  "name": "Linz Location",
  "latitude": 48.306351,
  "longitude": 14.287399,
  "nodes": [
    "93302281"
  ],
  "status": "ENABLED"
}

Possible values

Possible values for the type element in the SyntheticLocationUpdate object:

PRIVATE
PUBLIC

Response format

A successful request doesn't return any content.

Example

In this example, the request updates the private synthetic location from the POST request example. It changes the name of the location to Linz and adds the synthetic node with the ID of 353074222.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

The response code of 204 indicates that the update was successful.

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

curl -X PUT \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-8F419D1B53639A45 \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token abcdefjhij1234567890' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  
  -d '{
  "type": "PRIVATE",
  "name": "Linz",
  "countryCode": "AT",
  "regionCode": "AU04",
  "city": "Linz",
  "latitude": 48.306351,
  "longitude": 14.287399,
  "nodes": [
    "93302281",
    "353074222"
  ]
}
'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-8F419D1B53639A45

Request body

Download

{
  "type": "PRIVATE",
  "name": "Linz",
  "countryCode": "AT",
  "regionCode": "AU04",
  "city": "Linz",
  "latitude": 48.306351,
  "longitude": 14.287399,
  "nodes": [
    "93302281",
    "353074222"
  ]
}

Response code

204