Third-party synthetic API - POST third-party monitors to Dynatrace

Pushes third-party synthetic monitors, locations, and monitor execution results to Dynatrace.

The request consumes an application/json payload.

Parameters

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{
  "locations": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "ip": "string",
      "name": "string"
    }
  ],
  "messageTimestamp": 1,
  "syntheticEngineIconUrl": "string",
  "syntheticEngineName": "string",
  "testResults": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "locationResults": [
        {
          "id": "string",
          "responseTimeMillis": 1,
          "startTimestamp": 1,
          "stepResults": [
            {
              "error": {
                "code": 1,
                "message": "string"
              },
              "id": 1,
              "responseTimeMillis": 1,
              "startTimestamp": 1
            }
          ],
          "success": true,
          "successRate": 1
        }
      ],
      "totalStepCount": 1
    }
  ],
  "tests": [
    {
      "deleted": true,
      "description": "string",
      "drilldownLink": "string",
      "editLink": "string",
      "enabled": true,
      "expirationTimestamp": 1,
      "id": "string",
      "locations": [
        {
          "enabled": true,
          "id": "string"
        }
      ],
      "noDataTimeout": 1,
      "scheduleIntervalInSeconds": 1,
      "steps": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "title": "string"
        }
      ],
      "testSetup": "string",
      "title": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Response

Example

In this example, the request pushes the following data from third-party synthetic engine My third-party synthetic to Dynatrace:

• Three locations: Linz1, Linz2, and Linz3.
• Two monitors: example of synthetic monitor - 1 and example of synthetic monitor - 2, each containing three steps and running from two locations.
• One result per step, per location, for each monitor.

Monitors have the following parameters:

The example of synthetic monitor - 1 monitor has the following response times in milliseconds:

The example of synthetic monitor - 2 monitor has the following response times in milliseconds:

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

Since the request body is lengthy, it is truncated in this example Curl section. See the full body in the Request body section. You can download the request body JSON to perform a sample request in your environment. Be sure to replace the timestamps with recent ones or the results will be too old.

Curl

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curl -X POST \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/ext/tests \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ <truncated - see the Request body section >}'

Request URL

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https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/synthetic/ext/tests

Request body

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{
  "syntheticEngineName": "My third-party synthetic",
  "syntheticEngineIconUrl": "https://static.thenounproject.com/png/1745-200.png",
  "messageTimestamp": 1543572265528,
  "locations": [
    {
      "id": "Linz1",
      "ip": "127.0.0.1",
      "name": "Linz1"
    },
    {
      "id": "Linz2",
      "ip": "127.0.0.2",
      "name": "Linz2"
    },
    {
      "id": "Linz3",
      "ip": "127.0.0.3",
      "name": "Linz3"
    }
  ],
  "tests": [
    {
      "id": "3rdPartySyntheticMonitor1",
      "title": "example of synthetic monitor - 1",
      "scheduleIntervalInSeconds": 300,
      "locations": [
        {
          "id": "Linz1"
        },
        {
          "id": "Linz2"
        }
      ],
      "steps": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "title": "Step1-1"
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "title": "Step1-2"
        },
        {
          "id": 3,
          "title": "Step1-3"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "3rdPartySyntheticMonitor2",
      "title": "example of synthetic monitor - 2",
      "scheduleIntervalInSeconds": 300,
      "locations": [
        {
          "id": "Linz2"
        },
        {
          "id": "Linz3"
        }
      ],
      "steps": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "title": "Step2-1"
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "title": "Step2-2"
        },
        {
          "id": 3,
          "title": "Step2-3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "testResults": [
    {
      "id": "3rdPartySyntheticMonitor1",
      "totalStepCount": 3,
      "locationResults": [
        {
          "id": "Linz1",
          "startTimestamp": 1543572262538,
          "success": true,
          "stepResults": [
            {
              "id": 1,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262538,
              "responseTimeMillis": 7790
            },
            {
              "id": 2,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262538,
              "responseTimeMillis": 2073
            },
            {
              "id": 3,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262538,
              "responseTimeMillis": 8650
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "Linz2",
          "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
          "success": true,
          "stepResults": [
            {
              "id": 1,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
              "responseTimeMillis": 2075
            },
            {
              "id": 2,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
              "responseTimeMillis": 4079
            },
            {
              "id": 3,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
              "responseTimeMillis": 3937
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "3rdPartySyntheticMonitor2",
      "totalStepCount": 3,
      "locationResults": [
        {
          "id": "Linz2",
          "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
          "success": true,
          "stepResults": [
            {
              "id": 1,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
              "responseTimeMillis": 2200
            },
            {
              "id": 2,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
              "responseTimeMillis": 6903
            },
            {
              "id": 3,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262548,
              "responseTimeMillis": 4821
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "Linz3",
          "startTimestamp": 1543572262558,
          "success": true,
          "stepResults": [
            {
              "id": 1,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262558,
              "responseTimeMillis": 9123
            },
            {
              "id": 2,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262558,
              "responseTimeMillis": 9722
            },
            {
              "id": 3,
              "startTimestamp": 1543572262558,
              "responseTimeMillis": 1717
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Response code

204

Result

Highlight shows parameters, submitted in the request.