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Cloud Automation requirements

To get started with Cloud Automation, the following requirements need to be met.

Request a Cloud Automation instance

To access the Cloud Automation bridge, you need access to a Cloud Automation instance. To request a Cloud Automation instance, contact a Dynatrace product expert via live chat within your Dynatrace environment.

Dynatrace requirements

  • Make sure the API endpoint of your Dynatrace environment is accessible from the internet.

  • Create an API token by using the template named "Cloud Automation". The generated token will have the following permissions:

    API v1
    • Access problem and event feed, metrics, and topology
    • Create and read synthetic monitors, locations, and nodes
    • Read configuration
    • Write configuration
    • Capture request data
    • Data ingest, e.g.: metrics and events
    API v2
    • Read metrics
    • Ingest metrics
    • Read entities
    • Read problems
    • Write problems
    • Read SLO

CLI requirements

  • Download the Keptn CLI.
  1. Run the command below to download and install the Keptn CLI.
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curl -sL https://get.keptn.sh | KEPTN_VERSION=1.2.0 bash
  1. Download the binary file from GitHub.
  2. Add the binary to your PATH.