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.

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curl -sL https://get.keptn.sh | KEPTN_VERSION=1.2.0 bash