topic Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS in Dynatrace API

Push third party metrics to Dynatrace SaaS

VenkataSainath — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:03:36 GMT

Hi All,

We have one 3rd party tool which is tool have REST API capability, Now we want push metrics to Dynatrace using the 3rd party tool REST API.

Is there any way we can Do it.

I saw we have Metric ingestion methodes using Dynatrace API https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/metric-ingestion , But this case we have API from 3rd party tool.

Please provide any suggestions.

Regards,

Venkat

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

Julius_Loman — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 06:17:56 GMT

Hello @VenkataSainath ,

you have several options:

write a script/daemon fetching the source metrics and push the metrics using Dynatrace REST API
create an ActiveGate extension to pull the metrics and use the Extensions SDK to push them to Dynatrace

It depends on the particular use case. Pulling from REST API is not (yet) available, but it's on the roadmap as far as I know.

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

VenkataSainath — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 06:27:29 GMT

Hi @Julius_Loman

Thanks you so much for inputs.

And one more option I have here, We have installed oneagent in the target server and here we need Capture more metrics which was not captured By one agent.

In the Case which method Metric ingestion can be used , If any examples of available Please suggest us.

and I went through the https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/metric-ingestion#anchor_local, But still not yet clear.

If you can provide any examples that would be great

Regards,

Venkat

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

Julius_Loman — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 07:38:24 GMT

Yes, for metric ingestion you can also use the local port on OneAgent (typically localhost:14499) or use the oneagent ingest tool available with oneagent. The advantage here is, that you don't need any authorization (Api-Tokens) for sending metrics to Dynatrace. It's probably the best way to ingest the metrics in your case.

You can also create a OneAgent extension and send metrics using the extensions (that's similar to the ActiveGate extension), but the OneAgent extension can bind metrics only to the host itself.

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

VenkataSainath — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:35:14 GMT

@Julius_Loman Thanks For your inputs, Could you please provide if any examples are available.

Regards,

Venkat

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

AntonioSousa — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:01:54 GMT

One advantage of using ingestion through OneAgent is that you have a free-tier of metrics, which will not exist if you do it through the API:
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/metric-cost-calculation#included-metrics-per-host-unit

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

Mike_L — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:55:29 GMT

Hi,

That's actually not an advantage. If you use the metric ingest and assign the metric to a host/process it will first use the free tier metrics.

Mike

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

VenkataSainath — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 05:50:36 GMT

Hi @Julius_Loman ,

Thanks for your information, Today I went Through the OneAgent metric API Document, Once I have Prepared Curl Command , How i need schedule the Command and here the content type is text \Plain.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/local-api#example

Could you please provide your inputs here .

Regards,

Venkat

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

Julius_Loman — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 06:09:57 GMT

@VenkataSainath you can one the dynatrace_ingest instead of curl.

For scheduling - it's up to you... use infinite loop in script, cron scheduler, systemd unit (if you are on Linux).

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

VenkataSainath — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:20:38 GMT

Hi All,

Thanks for updates,

As per Metrics V2 in Documentation we can able push the Data only in "text" format, In our case , the data which we need to push the metrics to Dynatrace available in Json Format.

Any suggestions for pushing the Data in json format

Venkat

Re: How to push 3rd Party Metrics to Dynatrace SAAS

Julius_Loman — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:05:42 GMT

How does your JSON format look like? You can use utils such as jq or any scripting language to transform the metrics to the line protocol accepted by Dynatrace. Actually, it's very similar to the InfluxDB line protocol.