topic Re: We would like to shorten Dynatrace REST API in Dynatrace API

We would like to shorten Dynatrace REST API

ntanaka — Tue, 25 May 2021 10:54:22 GMT

Hi,

Our customer use Dynatrace Metric API to send metric to ServiceNow.
However, on ServiceNow, REST endpoint record is limited less than 200 characters long.
We are sometimes in trouble because REST endpoint is truncated like this.

e.g.) The following API is 204 characters long, so 4 characters are truncated.

https://xx.xx.x.xx/e/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/api/v2/metrics/query?metricSelector=builtin:service.response.time&resolution=h&from=now-24h&entitySelector=type(SERVICE),entityName(servicenameA2)

Do you have any idea to shorten REST endpoint?
We wish we could shorten environment id...

Best Regards
Natsumi Tanaka

Re: We would like to shorten Dynatrace REST API

skrystosik — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 07:00:59 GMT

It's not possible to shorten it. Only Idea I have is to create nginx/apache between SN and DT and there you can try use it as kind of proxy that may translate larger uris into shorter ones?

https://opensource.com/article/18/7/apache-url-shortener -> example

Sebastian

Re: We would like to shorten Dynatrace REST API

ntanaka — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:47:20 GMT

Hi, Sebastian, Thank you for your comment. Nice idea! I will ask our customer to use it!