topic Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API in Dynatrace API

How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

sjammula — Mon, 24 May 2021 14:44:35 GMT

We are looking for some automation from our end to disable/enabling the monitoring of the hosts through REST API. We see the API which provides the list of hosts. But wondering any API to update enable/disable monitoring of particular HOST.

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

Julius_Loman — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:02:43 GMT

AFAIK it's not possible at this time using the public API. Maintenance windows are on the roadmap and should be available very soon. It believe enabling/disabling host monitoring using API will be included with release of maintenance windows.

Or if you have time & courage, you could try play with the private REST API (undocumented) - the one UI is using. It does not look that complicated, you just need to figure out how to send valid headers.

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

sjammula — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:04:25 GMT

Thanks for the response.

Can you provide details of private REST API (undocumented) , if you have that handy.

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

Julius_Loman — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:39:15 GMT

I don't have that, sorry.

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

anders_lundin3 — Mon, 29 May 2023 13:41:06 GMT

I have the need to do the same. I can find some information using the REST API with /entity/infrastructure/hosts/{meIdentifier} but the only candidate for disable monitoring would be "monitoringMode": but I guess that is only to set/unset infrastructure only monitoring mode.

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

Yosi_Neuman — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 20:08:51 GMT

Hi guys,

Any news here? is this feature is on the roadmap?
Yos

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

ksundararajan — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:42:43 GMT

Do we have any doc for this, asking after 2 years, hope someone found out already.

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

rswarnka — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:14:07 GMT

Is this implemented yet? I have 20+ hosts with specific tags and I want to disable monitoring for these hosts via API?

Re: How to enable/disable the monitoring on particular Host through REST API

ben_wrightson — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:05:18 GMT

That functionality will be available very soon: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/manage-thousands-of-hosts-with-the-new-oneagent-on-a-host-rest-api-preview/