Reading action duration with Rest-API v2 metric

joerg_witzgall — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:30:33 GMT

Strange values when querying the builtin:apps.other.uaDuration.osAndVersion API metric:

I would like to read the action duration of custom applications using API-V2 from Dynatrace Managed and do not understand the values that I get back: {"dimensions": ["CUSTOM_APPLICATION-3D99AB58F3534925"], "timestamps": [1606147020000], "values": [3265197.173287671]}.

What does the value 3265197.173287671 mean?

According to the API documentation, this should be the average action duration in milliseconds.

The action duration of the application is shown correctly in the Dynatrace Managed GUI as between 1.5-2 seconds.

The API URL is: https://dynatrace.kubus-it.de/e/edc50b2a-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx/api/v2/metrics/query?api-token=xxxx&metricSelector=builtin%3Aapps.other. uaDuration.osAndVersion: merge (1,2) & entitySelector = type% 28CUSTOM_APPLICATION% 29 & resolution = INF & from = ...

Re: Reading action duration with Rest-API v2 metric

robert_schausbe — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:25:11 GMT

Hi,
the metric´s base unit is actually defined in microseconds - you can use the metric descriptor API to identify the unit (/api/v2/metrics/builtin:apps.other.uaDuration.osAndVersion)

Hope this helps.

Best,Robert

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Reading action duration with Rest-API v2 metric

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