https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/Historical-data-in-Metric-events/m-p/199827#M3256 <P>Hi,</P><P>I'm trying to create an alert (metric event) based on the average value of a builtin metric (eg: builtin:containers.cpu.usageMilliCores) in last X days using metric selector.</P><P>How can time be passed into metric selector?</P><P>See there is an equivalent of <STRONG>&amp;from=now-5m </STRONG>in metric selector like in the API call below.</P><P><SPAN><A href="https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/query?metricSelector=builtin:host.cpu.(usage,idle):filter(or(eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0990886B7D39FE29%22),eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0956C3557E9109C1%22)))&amp;from=now-5m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/query?metricSelector=builtin:host.cpu.(usage,idle):filter(or(eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0990886B7D39FE29%22),eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0956C3557E9109C1%22)))&amp;from=now-5m</A>'</SPAN></P> Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:18:15 GMT hv 2022-12-05T22:18:15Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/Historical-data-in-Metric-events/m-p/199827#M3256 <P>Hi,</P><P>I'm trying to create an alert (metric event) based on the average value of a builtin metric (eg: builtin:containers.cpu.usageMilliCores) in last X days using metric selector.</P><P>How can time be passed into metric selector?</P><P>See there is an equivalent of <STRONG>&amp;from=now-5m </STRONG>in metric selector like in the API call below.</P><P><SPAN><A href="https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/query?metricSelector=builtin:host.cpu.(usage,idle):filter(or(eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0990886B7D39FE29%22),eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0956C3557E9109C1%22)))&amp;from=now-5m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/query?metricSelector=builtin:host.cpu.(usage,idle):filter(or(eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0990886B7D39FE29%22),eq(%22dt.entity.host%22,%22HOST-0956C3557E9109C1%22)))&amp;from=now-5m</A>'</SPAN></P> Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:18:15 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/Historical-data-in-Metric-events/m-p/199827#M3256 hv 2022-12-05T22:18:15Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/Historical-data-in-Metric-events/m-p/200018#M3260 <P>We ended up using a combination of&nbsp;<SPAN><STRONG>api/v2/metrics</STRONG> and<STRONG>&nbsp;</STRONG></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN>/api/v2/events/ingest </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN>to check the data and alert.</SPAN></P> Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:18:54 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/Historical-data-in-Metric-events/m-p/200018#M3260 hv 2022-12-07T17:18:54Z