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Set custom value in synthetic and show it in dashboards

george_azzam — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:03:23 GMT

Hello,

I would like to be able to set a key-value inside a synthetic script, and then be able to see this value inside a dashboard.

This should be a custom key-value that I can calculate during the synthetic script run, set it as a (maybe global) key-value, and when opening a dashboard the up-to-date value should be shown.

Is this possible?

We work with NewRelic, and we consider moving to Dynatrace, In NewRelic we could easily do this operation by using $util.insights.set(Key, Value); and then read the value inside the dashboard.

Thanks very much.

Re: Set custom value in synthetic and show it in Dashboards

Yosi_Neuman — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:33:34 GMT

Hi @george_azzam

Check the Pre-execution script methods request.addHeader(key,value)

HTH

Yos

Re: Set custom value in synthetic and show it in Dashboards

george_azzam — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:50:11 GMT

But how can I fetch this data to a Metric inside the dashboard ?!

For example I used:

request.addHeader("ScansCount", "8765");

How can I show the "ScansCount" value/avg/sum/etc inside a metric in a dashboard?

-- EDIT --

We work on Clickpath scripts

@Yosi_Neuman

Re: Set custom value in synthetic and show it in Dashboards

Yosi_Neuman — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:55:29 GMT

For that you will need to collect the information from server side with request attribute and calculated metrics then you will be able to chart your metrics with data explorer.