topic Re: Migrating 3rd Party Synthetics to Grail for Dashboarding in Dashboarding

Migrating 3rd Party Synthetics to Grail for Dashboarding

wmisenhe — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:34:18 GMT

Hello

I have a 3rd party synthetic classic dashboard that I am trying to get to reflect in the new dashboard version. In the migration walkthrough there are some that are not migrated yet. How can I use the SDK to convert something like:

builtin:synthetic.external.availability.location.total:splitBy("dt.entity.external_synthetic_test"):sort(value(auto,ascending)):limit(100)

or
builtin:synthetic.external.errorDetails:splitBy("dt.entity.external_synthetic_test_step","dt.entity.external_synthetic_test","Error Code"):sort(value(auto,descending)):limit(100)

into the new dashboards? I am new to using the SDK for this use case. Thank you in advance!

Re: Migrating 3rd Party Synthetics to Grail for Dashboarding

marco_irmer — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:26:36 GMT

You can recreate any panels that didn't convert automatically using DQL with the timeseries command. In the case of third party synthetics, I believe the corresponding Grail metric is 'dt.synthetic.third_party.availability'. I hope this helps.

Re: Migrating 3rd Party Synthetics to Grail for Dashboarding

wmisenhe — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:04:22 GMT

dt.synthetic.third_party.availability does not seem to reflect the information in a consumable way. Unless there is a way to deliver it to see past 30 min availability for each 3rd party synthetic. It also just shows the id and not the name. I assume it's in some sort of an array that needs to be expanded then plain names expanded, correct?

Also the step errors? Unless I am missing something, third party Error details (from the second query) is not in grail either. This documentation is why I assumed it wasn't in there: Built-in Metrics on Grail — Dynatrace Docs

I guess what I am really asking is how to get these graphics into the new Dt Dashboard? If that makes sense. If builtin:synthetic.external.errorDetails hasnt been converted to grail yet. Or if we have others that we'd like to see and aren't in there. How do we go about doing that?

Re: Migrating 3rd Party Synthetics to Grail for Dashboarding

wmisenhe — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:29:04 GMT

@MaciejNeumann Im not sure the answer above is the solution, can you unmark it as such? Thank you

Re: Migrating 3rd Party Synthetics to Grail for Dashboarding

wmisenhe — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:56:42 GMT

Going into a metrics tile and using that we can see the split by. This has worked for us

Re: Migrating 3rd Party Synthetics to Grail for Dashboarding

IzabelaRokita — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:34:34 GMT

@wmisenhe As you requested, I've unmarked the above answer as the solution 🙂
Also, thank you so much for returning with the correct answer and marking it as the solution.
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