topic Parse an API call results and alert if the value is other than "true" in Open Q&A

Parse an API call results and alert if the value is other than "true"

runatyr — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:04:31 GMT

Hello:

There is a server that I can make a call to using API that returns that status of that Applications agents.

The format of the call is:

<server>:8088/ae/api/v1/<client>/system/agents

I am then prompted for username and password.

The results are in JSON format

(The data in example was scrubbed except for the part in red I need to alert on.)

{
"data" : [ {
"active" : true,
"data1" : "value1",
"data2" : "value2",
"data3" : "value3",
"data4" : value4,
"data5" : "value5",
"data6" : "value6",
"data7" : "value7",
"data8" : value8,
"data9" : "value9",
"data10" : value10,
"data11" : value11
} ],
"hasmore" : false
}

My question are as follows:

How do I set up something in Dynatrace to go out and do a query, parse the results, and the alert on some of the fields if I get a value other than true?

Is synthetic transaction able to do all of that (parse the results and trigger on certain values)?

Would it be easier to do in with Dynatrace and something such as PowerShell? Such as a PowerShell script incorporated with Dyantrace?

How is that done?

Please advise and thank you for your insight on this matter 🙂

Thanks,

-C

Re: Best way to have Dynatrace parse an API call results

AntonPineiro — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:58:46 GMT

Hi,

Looks like a useCase to be used in Synthetics, you can parse a JSON and get values you want. You have an example in other post

You can ingest values from scripts using OneAgent integration or API but I would choose Synthetics for this scenario.

Best regards

Re: Parse an API call results and alert if the value is other than "true"

paolo_fumanelli — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:23:08 GMT

Hi, I see two possible solutions for that:

Set up a synthetic test that calls the endpoint and check the actual result
build an active gate extension that polls the endpoint, parses it and writes a custom metric or creates a custom device in which storing it

Of course solution 1 is faster, solution 2 is better if we have several endpoints to be polled and you want to manage them together.