topic Re: Custom Event ingestion from external script in Open Q&A

Custom Event ingestion from external script

JobyJob — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:08:37 GMT

How can I generate a custom event from a shell script to be ingested into Dynatrace. This event is after a shell script invoked by a Jenkins job found that an API integration from one of the nodes has broken. This is part of proactive monitoring of the system integration, so as to minimize customer impact.

Re: Custom Event ingestion from external script

lubrman — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 05:42:06 GMT

Hi @JobyJob

Yes, there are several ways to directly create a custom alert using the APIs provided by Dynatrace when a script fails.

POST https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/events

Alternatively, if your script sends logs, you can forward those logs to Dynatrace and then trigger an alert based on them.
POST https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/logs/ingest

Re: Custom Event ingestion from external script

AntonPineiro — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:26:24 GMT

Hi,

You can use Metric scripting integration also.

Best regards

Re: Custom Event ingestion from external script

Julius_Loman — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:23:13 GMT

@lubrman @JobyJob this is actually the comprehensive docs https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/extend-events
One should not forget the option to ingest the event locally on a host with OneAgent. It does not need any API token in such case.