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Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

henk_stobbe — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:13:24 GMT

Hello,

Who can help me here? I want to send Beats/Logstash metrics to /api/v2/metrics/ingest

I can find a lot about logs and openpipeline but who knows how this is accomplished.

Maybe I am missing something or am I the first (-;

@Cbeecher

KR Henk

Re: Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

t_pawlak — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:20:40 GMT

Hi,

The simplest approach is to use the Dynatrace Logstash output plugin.

It should work

Re: Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

t_pawlak — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:21:10 GMT

https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/logstash/plugins/plugins-outputs-dynatrace
It was built exactly for this use case — it sends Logstash events directly to the Dynatrace Log Ingest API v2 (/api/v2/logs/ingest), so you don’t need to manually build HTTP requests or mappings.

Re: Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

t_pawlak — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:23:09 GMT

Just install plugin on logstash instance:

bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-output-dynatrace

And add this in output in config:

output { dynatrace { url => "https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/logs/ingest" api_token => "YOUR_TOKEN" } }

Re: Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

henk_stobbe — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:28:57 GMT

Hi Pawlak,

Are you sure for metrics also?

KR Henk

Re: Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

t_pawlak — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:59:18 GMT

Sorry,
I saw Logstash and immediately focused on logs, not metrics.
In this case, IMO you should use an OpenTelemetry Collector and send them via OTLP, which is probably the cleaner long-term approach.
I think a native Metricbeat --> OTLP/HTTP path here without an additional bridge is not possible

Re: Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

CSBee — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:18:33 GMT

Hi @t_pawlak if that was not an option could you format the elastic JSON in to an http message and send to the Dynatrace API end point? Or is that a no go

Thanks

Caroline

Re: Shipping Beats/Logslash metrics to Dynatarec

t_pawlak — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:47:26 GMT

Hi,
Technically, it’s possible, but is it worth it?
Dynatrace metrics ingest doesn’t accept raw JSON, so you first need to transform it into the Dynatrace metric ingestion format. It can be done with Logstash + HTTP output, but it requires custom mapping.
That’s also why I mentioned OpenTelemetry, it handles the transformation and protocol side for you, which makes it easier to maintain in the long run.