topic Re: Capturing login call response with Dynatrace in Real User Monitoring

Capturing login call response with Dynatrace

dantonag — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:23:31 GMT

Hello,

we have a mobile app->apache->tomcat stack we are monitoring with Dynatrace, and we would like to extract (for example) the result of a login call (I'm talking of the applicative result, so it's a field in the response, not the HTTP code).

Do you confirm that Dynatrace can't extract the result from an HTTP response?

The only way of doing this, if I'm correct, is to intercept the calls to the Java methods and try to extract a return value (via Settings->Server-side service monitoring->Request attributes). Is this correct?

Thanks

Re: Capturing login call response with Dynatrace

Babar_Qayyum — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:29:48 GMT

Hello @dantonag

Yes. We can have the following using the request attributes, but not the response body.

HTTP POST parameter
HTTP request header
HTTP response header

Regards,

Babar

Re: Capturing login call response with Dynatrace

kalle_lahtinen — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:49:08 GMT

Hi,

You can indeed extract portions of the response body by defining request attributes with the data source being, in this case, Java method parameters. You probably need to work with the developers a bit, to figure out which class and method outputs the data which you want to extract.

Re: Capturing login call response with Dynatrace

pahofmann — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:12:44 GMT

In general dynatrace does not allow for capturing the payload of an HTTP calls. The only exception is HTTP POST parameters of a request.

But you most certainly can get the data you need via a Java method parameter(s) Request Attribute, you just have to find the correct class/method to capture the argument you want.

Re: Capturing login call response with Dynatrace

Yosi_Neuman — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:12:13 GMT

And the last mile will be to leverage the Request Attribute value as a action or/and session property.

HTH

Yos