topic Re: Default Dynatrace user agent name in Dynatrace Managed Synthetic in Synthetic Monitoring

Default Dynatrace user agent name in Dynatrace Managed Synthetic

dustin_lee — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:20:17 GMT

Would anyone be able to tell me what "Default Dynatrace user agent" would be reported as? Would it be some variant of Chrome?

Re: Default Dynatrace user agent name in Dynatrace Managed Synthetic

sia_h — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 22:50:08 GMT

Hi Dustin,

I tested it out on my web application and it provided a Chrome 68 User Agent.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106-1 Safari/537.36 RuxitSynthetic/1.0 v1180896077 t81618

Sia

Re: Default Dynatrace user agent name in Dynatrace Managed Synthetic

AlexanderSommer — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:56:14 GMT

The user agent depends by the used profile for the test. If you choose a mobile profile via the settings ui of the browser monitor the user agent will be different, but "RuxitSynthetic" is always there

Re: Default Dynatrace user agent name in Dynatrace Managed Synthetic

dustin_lee — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:14:46 GMT

So if the Desktop profile is selected for the synthetic monitor it should be Chrome 68?

Re: Default Dynatrace user agent name in Dynatrace Managed Synthetic

ben_wrightson — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:21:22 GMT

Two different user agents are used.
For HTTP Monitors see "User agent" in https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/http-monitors-config#basic-settings, for Browser monitors see "Default user agent" in https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/browser-monitors-config#device-profile.