topic Re: Frequency on Synthetic Monitors in Synthetic Monitoring

Frequency on Synthetic Monitors

salvias — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 21:13:22 GMT

Can I specify a specific time and day(s) for a synthetic script to run, user interface only offers hour/minutes intervals

Re: Frequency on Synthetic Monitors

Fin_Ubels — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Hey salvias,
I don't believe this is a feature, as a workaround though you could setup something to interact with the API to enable and disable your synthetic at certain dates/times.

Details on the API for editing a synthetic can be found here:
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/synthetic/synthetic-monitors/put-a-monitor

Re: Frequency on Synthetic Monitors

techean — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:12:26 GMT

Hi Salvia,

We have a API that exposes the frequency of monitors can check on the same. However if my understanding is correct you can even try the built-in outage handling & alerting? (Monitor settings -> Outage handling) which will help to implement own alert handling. Currently this may not be supported if you want to extract a metric to pin it to dashboard.

Re: Frequency on Synthetic Monitors

HannahM — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:58:39 GMT

For scheduling monitors at specific times of day or days of the week, we recommend the use of Maintenance Windows. One of the options when creating a Maintenance Window is to disable Synthetic Monitors . So you could do this for groups of monitors or single ones to get them only running at specified times.

Re: Frequency on Synthetic Monitors

Fin_Ubels — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:06:17 GMT

Hey @salvias,

Just letting you know that there is a new API allowing for manual triggering of a batch of synthetics so you can create a tool that targets that API. Alternatively you can also manually trigger a synthetic at any time within the UI but still cannot schedule it for any time within the UI.

Docs for triggering synthetics with the API can be found below:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/synthetic-v2/synthetic-monitor-execution/post-batch-execution

Re: Frequency on Synthetic Monitors

y_buccellato — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:35:10 GMT

Have you already explored the possibility to implement that logic via Maintenance Windows?