topic Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response in Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Balamurugesh — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:06:42 GMT

Hi Team,

I am trying to get monthwise availaibity metrics of synthetics monitors using Synthetic API, but in response, am getting timestamps in UNIX format. Is there is way to get it in DD-MM-YY format or human understandable format?

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Fin_Ubels — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:53:59 GMT

Hey Balamurugesh,

If you request the data in CSV format you will get get a date/time format as seen in my screenshot below.

My example query looks like the following.

The docs for querying metrics can be found below with an example for the CSV format at the bottom.
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/metric-v2/get-data-points#tabgroup--examples--aggregated-data-point

Unfortunately I can't see a way to request the time in a date/time format when getting a response in json.

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

techean — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 05:05:43 GMT

No! currently there is no way you can get that response change from api. You can use a post processor script.

Also check this solution if helps

RFE in place RFE - Dynatrace API can specific timezone using relative timeframe parameters - Dynatrace Community

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Balamurugesh — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:56:01 GMT

thanks for the details. When i query metrics API, am getting monitor Id's in response. Is there a way to get monitorName instead of monitorId in response?

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Fin_Ubels — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:38:19 GMT

If you have a look at the screenshots I posted you can get the name by adding :names to your metric query. As you can see in the CSV response for my query the name of my http monitor is Recipe API.

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Balamurugesh — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:19:45 GMT

hi Fin, I have tied each synthetic monitor with respective application. Am looking for application name as well in response. Is there a way to get the tied Application name in response?

Regards,Dingu

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Fin_Ubels — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:08:48 GMT

If you tied the application name to the synthetic with tags, as far as I can tell that isn't possible without making another request to get the details on the synthetic in question. Using the returned synthetic ID you can query the synthetic API to get all details including tags.
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/synthetic/synthetic-monitors/get-a-monitor

Below is an example

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Balamurugesh — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:01:43 GMT

Is there any possibility to get the application details in metrics API call?

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Fin_Ubels — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:13:07 GMT

Not that I can find unfortunately unless you used a synthetic naming scheme that used the applications name since the synthetic name is provided in the query response.

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Balamurugesh — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:58:46 GMT

hi Fin,

I am using below curl request to pull synthetic monitors availability metrics for a month.

curl -X GET "https://abc.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/query?metricSelector=builtin%3Asynthetic.browser.availabili..." -H "accept: application/json; charset=utf-8" -H "Authorization: Api-Token apiKey"

When i run this query today, am getting data for march month. what should i update in the query to get previous month (FEb month)availability data?

Thanks,

bala

Re: Synthetic monitoring Availability - Metrics API response

Fin_Ubels — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:02:15 GMT

Hey Bala,
You need to modify the timeframe selector in your query. There is a cheat sheet for it in DT when you expand the selector input. I would suggest reading into the examples in there as well as looking into the docs as it's very useful for building out complex dashboards and reports relying on the API.

What you're looking for is "&from=now-1M/M&to=now/M" which specifies from now minus 1 month, then rounding to the nearest month. Then it goes to now rounded to the nearest month. So it would round from the beginning of Feb to the beginning of March.