topic Synthetic tests - Private and Cluster types in Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic tests - Private and Cluster types

irakli_natsvlis — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:01:40 GMT

In the documentation it is mentioned:

Possible values for the type element in the LocationCollectionElement object:

CLUSTER
PRIVATE
PUBLIC

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/synthetic/synthetic-locations/get-all-locations/?response-parameters%3C-%3Ejson-model=response-parameters

How Cluster type is different than Private?

Also:

Possible values for the status element in the LocationCollectionElement object:

DISABLED
ENABLED
HIDDEN

What purpose Hidden has?

Thanks.

Re: Synthetic tests - Private and Cluster types

HannahM — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:22:43 GMT

Hi Irakli,

you're correct that 'CLUSTER' is indeed a type of private location but it is good to differentiate between them as a 'PRIVATE' location is only available to 1 environment whereas a 'CLUSTER' location is available to multiple environments within a managed cluster.
'HIDDEN' is used for locations that are available for some tenants but not others. So we mark them as 'HIDDEN' in the accounts that they are not available for. I don't believe that we have any of these at the moment though.

Best wishes, Hannah

Re: Synthetic tests - Private and Cluster types

irakli_natsvlis — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:20:52 GMT

Thanks, Hannah,

So if I want to create a private synthetic test location that is available for all environments in the cluster I should set it up as Cluster, and set up the corresponding Cluster ActiveGate, correct?

Re: Synthetic tests - Private and Cluster types

HannahM — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:54:03 GMT

Yes, you need to follow the Cluster ActiveGate instructions here.