topic HTTP monitors and HTTP_PROXY on Linux? in Synthetic Monitoring

HTTP monitors and HTTP_PROXY on Linux?

AntonioSousa — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:58:34 GMT

Do synthetic HTTP monitors honor HTTP_PROXY configurations on Linux machines? Is it possible to get around the existing configuration?

Re: HTTP monitors and HTTP_PROXY on Linux?

Dallas — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:16:12 GMT

Hi Antonio,

I have not tested out to see if the HTTP monitor will honor HTTP_PROXY configuration by default. Hopefully someone else can answer that part; but I wanted to point you toward these documents that show you how to set proxy configurations on the activegates:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/synthetic-monitoring/private-synthetic-locations/setting-up-proxy-for-private-synthetic/

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/setup-and-configuration/dynatrace-activegate/configuration/set-up-proxy-authentication-for-activegate/

Assuming you test the monitor and it does not use the linux HTTP_PROXY config you will be able to set proxy configuration in the custom.properties file.

Hope this helps.

-Dallas

Re: HTTP monitors and HTTP_PROXY on Linux?

AntonioSousa — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:04:18 GMT

Thanks for pointing this out. Looking at it, and given that the default values are unset, I would believe the HTTP_PROXY is really not being used...

I will probably be able to confirm this after a tcpdump test...

Re: HTTP monitors and HTTP_PROXY on Linux?

AntonioSousa — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:46:35 GMT

I have done the network traffic capture and can confirm that it is NOT using HTTP_PROXY config in my case.