topic Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments in Dynatrace tips

Postman for effortless Dynatrace API access across environments

pahofmann — Wed, 29 May 2024 08:15:45 GMT

I've been updating Postman collections for myself for a while to make it easier to work with the Dynatrace API across multiple clusters, tenants, and environments.

I have put the files on github now, maybe someone will find it useful.

If you need the Account Management API check out the Postman Collection from my fellow DynaMight @DanielS!

Setup is very quick, then you can just select the request and environment against which to execute it.

Here is a short guide:

Import collections

Postman is available for free from postman.com.

Import (file -> import) the collection .json files for the APIs you want:

A separate collection for each, including all requests of that API, will be created:

Create environments

For each of your Dynatrace environments/tenants you want to use, add a postman environment via manage environments -> add:

The environment needs two variables (names are case sensitive!):

DT_HOST
- URL to the environments
  - For managed: your-dt-domain.com/e/Environment-ID
    - example.com/e/b80b158e-ev23-4330-30fcc-c4391bbx6ce2
  - For SaaS: Env-ID.live.dynatrace.com
    - abc133769.live.dynatrace.com
DT_TOKEN
- An API token for the environment

Request away!

Now you can open any request and easily execute it against different Dynatrace environments by selecting the environment on the top right:

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

AntonioSousa — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:07:24 GMT

This seems very interesting! Going to check it out when I have a little time.

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

Malaik — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:19:42 GMT

Thanks @pahofmann for sharing, sure will be useful.

I cant find the way to get the json files.

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

pahofmann — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:24:22 GMT

You can get from from the API Explorer.

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

Malaik — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 07:55:58 GMT

Hi @pahofmann ,

How can I download the collection from the github ?

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

pahofmann — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:09:27 GMT

The collections are saved as .json files in the repository.

You can either copy them from the specs folder or just download the whole bundle from the releases page.

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

Malaik — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:31:24 GMT

Thanks a lot man

Good day 🙂

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

pahofmann — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:58:00 GMT

Updated to 220, including cluster APIs.

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

pahofmann — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 08:57:19 GMT

With one of the recent Postman version the UI changed a bit. The environments can now be found in the left side menue:

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

Malaik — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 07:12:48 GMT

Yes, i used this version after my last post

Thanks or your update.

Very Useful

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

pahofmann — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:50:51 GMT

Latest Release updated to Version 1.226 (Cluster API 1.224)

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

theharithsa — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:02:17 GMT

It was very much helpful and this acts as a utility to have. It saves a lot of time while working with customers.

Thanks for sharing.

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

pahofmann — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:25:36 GMT

Updated to 1.234: Github Link.

Re: Postman for effortless dynatrace API access across environments

wim_muselle — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:49:36 GMT

top nodge, we are currently working on an API v2 version for integration to Splunk , having this so visual in postman really helps. works like a charm.