topic Re: Monaco: Creating Host Naming Conditional Rules in Automations

Monaco: Creating Host Naming Conditional Rules

mherbert — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:44:25 GMT

Hi,

We're using Monaco to manage Management zone creation and management. I was looking to extend this to other parts of our configuration including Host Naming rules. I can see there a Conditional Naming Rule API to support this, but can not find the relevant schema name to use with in Monaco. Is this no longer supported or can someone point me in the right direction please?

I've attached a schema identifier export of what Monaco appears to check.

Thanks

Martin

Re: Monaco: Creating Host Naming Conditional Rules

Julius_Loman — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:11:10 GMT

You need to use configuration API, not the settings API as those configurations are not possible to set using settings API. This API predates the Settings API.

The best way is to create one configuration manually in your Dynatrace environment, then download the configurations using monaco download command and see how it's defined.

Re: Monaco: Creating Host Naming Conditional Rules

t_pawlak — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:08:36 GMT

those naming rules still rely on the older Configuration API and can’t be deployed via the Settings API schemas.

For anyone looking to include this in Monaco, the configuration should be declared in the config.yaml like this example:

configs: - id: xxxxxx-xxx-xxxx config: name: Example template: example.json skip: false type: settings: schema: builtin:management-zones schemaVersion: 1.0.12 scope: environment

This structure works the same way for management zones or any other configuration supported via the Configuration API.
For the Conditional Naming Rules, you’ll just need to switch the schema/type to the corresponding one once you export it using monaco download.

Re: Monaco: Creating Host Naming Conditional Rules

mherbert — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:25:34 GMT

Hi All,

Many thanks, I've exported a configuration that included this successfully and now have the schema name. Below is the template for reference as an example 🙂

{ "displayName": "{{.name}}", "enabled": true, "nameFormat": "{Host:DetectedName/([^\\.]*+)}", "rules": [ { "comparisonInfo": { "caseSensitive": true, "negate": false, "operator": "CONTAINS", "type": "STRING", "value": "{{.fqdnDomain}}" }, "key": { "attribute": "HOST_DETECTED_NAME", "type": "STATIC" } } ], "type": "HOST" }