topic Re: How to use the App Environment SDK in functions? in Developer Q&A Forum

How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

thomas_c — Tue, 02 May 2023 13:32:19 GMT

Hi Team,

I need to retrieve and use the environment's URL in a Dashboard/Notebook function.

The docs seems lacking the info on which SDK to import. I tried the following but get an error:

Could you please guide me on using that SDK?

Thanks,

Thomas

Re: How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

stefan_eggersto — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 11:04:09 GMT

Hi Thomas,

@dynatrace-sdk/app-environment can only be used in apps and is not available for ad-hoc functions.

As an alternative, you can use globalThis.environmentUrl to access the environment URL.

Re: How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

thomas_c — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:21:32 GMT

Thanks Stefan! That works great in ad-hoc functions too.

Just to close the loop, is there a way to use such globalThis properties in a dashboard's markdown tile? Just like we can do via a dashboard variable.

Re: How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

MarwanC — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:36:28 GMT

Can you kindly let me know how extract the incoming header and the body as I need to process those to do other stuff in the app function? can I use globalThis.? where is the documentation can be found of globalThis.x Thanks in advance for your support

Re: How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

MarwanC — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:37:13 GMT

Dear Stefan, Can you kindly let me know how extract the incoming header and the body as I need to process those to do other stuff in the app function? can I use globalThis.? where is the documentation can be found of globalThis.x Thanks in advance for your support

Re: How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

MarwanC — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:58:29 GMT

I also see that

globalThis.environmentUrl is marked as depricated and they advise to use this code, hope this is helpful to everyone:

import { getEnvironmentId } from '@dynatrace-sdk/app-environment';

export default async function (payload: unknown = undefined) {

// Get the current environment ID

const environmentId = getEnvironmentId();

return environmentId;

}

Re: How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

MarwanC — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:24:57 GMT

import { getEnvironmentUrl } from '@dynatrace-sdk/app-environment';

export default async function (payload: unknown = undefined) {

// Get the current environment URL

const environmentUrl = getEnvironmentUrl();

return environmentUrl;

}

If the URL is required use the above