# Dynatrace Managed API : Get requests for process ?

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599>\
**Category:** Dynatrace API\
**Tags:** process-groups, dynatrace-api\
**Created:** [November 26, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599 "2018-11-26T14:52:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![peverard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peverard](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/peverard)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/1 "2018-11-26T14:52:05Z")

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Hi,

Is it possible to get requests for process with the API ?

For example :

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![radek\_jasinski](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/radek_jasinski/32/10432_2.png) [@radek\_jasinski](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/radek_jasinski)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/2 "2018-11-28T11:01:35Z")

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Clould you include your example?

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**Author:** ![peverard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peverard](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/peverard)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/3 "2018-12-03T09:51:53Z")

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Hi,

Here the example.

 ![19034-requestsprocesspng.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/7/9/792c1108f8ef0f98f448a5a4107fb83b8a7876a5.png)

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**Author:** ![radek\_jasinski](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/radek_jasinski/32/10432_2.png) [@radek\_jasinski](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/radek_jasinski)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/4 "2018-12-03T10:52:46Z")

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Do you need number of requests or particular requests information?

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**Author:** ![peverard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peverard](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/peverard)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 10:55am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/5 "2018-12-03T10:55:56Z")

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Hi,

I need number of requests per process (not only Web server, also Jboss or Tomcat …).

Pierrick.

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**Author:** ![radek\_jasinski](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/radek_jasinski/32/10432_2.png) [@radek\_jasinski](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/radek_jasinski)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/6 "2018-12-03T11:13:58Z")

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You can use Timeseries API:

[https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-…](https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment/timeseries-api/manage-custom-metrics-via-api/.)

You have a few interesting parameters there:

- timeseriesIdentifier
- Count
- etc

In theory, it should work. You must try it.

Radek

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**Author:** ![peverard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peverard](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/peverard)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/7 "2018-12-03T12:45:38Z")

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Thanks Radek,

I already used the API but it seem’s that I can’t get requests for PGI. I just need confirmation :

/opt/Tenedis/jobs/getManagedMetrics.py -H ‘[dynatrace.april.interne.fr](http://dynatrace.april.interne.fr)’ -T ‘apiToken’ -o ‘tenant’ -v metrics | grep -i pgi | sort | cut -d ‘;’ -f 1,2  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.availability;Availability  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.availability.percent;Availability percentage  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.cpu.usage;Process CPU Usage  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.docker.container.perprocess;Docker: Number of Containers per Process  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.allocated\_heap\_objects\_count;Heap allocated Go objects count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.cf\_auctioneer\_fetch\_states\_duration;Auctioneer: Time to fetch cell states  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.cf\_auctioneer\_lrp\_auctions\_failed;Auctioneer: App instance placement failures  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.cf\_auctioneer\_lrp\_auctions\_started;Auctioneer: App instance starts  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.cf\_auctioneer\_task\_auctions\_failed;Auctioneer: Task placement failures  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.cgo\_call\_count;Go to C language (cgo) call count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.gc\_collection\_count;Garbage collector invocation count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.global\_runqueue\_size;Global Goroutine run queue size  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.heap\_idle\_size;Heap idle size  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.heap\_live\_size;Heap live size  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.http\_bad\_gateways;Gorouter: 502 response count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.http\_latency;Gorouter: Response latency  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.http\_responses\_5xx;Gorouter: 5xx response count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.http\_total\_requests;Gorouter: Total request count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.idle\_p\_count;Idle scheduling context count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.idling\_m\_count;Parked worker thread count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.m\_count;Worker thread count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.memory\_pool\_committed;Committed memory  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.memory\_pool\_used;Used memory  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.running\_g\_count;Application Goroutine count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.spinning\_m\_count;Out of work worker thread count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.sys\_call\_count;Go runtime system call count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.go.system\_g\_count;System Goroutine count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.jvm.committedmemory;JVM heap memory pool committed bytes  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.jvm.garbagecollectioncount;Garbage collection count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.jvm.garbagecollectiontime;Garbage collection time  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.jvm.threadcount;JVM thread count  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.jvm.usedmemory;JVM heap memory pool used bytes  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.mem.usage;Process Memory  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.nic.bytesreceived;Bytes Received per Second  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.nic.bytessent;Bytes Sent per Second  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.responsiveness;Server Responsiveness  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.suspension;Garbage collection suspension time  
com.dynatrace.builtin:pgi.workerprocesses;Process Process Count

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**Author:** ![radek\_jasinski](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/radek_jasinski/32/10432_2.png) [@radek\_jasinski](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/radek_jasinski)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/8 "2018-12-03T15:06:58Z")

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You can use this metric:

com.dynatrace.builtin:app.custom.webrequestcount

Radek

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**Author:** ![peverard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peverard](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/peverard)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/9 "2018-12-03T15:09:07Z")

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Thanks but it’s a custom metric … I never got a value with it.

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**Author:** ![skrystosik](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/skrystosik/32/21133_2.png) [@skrystosik](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/skrystosik)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/dynatrace-managed-api-get-requests-for-process/18599/10 "2018-12-03T18:47:26Z")

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If I understand API properly, to get value from custom metric, you have to set up it first.
