# Hardware components

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hardware-components/42780>\
**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** hosts-classic\
**Created:** [November 22, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hardware-components/42780 "2023-11-22T14:12:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![clc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@clc](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/clc)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hardware-components/42780/1 "2023-11-22T14:12:25Z")

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Any ways to extract hardware information, cpu model etc. into dynatrace?

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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 22, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hardware-components/42780/2 "2023-11-22T14:30:32Z")

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Hi&nbsp;[@clc](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/12958)

Basic information can be found on the host tab in the section: Properties and tags.

 ![abhi_1-1670545911210.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/2X/7/79e557d44b26addcc0afabdaca8ffe62d5d6e6c5.png)

Other information is not automatically captured. We can add manually information using: [Define tags and metadata for hosts — Dynatrace Docs](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform-modules/infrastructure-monitoring/hosts/configuration/define-tags-and-metadata-for-hosts)

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**Author:** ![cesarsaravia](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/cesarsaravia/32/12818_2.png) [@cesarsaravia](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/cesarsaravia)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hardware-components/42780/3 "2023-11-22T14:57:05Z")

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Hi&nbsp;[@clc](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/12958)&nbsp;  
You can send additional metadata for hosts and then use the API to get every entity and their details (properties)  
Metadata for Hosts:&nbsp;[Define tags and metadata for hosts — Dynatrace Docs](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/tagging-hostautotag)&nbsp;  
API Get Entity:&nbsp;[Monitored entities API - GET an entity — Dynatrace Docs](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/api-entities-v2-get-entity)

This is a response body example of what information the entity gets:&nbsp;[Monitored entities API - GET an entity — Dynatrace Docs](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/api-entities-v2-get-entity#response-body-json-model)

BR,