# How to do a POST event in Synthetic Browser monitoring? **URL:** \ **Category:** Synthetic Monitoring\ **Tags:** synthetic-monitoring\ **Created:** [July 31, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949 "2020-07-31T18:48:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AntonioSousa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antoniosousa/32/50_2.png) [@AntonioSousa](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonioSousa)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/1 "2020-07-31T18:48:37Z")
I’m trying to do a simple synthetic browser monitoring script, that does a POST request with some data. I have been struggling for more than an hour to find how to do such basic functionality, but seems it’s better to seek some help here… Any clue? ---
**Author:** ![ChadTurner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/chadturner/32/161_2.png) [@ChadTurner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ChadTurner)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/2 "2020-07-31T18:55:34Z")
@Antonio S. i was just able to create a synthetic monitor click path that goes to the Dynatrace Config API and creates a managment zone, and then deletes it. Where are you running into a snag? ---
**Author:** ![AntonioSousa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antoniosousa/32/50_2.png) [@AntonioSousa](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonioSousa)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/3 "2020-07-31T21:14:24Z")
It must be because it’s late Friday night here 😉 I have looked at the available browser clickpath events, > **[Browser clickpath events in Classic](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/digital-experience/synthetic-monitoring/browser-monitors/browser-clickpath-events)** > > Learn about the event types created when recording a browser clickpath. but there seems to be no way of making a POST, namely with the “navigate” event. It does seem to be possible to do it with the HTTP monitors, but not with the browser monitors, which was the one I referenced… ---
**Author:** ![AntonioSousa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antoniosousa/32/50_2.png) [@AntonioSousa](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonioSousa)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/4 "2020-08-03T13:02:16Z")
[@Chad T.,](https://answers.dynatrace.com/users/36422/view.html) Can you confirm please what type of synthetic monitor you used? Just to be sure it was not the browser clickpath? ---
**Author:** ![hannahmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@hannahmac](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/hannahmac)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/5 "2020-08-03T13:05:50Z")
How are you doing this? I’ve seen it work in Browser Clickpaths using fetch. The first event has to be a Navigate in Clickpaths though, so you can only do this as a later event. ---
**Author:** ![ChadTurner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/chadturner/32/161_2.png) [@ChadTurner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ChadTurner)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/6 "2020-08-03T13:10:52Z")
I did use the click path to do the post - I did not run into any issues with that - I dont think you can do it via the basic browser monitor as how would you input the Json payload. ---
**Author:** ![AntonioSousa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antoniosousa/32/50_2.png) [@AntonioSousa](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonioSousa)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/7 "2020-08-03T14:33:00Z")
Not sure what “fetch” you are referring to? Yes, the Navigate is the first. After that I have the following options: ![25962-1596464600805.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/2X/5/56ac3977de8531a00ae7363b723874a88df5b986.png) Navigate seems the only option that could support a POST, but it is very limited in what we can do: ![25926-1596464737140.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/2X/c/c980ca7a9825e8f544cc7a7492ccffd70d64ab50.png) ---
**Author:** ![ChadTurner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/chadturner/32/161_2.png) [@ChadTurner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ChadTurner)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/8 "2020-08-03T14:40:04Z")
Why are you adding it manually? its much easier if you add the chrome extension, then record your click path via the new browser window and access your www.\.com and post the json payload. ---
**Author:** ![AntonioSousa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antoniosousa/32/50_2.png) [@AntonioSousa](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonioSousa)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/9 "2020-08-03T14:51:29Z")
Yes, I normally use the Chrome extension, but in this specific case, it can’t be done 😞 Now I understand how you did it 🙂 BTW, this is not a POST to an API. It is a specific POST in a login situation… I’ll probably have to go the Javascript route… ---
**Author:** ![ChadTurner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/chadturner/32/161_2.png) [@ChadTurner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ChadTurner)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/10 "2020-08-03T14:54:37Z")
ahh okay, id be interested if you can still be able to get it working via the click path set up - keep us in the loop how it goes.! you can always also create the Synthetic via in a Json then pass it into Dynatrace and have it create it. ---
**Author:** ![hannahmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@hannahmac](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/hannahmac)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/11 "2020-08-03T14:55:17Z")
Apologies, I should have mentioned that it’s a ‘fetch’ in JavaScript event that is required to do this. ---
**Author:** ![hannahmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@hannahmac](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/hannahmac)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/12 "2020-08-03T16:08:10Z")
You’ll want something like this: ```auto api.startAsyncSyntheticEvent();
fetch('', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'content-type': 'application/json'},
body: ''
}).then(response => response.text()).then(text => {
try {
api.info('Success');
api.finish();
} else {
api.fail("Invalid Response");
}
} catch (err) {
api.fail("Failed to Execute");
} }); ``` ---
**Author:** ![AntonioSousa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antoniosousa/32/50_2.png) [@AntonioSousa](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonioSousa)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/13 "2020-08-03T16:36:52Z")
Thanks Hannah, I’m finally done, but didn’t use the POST after all, because there were Javascript tricks, so I had to reverse engineer the HTML/Javascript code, and in the ending it was quite easier than I would have thought. What seems could be a limitation around the few options available in Dynatrace, is easily worked around with Javascript 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ChadTurner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/chadturner/32/161_2.png) [@ChadTurner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ChadTurner)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/14 "2020-08-03T17:06:51Z")
Great Team Work! ---
**Author:** ![Cesarlopezh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@Cesarlopezh](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Cesarlopezh)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-do-a-post-event-in-synthetic-browser-monitoring/19949/15 "2023-04-25T16:33:59Z")
Hi Antonio, Can you post the solution?