How to pipeline dynatrace client to Kafka?

[charles_ennasir]

Hi Team, I want to dynatrace metrics data to Kibana for visualization through Kafka?

[charles_ennasir]

Dynatrace client to Kafka to ELK

[Julius_Loman · Accepted solution]

If talking about metrics, you should use the API exclusively. Unfortunately for you, Dynatrace does not have any option to automatically pipe metrics out, you have to pull them using the REST API.

I don't have much experience with Kibana and I also don't know your objectives, but it seems you should be able to achieve this by writing a Kibana Timelion plugin. But this would require a decent JavaScript knowledge.

[pahofmann · Accepted solution]

You can push RUM data directly to Elastic via the User Session Data Export.

For metrics you would have to pull them yourself via the API as @Julius L. suggested.