Set custom value in synthetic and show it in dashboards

[george_azzam]

Hello,

I would like to be able to set a key-value inside a synthetic script, and then be able to see this value inside a dashboard.

This should be a custom key-value that I can calculate during the synthetic script run, set it as a (maybe global) key-value, and when opening a dashboard the up-to-date value should be shown.

Is this possible?

We work with NewRelic, and we consider moving to Dynatrace, In NewRelic we could easily do this operation by using $util.insights.set(Key, Value); and then read the value inside the dashboard.

Thanks very much.

[Yosi_Neuman · Accepted solution]

Hi @george_azzam 

Check the Pre-execution script methods request.addHeader(key,value)

HTH

Yos 

[george_azzam]

But how can I fetch this data to a Metric inside the dashboard ?!

For example I used:

request.addHeader("ScansCount", "8765");

How can  I show the "ScansCount" value/avg/sum/etc inside a metric in a dashboard?

-- EDIT --

We work on Clickpath scripts

@Yosi_Neuman 

[Yosi_Neuman · Accepted solution]

For that you will need to collect the information from server side with request attribute and calculated metrics then you will be able to chart your metrics with data explorer.