Looking for reference material for developing integrations

[Dhruv]

Hi Community,
Use Case:
I want to do a POC and build an integration in Dynatrace that fetches data from a third-party platform. The ingested data should then be correlated within Dynatrace, and dashboards should be created to visualize the insights.

Questions:

• Can this use case be implemented using a Dynatrace Extension?
• If so, how can we make the extension publicly available to all users and publish it in the Hub
• What is the process for publishing an extension to the Dynatrace Hub?

I would appreciate any guidance or documentation references.

[SjoerdB]

Hi Dhruv,

- This can definitively be done with extensions, that's their main goal. You can define the topology to define relationships and setup screen definitions on how data should be visualised. The visualisation is shifting from GEN2 to GEN3, so if you set it up correctly in your extensions yaml, you will get your entities nicely integrated in the "infrastructure & Operations" app.

Next step would be to setup the new smartscape entities, but for now you will have your entities as CUSTOM_DEVICE in Dynatrace.

- You can make it publicly available if you wish, but probably you best publish on github

- process for publishing on Dynatrace Hub can probably better be explained by Dynatrace personnel (if possible)

Out of curiosity: what third-party platform do you want to interface with?