How to identify if monitoring is enabled or disabled for all HOSTS in one call?

[Ingrida]

Hi,

We are working on ability to enable/disable monitoring for multiple Hosts at once and need a way to identify current monitoring status for all Hosts in environment.

with fields=+properties.monitoringMode in /api/v2/entities call we can easily to identify monitoring mode, however, only way we found so far to identify if monitoring is enabled or not is to call /api/config/v1/hosts/ API for every single HOST. 

Is there any better way to do this? not doing 5000 calls for 5000 Hosts?

Thanks!

I.

[JamesKitson]

If you use the V1 SmartScape - Hosts API it includes monitoring mode in the response if you select to include details: https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/api-hosts-get-all#response-body

[Ingrida]

Hi James,

Thanks for information. I have tow painpoints with this solution:

- it is v1 API. Will it be kept for the future?

- it allows me to get information for one HOST. SO, if I have 10.000 hosts I have to loop it 10.000 times if I need to get an overview about status. 

it is not a problem to get Monitoring mode with v2 entities call as it is part of entity Type HOST properties. However, I am talking about monitoringEnable property for which I would need to use v1 call in loop.... 😞 

Any other option?

Thanks! 

I.

[JamesKitson]

The API I linked returns multiple hosts, II just verified that, not one so it won't need a separate call to get every host. I'm not aware of any plans to get rid of any v1 endpoints, most likely they just won't get any enhancements. 

[Ingrida · Accepted solution]

hi James, you are absolutelly right, sorry for confusion, /api/v1/entity/infrastructure/hosts returns all hosts, however, it doesnot return monitoringEnable property, just monitoringMode.

However, I found meanwhile that /api/v1/oneagents is able toprovide this information via configuredMonitoringEnabled property, hence my problem too get montoringenabled state for all hosts in one call is solved by now.

Thanks for support!

I.