Metrics v2: How to pull out data from specific Key Request or use filters

[janne_olkoniemi]

How to pull out data from metrics api v2 which would contain data from one certain key request?
Should I use and obtain the entityID for my KeyRequest somehow and would there be possibility to filter the requests based on request parameters?

I can filter out some certain service but this call returns data from all the Key Requests and I would need to filter my data to one specific use case but can't get my head around how to do it.

https://xxxxxxxxx.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/query?resolution=Inf&from=1595851920000&to=1595852100000&api-token=XXXXXXXXXX&metricSelector=builtin:service.keyRequest.dbChildCallCount&entitySelector=type(SERVICE_METHOD),entityId(SERVICE_METHOD-18444A1107CDD08C )

I have tried go trough the documentation but I would appreciate if someone could offer some help how we could filter out data.

[Radu · Accepted solution]

Hi Janne,

You are absolutely spot on! Your API call seems correct to me.

The key parts are:

• metricSelector - must be for a '.keyRequest.' type metric
• entitySelector - must have:

type("SERVICE_METHOD"),entityId("SERVICE_METHOD-xxxxxxxx")

Also, make sure your metric actually exists at the keyRequest level. On my environment for example, I have dbChildCall only at the service level:

builtin:service.dbChildCallCount

Try using a generic one (for testing purposes) to ensure your call returns something. Maybe something like:

builtin:service.keyRequest.count.total

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Radu