Custom Device Metric Ingestion

[davidg]

I have trying to test some thresholds but cannot ingest customer metric data via the v2api /metrics/injest

ext:tech.IBMMQ_Java.Queue.Depth

Data Body:

ext:tech.IBMMQ_Java.Queue.Depth,Queue=FRED.LOG.DATA 2780

The v2 api returns the following error:

failed to parse metric key of message 'ext:tech.IBMMQ_Java.Queue.Depth,Queue=FRED.LOG.DATA 278'; error at ':' (index 3)

I have tried various methods of escaping the ':' but would like an example of how this is done.

[Fin_Ubels · Accepted solution]

Hey David,

As per the following documentation when using the metric ingestion API you cannot use ':' in the metric key as well as uppercase characters in dimensions.

Metric ingestion protocol | Dynatrace Docs

Hope this helps!

[dannemca]

It seems you are trying to ingest custom data in a extension metric (almost builtin), which I don't think it is possible.