Custom Event ingestion from external script

[JobyJob]

How can I generate a custom event from a shell script to be ingested into Dynatrace. This event is after a shell script invoked by a Jenkins job found that an API integration from one of the nodes has broken. This is part of proactive monitoring of the system integration, so as to minimize customer impact.

[lubrman]

Hi @JobyJob 

Yes, there are several ways to directly create a custom alert using the APIs provided by Dynatrace when a script fails.

POST https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/events

Alternatively, if your script sends logs, you can forward those logs to Dynatrace and then trigger an alert based on them.
POST https://{environmentid}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/logs/ingest

[AntonPineiro]

Hi,

You can use Metric scripting integration also.

Best regards

[Julius_Loman · Accepted solution]

@lubrman @JobyJob this is actually the comprehensive docs https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/extend-events
One should not forget the option to ingest the event locally on a host with OneAgent. It does not need any API token in such case.