Content validation: check against today's date possible?

[olga_wall]

Hi all,

I know that it's possible in browser monitors to validate against text, regex, and placeholders such as {email}.

I have a use case where I'd like to validate against today's date (i.e. the date of the execution day). A regex wouldn't be helpful in this case because there is a list of dates and I'd need a content validation of the latest.

Has anyone done something like this before? If yes, how? Or is this impossible to achieve with a synthetic monitor at all?

Thanks,

Olga

[HannahM]

Hi Olga, 

yes, date validation and manipulation are both possible in Dynatrace Synthetic. You can use api.date() to get the current date in epoch format. Then you can either convert it or compare it to a list of other epoch dates. 

[olga_wall]

Hi Hannah,

good to know, thanks!

Just to confirm: api.date() will also work with manually added JS events within browser clickpaths? Because I have only seen this reference only in the documentation section for HTTP monitors

[HannahM · Accepted solution]

Apologies, you're right. We need to use  Date.now() in the Browser Monitor JavaScript event instead. Good spot. 

[girish_dindukur]

I have a similar scenario..can you please provide some example on how to resolve this

[olga_wall]

Sorry, I haven't implemented this use case yet and thus I don't have any examples to share. 
But you can check the documentation on JavaScript events in browser monitors as a starting point: https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/id-brower-clickpath-events#javascript