Frequency on Synthetic Monitors

[salvias]

Can I specify a specific time and day(s) for a synthetic script to run, user interface only offers hour/minutes intervals 

[Fin_Ubels]

Hey salvias,
I don't believe this is a feature, as a workaround though you could setup something to interact with the API to enable and disable your synthetic at certain dates/times.

Details on the API for editing a synthetic can be found here:
https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/synthetic/synthetic-monitors/pu...

[techean · Accepted solution]

Hi Salvia,

We have a API that exposes the frequency of monitors can check on the same. However if my understanding is correct you can even try the built-in outage handling & alerting? (Monitor settings -> Outage handling) which will help to implement own alert handling. Currently this may not be supported if you want to extract a metric to pin it to dashboard.

[HannahM]

For scheduling monitors at specific times of day or days of the week, we recommend the use of Maintenance Windows. One of the options when creating a Maintenance Window is to disable Synthetic Monitors .  So you could do this for groups of monitors or single ones to get them only running at specified times. 

[Fin_Ubels]

Hey @salvias,

Just letting you know that there is a new API allowing for manual triggering of a batch of synthetics so you can create a tool that targets that API. Alternatively you can also manually trigger a synthetic at any time within the UI but still cannot schedule it for any time within the UI.

Docs for triggering synthetics with the API can be found below:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/synthetic-v2/synthetic-monitor-...

[y_buccellato]

Have you already explored the possibility to implement that logic via Maintenance Windows?