Synthetic Monitoring of heavy client with Dynatrace

[H_THIM]

Hello team .

i'm wondering if there is a way to have synthetic monitoring of a application which is a heavy client (not web application) ..the app is installed on the laptop 

For now i see only browser monitor or  a clickpath on the synthetic part

Do you have any idea to handle this ? 

is that any extension /plugging ? 

[AntonPineiro · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Dynatrace only covers web apps today.

You can ingest data via Third-party synthetic API. Something as selenium or whatever external tool, and ingest data to Dynatrace.

But Dynatrace Recorder is only for web apps, not rich desktop applications.

Best regards

[H_THIM]

Hello @AntonPineiro .

it's clear not possible ...thanks for the quick reply ? do you know may be other third-party that i can use which are already making connexion with dynatrace API .

BR

[AntonPineiro]

Hi,

No idea but since Dynatrace has an API available, it would be any third party tool which allow you to make HTTP POST calls.

Best regards

[AntonioSousa · Accepted solution]

@H_THIM,

Normally, in these situations, I would prefer using Openkit:
https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/extend-dynatrace/openkit/instrument-your-application-using-dynatrace...

It gives you a RUM view of the client, so not of course typical Synthetic view. And it does involve changing the source code, which might not be an option for you. But it will get you the most reliable data.

If the heavy client does web requests, you can do those web requests in Synthetics. Of course, that will not emulate what the client does exactly, but it can get close.

Additionally, you might have an option to run the client in some other form, like using RPA for instance, and then be able to upload that data through one of the several APIs that you can use in these cases.

[H_THIM]

Hello @AntonioSousa 

thanks for the quick feedback .

i'm really talking about non web app (heavy client installed in the machine )

The idea is make simulation of user transaction with a app directly loaded in the desktop  (like it done with web on clickpath ) .but seems DT not can not handle it .

BR 

BR 

[AntonioSousa]

@H_THIM,

Yes, you will not be able to do it entirely with Dynatrace.

If you have a RPA solution, that would be probably the fastest way to get things running. If not, check out Microsoft Power Automate or Appian, for instance. Or also selenium as @AntonPineiro has suggested.

In any case, with the above, you would also need to program the ingestion of metrics/data into Dynatrace.

[H_THIM]

thanks all for your replay .

i head about sikulix , 

i investigate on more that