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Dynatrace data source for Grafana

The Dynatrace data source plugin allows you to query and visualize Dynatrace Metrics, Problems, Audit Logs, Management Zones, Logs and also use USQL from within Grafana. Querying Logs is currently in Beta as the underlying Dynatrace API is an Early Adopter Release.

Requirements

This plugin has the following requirements:

• A Dynatrace account
• One of the following account types:
  • Available for users with a Grafana Cloud Free, Advanced or Trial account or with an activated Grafana Enterprise license.

Known limitations

• Template variables cannot be multi-select; only single selection is supported.
• Querying Logs is currently in Beta as the underlying Dynatrace API is an Early Adopter Release.
• Querying Management zones require Read configuration scope. You can skip this scope, if you don’t want to use management zone filter.

Install the Dynatrace data source plugin

To install the data source, refer to Installation.

Get an API key from Dynatrace

To set up an API token, refer to Dynatrace API - Tokens and authentication.

To query the individual services, you need specific scopes added to your API token.

Configure the data source in Grafana

Add a data source by filling in the following fields:

Name

The name you want to apply to the Dynatrace data source.

Dynatrace API Type

The type of Dynatrace instance that you are connecting to. There are 3 options:

1. SaaS
2. Managed Cluster
3. Raw URL

Environment ID

In the SaaS example of yfc55578.live.dynatrace.com, your Environment ID would be yfc55578. In the Managed example of yd8888.managed-sprint.dynalabs.io/e/abc99984-3af2-55tt-72kl-0672983gc45, your Environment ID would be abc99984-3af2-55tt-72kl-0672983gc45, and your Domain would be yd8888.managed-sprint.dynalabs.io

Raw URL

The URL of your custom dynatrace instance. e.g. https://yfc55578.live.dynatrace.com. Raw URL allows the entry of a URL to a dynatrace instance that falls outside of either SaaS or Managed Cluster.

Dynatrace API token

An API token generated with metrics.read and entities.read permissions. Refer to Get an API key and application key from Dynatrace.

Skip TLS verify

optional Enable this option if you required to skip TLS verification. Default value: false

With CA Cert

optional Needed for verifying self-signed TLS Certs Default value: false. If enabled, you also need to provide the corresponding certificate in CA Cert section

Timeout

Defaults to 30 seconds. Configures the http client timeout between Plugin and Dynatrace.

Configure the data source with provisioning

It is possible to configure data sources using config files with Grafana’s provisioning system. To read more about how configuration works, including all the settings that you can set for data sources, refer to Provisioning Grafana.

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apiVersion: 1
datasources:
  - name: Dynatrace
    type: grafana-dynatrace-datasource
    jsonData:
      apiType: saas
      environmentId: environment Id
    secureJsonData:
      apiToken: API token
  - name: Dynatrace Managed
    type: grafana-dynatrace-datasource
    jsonData:
      apiType: managed
      environmentId: environment Id # example: abc99984-3af2-55tt-72kl-0672983gc45
      domain: domain # example: yd8888.managed-sprint.dynalabs.io
      tlsSkipVerify: false
      tlsAuthWithCACert: true
      httpClientTimeout: 360
    secureJsonData:
      apiToken: API token
      tlsCACert: |
        -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
        1221323123213123231231232+g6DAzj/11231
        sdsaas==
        -----END CERTIFICATE-----

Query the data source

The query editor allows you to configure 4 different types of dynatrace queries.

Query

The query type can be Metric, Problems, USQL, Logs, Audit Logs, Management Zones or Direct API Access.

Metric query type

Management Zone (optional)

Select management zone(s) to filter results by management zone.

Metric

Select the metric that you want to see. To get the metric list from Dynatrace again, click the Refresh button.

Aggregations

Select the aggregation you want to use for a specific metric. Click the aggregations value to change the aggregation type or click the + button to add another aggregation.

Transformations

You can select transformations in the query editor. Afterwards, enter a number of parameters into the selected transformation. Currently, only the merge transformation is supported. For information about the merge transforms, refer to Merge transformation.

Filters

The Dynatrace plugin dynamically queries the appropriate filters for each metric.

To add a filter, click the + symbol next to the Filters label on the Dynatrace query editor, select which field you would like to filter on, select the operator you would like to use, and then select a value to filter by.

The Dynatrace plugin allows you to create Filter Groups that you can join together to create complex logical comparisons. For most use cases, Filter Groups are not required.

When creating filters with Tags, regardless of the conjunction selected, Dynatrace will always use AND. Dynatrace does not support OR filters with Tags.

Alias

There are two different types of aliases you will encounter while using the Dynatrace plugin. The first is a static alias. An alias of this type is available on every query that you build, and the name of the alias starts with a lowercase letter. The second is a dynamic alias, which changes based on the metric that you are using in your query, and the name of the alias starts with an uppercase letter.

The Dynatrace plugin supports several different aliases: Metric Names, Aggregation, Display Name, Host, and Description.

Limit

Set a Limit to the size of the results. Each series will be limited by this amount.

Problems query type

Problem Query Type

Select a problem query type. Currently, only the feed problem query type is supported. For information about the feed problem query type, refer to Problems API - GET feed.

Status Filter

Filter the result problems by the status.

Impact Filter

Filter the result problems by the impact level.

Severity Filter

Filter the result problems by the severity level.

Expand Details

Include related events to the response, if set.

USQL query type

USQL Query Type

Select the USQL Query type. This query type uses the user sessions API

USQL Query

The toolbar to the left of this area has 3 options

1. Revert: Will revert your query to the latest saved query
2. Save: Saves the current query and will execute the query (Alt+S/Cmd+S/Click). The toggle switch to the right is to enable auto-save. In auto-save mode, the query will be saved as soon as you navigate away from the query editor. (ie: Hit the refresh button)
3. Add Deeplink Fields: When toggled will return deeplinked fields in the query as an additional dataset. Transformations can then be used to further massage the data.

Logs query type

Query

The log search query. The query must use the Dynatrace search query language. Example Query: log.source="/var/log/syslog" AND (loglevel="error" OR loglevel="warn")

Sort

This defines how to sort the results.

Results are filtered based on dashboard timerange automatically.

Refer the underlying API documentation here for more details and limitations.

Note: The Logs query type is in beta. Please report any unexpected behavior to the Grafana Support team. The underlying Dynatrace API is an early adopter release. The API may change in ways that are not compatible with this plugin.

Audit Logs query type

Filter

Filters the audit log. You can enter the filter query as specified in the DynaTrace API Documentation. Example Query: eventType("CREATE","UPDATE"),category("CONFIG")

Sort

This defines how to sort the results.

Results are filtered based on dashboard timerange automatically.

Refer the underlying API documentation here for more details and limitations.

Direct API Access query type

: Direct API Access allows querying any other dynatrace api endpoint, but will require that you parse out the data using JSON Path expression

API Endpoint

Enter the portion of the api endpoint starting with the version. Examples:

API Documentation	API Endpoint
Synthetics	v2/synthetic/locations
Events	v2/events

Parse using JSONPath

This is the default. When selected, the response is returned with column headers as JSON paths, making it simple to parse out individual fields if desired.

Field

Enter the JSON Path of the field to extract in the response

Type

Select the type the data should be extracted as. If using auto, the type will be automatically detected. For numbers that are within one year of the current UNIX Millisecond Epoch, the field will be of type “time”. Note that times that fail to be parsed as a time will be returned with a value of nil.

Alias

Select the Alias. When entered, the column header/name will reflect the alias entered. Currently, template variables are not supported. Leave blank to use the default, which is the JSON path.

Plus

At the far right of a field line entry, clicking the plus sign will add an additional field.

Templates and variables

To add a new Dynatrace query variable, refer to Add a query variable. Use your Dynatrace data source as your data source for the following available queries:

Query type

Select a query type. The query type associate some data with some key or descriptor.

Regex

(Optional) Filter out any of the returned values from your query with a regular expression

Note: Multi-value and Include All option are currently not supported by the Dynatrace plugin.

After creating a variable, you can find it in the Metric drop-down menu. For more information about variables, refer to Templates and variables.

Import a dashboard for Dynatrace

To import a dashboard, refer to Importing a dashboard. Imported dashboards can be found in Configuration > Data Sources > select your Dynatrace data source > select the Dashboards tab to see available pre-made dashboards.

Get the most out of the plugin

• Add Annotations.
• Configure and use Templates and variables.
• Add Transformations.
• Set up alerting; refer to Alerts overview.