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Dynatrace Saas/Managed importer

Versio.io can import, historize and process monitoring data from Dynatrace SaaS / Managed.

Configuration

You can find the configuration option in Versio.io at Environment settings > OneImporter > Configurations > Dynatrace.

Here you can edit all existing configurations, create new configurations or delete existing configurations. To add a new configuration enter a Name for your importer and an Entity suffix (default: -dynatrace) to clearly identify your Dynatrace entities.
Note that the Entity suffix is fixed and cannot be changed afterwards.

Click Add to proceed to the configuration.

To edit an existing configurations click the arrow on the left of your importer name to expand the configuration options.

Following configuration options are available:

Field Description Advice
Name Meaningful name Add the word "Dynatrace" to identify importer when viewing the logs
Active Option to activate and deactivate the configuration. Data is only imported if the configuration is activated.
Server URL Dynatrace server URL to get data from URL for SaaS and Managed differs
Examples given below: Replace with your own ID or domain
API token Enter your Dynatrace API token See paragraph below for API token generation in Dynatrace
Entities Select all required entities
Executing OneImporter Select a Versio.io OneImporter to import the data based on the importer configuration. Requires installed OneImporter: Installation instruction
Schedule time (cron format) Determine the frequency of imports in CRON format Learn more about CRON format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

Table: Dynatrace configuration parameters

 

The following image is an example of a Dynatrace configuration:

Versio.io Dynatrace importer configuration Figure: Example of a Versio.io Dynatrace configuration

Dynatrace API Token

Versio.io can import, historize and process monitoring data from Dynatrace SaaS / Managed. An API token is required to access your Dynatrace Tenant.

The following permissions are required to import the corresponding entities from Dynatrace to Versio.io:

Permission Group Entities
Access problem and event feed,
metrics and topolgy
Topology Host
Process
Process group
Service
Application
Anomaly detection configuration Application
VMWare
Environment Event
Problem
Threshold
Read configuration Anomaly detection configuration AWS
Host
Service
Database
Configuration Management zone
Configure maintenance windows Configuration Maintenance
Read synthetic monitors, locations
and nodes
Environment Synthetic location
Synthetic node
Token management Environment Token

The following graphic shows an example configuration of an API token in Dynatrace:

Configure a Dynatrace API Token for Versio.io integration

Example

The Versio.io OneImporter imports Dynatrace data based on a specific configuration into entities with a suffix defined by you (default: -dynatrace). To view the imported instances in Versio.io, select 'Asset & Configuration Repository → Instance Viewer'. There you can select your specific instance and click it for a detailed view in the instance history viewer.

The following image is an example of imported Dynatrace data:

Versio.io Dynatrace instance overview
Figure: Overview of Versio.io Dynatrace instance (left) and topology of related instances (right)

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