Convert Dynatrace Browser Monitors to Public HTTP Monitor
This is a program used to convert Dynatrace Synthetic Browser Monitors that are just used for availability monitoring and the only thing stopping them from using HTTP Monitors at the time was that there weren't any public location http monitors at the time.
That has all changed as of June 2020 for Dynatrace SaaS customers. Now you can use public locations but there isn't an easy way to convert over your browser monitors that were just being used at the time for that purpose as well as transfer things associated with the browser monitor like Maintenence windows etc.
Use Cases
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Convert all "blank page" monitors that are really just used for SLAs while changing frequency to make them all more frequent.
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Open the budget for other things DEM by making pages that aren't fully utilizing browser monitor capabilities into HTTP monitors
Prerequisites
- Python Version >= 3.6
- Requests Module (Found in
requirements.txtandPipfile) - Dynatrace API Token with the Following Access Turned On:
Create and read synthetic monitors, locations, and nodesRead configurationWrite ConfigurationRead Credential Vault entries
Optional
- Pipenv - Used for Pipfile and virtual environments.
Usage for Converting Timeout
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You can run this program by running
python change_http_monitors.py [url] [api-token] --[options] -
Download requests module with
pip install -r requirements.txtafter going into a virtual environment(or not I'm not your boss)
positional arguments: url tenant url with SaaS format: https://[tenant_key].live.dynatrace.com OR Managed: https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id} token Your API Token generated with access
optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -q, --quiet no output printed to the terminal --debug prints better logging message -l, --list list the management zone names and IDs, as well as HTTP location names and IDs --timeout TIMEOUT Sets the HTTP Monitor Request Timeout between 0 and 60 --convert_disabled also includes values that are disabled
--exclude-tag EXCLUDE_TAG add tags that you want excluded from being transferred over, each tag you want excluded use the arg again --include_tag INCLUDE_TAG Add tags that you want included to be transferred over as well. If you have a management zone listed, that will take priority and only include things in that management zone. Multiple tags require multiple args added. For Example: --include-tag Retail Advisor --include-tag Retail
-m MANAGEMENT_ZONE, --management_zone MANAGEMENT_ZONE Management Zone to select, use the --list feature to get the MZ IDs if you don't know them already. -s SELECT_MONITOR_ID [SELECT_MONITOR_ID ...], --select_monitor_id SELECT_MONITOR_ID [SELECT_MONITOR_ID ...] Gets a single browser monitor and converts that to an HTTP monitor. Can add multiple Ids by listing with a space inbetween or calling the -s again
Usage for HTTP to Browser
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Download requests module with
pip install -r requirements.txtafter going into a virtual environment(or not I'm not your boss) -
You can run this program by running
python convert_browser_to_http.py [url] [api-token] --[options] -
More details on specifics found below.
usage: convert_browser_to_http.py [-h] [-q | --debug] [-l]
[--convert_disabled]
[--location LOCATION [LOCATION ...]]
[--overwrite] [--exclude-tag EXCLUDE_TAG]
[--include_tag INCLUDE_TAG] [-f FREQUENCY]
[-k | --delete | -d | --dry_run]
[-m MANAGEMENT_ZONE | -a | -s SELECT_MONITOR_ID [SELECT_MONITOR_ID ...]]
url token
Convert Browser Monitors to HTTP Monitors
positional arguments:
url tenant url with SaaS format:
https://[tenant_key].live.dynatrace.com OR Managed:
https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}
token Your API Token generated with access
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-q, --quiet no output printed to the terminal
--debug prints better logging message
-l, --list list the management zone names and IDs, as well as
HTTP location names and IDs
--convert_disabled also includes values that are disabled
--location LOCATION [LOCATION ...]
Add locations that you would like to use for
--overwrite If there is an existing HTTP Monitor with the same
name, overwrite it
--exclude-tag EXCLUDE_TAG
add tags that you want excluded from being transferred
over, each tag you want excluded use the arg again
--include_tag INCLUDE_TAG
Add tags that you want included to be transferred over
as well. If you have a management zone listed, that
will take priority and only include things in that
management zone. Multiple tags require multiple args
added. For Example: --include-tag Retail Advisor
--include-tag Retail
-f FREQUENCY, --frequency FREQUENCY
sets the frequency of the new monitors, if not listed
it will just use the same times they had from before.
insert number as integer in minutes. values available:
5,10,15,30,60,120,180
-k, --keep_old doesn't disable the old browser monitors so you have
two running concurrently
--delete Deletes the old browser monitor
-d, --disable Disables old browser monitors but still keeps them
there
--dry_run Doesn't actually post but does everything else to see
if there would be an error
-m MANAGEMENT_ZONE, --management_zone MANAGEMENT_ZONE
Management Zone to select, use the --list feature to
get the MZ IDs if you don't know them already.
-a, --all Selects all browser monitors in the environment, USE
WITH CAUTION will raise exception if it's not with any
other filters listed
-s SELECT_MONITOR_ID [SELECT_MONITOR_ID ...], --select_monitor_id SELECT_MONITOR_ID [SELECT_MONITOR_ID ...]
Gets a single browser monitor and converts that to an
HTTP monitor. Can add multiple Ids by listing with a
space inbetween or calling the -s again