Metrics API examples - List all metrics

The GET metrics endpoint provides you the ability to query multiple metrics, along with partial or even full descriptors of metrics.

This example shows how to fetch the list of all metrics in the environment with essential metadata.

The most important part is the metric key, as it is used to identify the metric. The key itself, however, doesn't provide much information about metric. To learn more about metrics, we can add this crucial information:

metric name—provides more insight into what the metric measures
unit of the metric—shows which unit the metric uses
allowed aggregations—lists the available aggregations of the metric. The API rejects request for unsupported aggregations.

Configure the request

To obtain the full list of metrics, you have to set the following query parameters:

pageSize to 500. The full list of metrics can be lengthy, so we're using the maximum possible value.
fields to displayName,unit,aggregationTypes. This removes all other fields from the payload, only keeping those we're interested in. Note that metricId is omitted here, because it is always presented in the response.

You can get the response in two formats:

JSON: set the Accept header of the request to application/json.
CSV table: set the Accept header of the request to text/csv; header=present. If you're not interested in the header row, use text/csv; header=absent.

To authenticate the request, set the Authorization header of the request to Api-token {your-token}. The token must have the Read metrics (metrics.read) permission.

Curl

Here's the Curl code of the request. Make sure to use the URL of your own environment and a real API token.

JSON payload

curl -L -X GET 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics?fields=displayName,unit,aggregationTypes&pageSize=500' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \
-H 'Accept: application/json'

CSV table payload

curl -L -X GET 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics?fields=displayName,unit,aggregationTypes&pageSize=500' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \
-H 'Accept: text/csv; header=present'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics?fields=displayName,unit,aggregationTypes&pageSize=500

Response

The full list of metrics is too lengthy, so in each case it is truncated to the same 3 entries.

JSON payload

{
  "totalCount": 1812,
  "nextPageKey": null,
  "metrics": [
    {
      "metricId": "builtin:apps.other.apdex.osAndVersion",
      "displayName": "Apdex (by os and app version)",
      "unit": "NotApplicable",
      "aggregationTypes": [
        "auto",
        "value"
      ]
    },
    {
      "metricId": "builtin:apps.other.keyUserActions.requestErrorCount.os",
      "displayName": "Request error count (by os)",
      "unit": "Count",
      "aggregationTypes": [
        "auto",
        "value"
      ]
    },
    {
      "metricId": "builtin:tech.activemq.CurrentConnectionsCount",
      "displayName": "Current connections count",
      "unit": "Count",
      "aggregationTypes": [
        "auto",
        "avg",
        "count",
        "max",
        "min",
        "sum"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

CSV table payload

metricId,displayName,unit,aggregationTypes
builtin:apps.other.apdex.osAndVersion,Apdex (by os and app version),NotApplicable,"[auto, value]"
builtin:apps.other.keyUserActions.requestErrorCount.os,Request error count (by os),Count,"[auto, value]"
builtin:tech.activemq.CurrentConnectionsCount,Current connections count,Count,"[auto, avg, count, max, min, sum]"