Process groups API - GET all process groups

  • Reference
  • Deprecated

This API is deprecated. Use the Monitored entities API instead. You can find more information about switching to the new API in the migration guide.

Gets the list of all process groups in your Dynatrace environment, along with their parameters and relationships.

The full list can be lengthy, so you can narrow it down by specifying filter parameters, like tags. See the Parameters section for more details.

You can additionally limit the output by using the pagination:

  1. Specify the number of results per page in the pageSize query parameter.
  2. Then use the cursor from the Next-Page-Key response header in the nextPageKey query parameter to obtain subsequent pages.

The request produces an application/json payload.

GETSaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/entity/infrastructure/process-groups
Environment ActiveGatehttps://{your-activegate-domain}:9999/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v1/entity/infrastructure/process-groups

Authentication

To execute this request, you need an access token with DataExport scope.

To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

The timeframe is restricted to a maximum period of 3 days.

ParameterTypeDescriptionInRequired
startTimestampinteger

The start timestamp of the requested timeframe, in milliseconds (UTC).

If not set, then 72 hours behind from now is used.

queryoptional
endTimestampinteger

The end timestamp of the requested timeframe, in milliseconds (UTC).

If not set, then the current timestamp is used.

The timeframe must not exceed 3 days.

queryoptional
relativeTimestring

The relative timeframe, back from now.

  • min
  • 5mins
  • 10mins
  • 15mins
  • 30mins
  • hour
  • 2hours
  • 6hours
  • day
  • 3days
queryoptional
tagstring[]

Filters the resulting set of process groups by the specified tag. You can specify several tags in the following format: tag=tag1&tag=tag2. The process group has to match all the specified tags.

In case of key-value tags, such as imported AWS or CloudFoundry tags, use the following format: tag=[context]key:value. For custom key-value tags, omit the context: tag=key:value.

queryoptional
entitystring[]

Filters result to the specified process groups only.

To specify several process groups use the following format: entity=ID1&entity=ID2.

queryoptional
hoststring[]

Filters process groups by the host they're running at.

Specify Dynatrace IDs of the host you're interested in.

To specify several hosts use the following format: host=hostID1&host=hostID2.

The OR logic applies.

queryoptional
managementZoneinteger

Only return process groups that are part of the specified management zone.

queryoptional
includeDetailsboolean

Includes (true) or excludes (false) details which are queried from related entities.

Excluding details may make queries faster.

If not set, then true is used.

queryoptional
pageSizeinteger

The number of process groups per result page.

If not set, pagination is not used and the result contains all process groups fitting the specified filtering criteria.

queryoptional
nextPageKeystring

The cursor for the next page of results. You can find it in the Next-Page-Key header of the previous response.

If you're using pagination, the first page is always returned without this cursor.

You must keep all other query parameters as they were in the first request to obtain subsequent pages.

queryoptional

Response headers

Header
Type
Description
Total-Count
integer
The estimated number of results.
Next-Page-Key
string
The cursor for the next page of results. Without it you'll get the first page again.
Page-Size
string
The maximum number of results per page.

Response

Response codes

CodeTypeDescription
200ProcessGroup[]

Success

400ErrorEnvelope

Failed. The input is invalid.

4XXErrorEnvelope

Client side error.

5XXErrorEnvelope

Server side error.

Response body objects

The ResponseBody object

The ProcessGroup object

Parameters of a process group.

ElementTypeDescription
azureHostNamestring-
azureSiteNamestring-
customizedNamestring

The customized name of the entity

discoveredNamestring

The discovered name of the entity

displayNamestring

The name of the Dynatrace entity as displayed in the UI.

entityIdstring

The Dynatrace entity ID of the required entity.

firstSeenTimestampinteger

The timestamp of when the entity was first detected, in UTC milliseconds

fromRelationshipsobject-
lastSeenTimestampinteger

The timestamp of when the entity was last detected, in UTC milliseconds

listenPortsinteger[]-
managementZonesEntityShortRepresentation[]

The management zones that the entity is part of.

metadataobject-
softwareTechnologiesTechnologyInfo[]-
tagsTagInfo[]

The list of entity tags.

toRelationshipsobject-

The EntityShortRepresentation object

The short representation of a Dynatrace entity.

ElementTypeDescription
descriptionstring

A short description of the Dynatrace entity.

idstring

The ID of the Dynatrace entity.

namestring

The name of the Dynatrace entity.

The TechnologyInfo object

ElementTypeDescription
editionstring-
typestring-
versionstring-

The TagInfo object

Tag of a Dynatrace entity.

ElementTypeDescription
contextstring

The origin of the tag, such as AWS or Cloud Foundry.

Custom tags use the CONTEXTLESS value.

  • AWS
  • AWS_GENERIC
  • AZURE
  • CLOUD_FOUNDRY
  • CONTEXTLESS
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • GOOGLE_CLOUD
  • KUBERNETES
keystring

The key of the tag.

Custom tags have the tag value here.

valuestring

The value of the tag.

Not applicable to custom tags.

Response body JSON model

[
{
"azureHostName": "string",
"azureSiteName": "string",
"customizedName": "string",
"discoveredName": "string",
"displayName": "string",
"entityId": "string",
"firstSeenTimestamp": 1,
"fromRelationships": {
"isNetworkClientOfProcessGroup": [
"string"
],
"runsOn": [
"string"
]
},
"lastSeenTimestamp": 1,
"listenPorts": [
1
],
"managementZones": [
{
"description": "Dynatrace entity for the REST API example",
"id": "6a98d7bc-abb9-44f8-ae6a-73e68e71812a",
"name": "Dynatrace entity"
}
],
"metadata": {
"adobe.em.env_type": [
"string"
],
"adobe.em.program": [
"string"
],
"adobe.em.service": [
"string"
],
"adobe.em.tier": [
"string"
],
"agentValueMetadata": {},
"apacheConfigPaths": [
"string"
],
"apacheSparkMasterIpAddresses": [
"string"
],
"aspDotNetCoreApplicationPaths": [
"string"
],
"awsEcrImageAccountIds": [
"string"
],
"awsEcrImageRegions": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsCluster": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsContainerARN": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsContainerName": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsDockerID": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsDockerName": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsFamily": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsRevision": [
"string"
],
"awsEcsTaskARN": [
"string"
],
"awsLambdaFunctionNames": [
"string"
],
"awsRegions": [
"string"
],
"azure.containerapp.hostname": [
"string"
],
"azure.containerapp.replica.name": [
"string"
],
"azure.servicefabric.application.id": [
"string"
],
"azure.servicefabric.application.name": [
"string"
],
"azure.servicefabric.codepackage.name": [
"string"
],
"azure.servicefabric.hostedservice.name": [
"string"
],
"azure.servicefabric.instance.id": [
"string"
],
"azure.servicefabric.replica.id": [
"string"
],
"azure.servicefabric.servicepackage.name": [
"string"
],
"azure.spring.application.name": [
"string"
],
"azure.spring.cloudconfiguri": [
"string"
],
"azure.website.instance.id": [
"string"
],
"azure.website.owner.name": [
"string"
],
"azure.website.site.name": [
"string"
],
"cassandraClusterNames": [
"string"
],
"catalinaBaseValues": [
"string"
],
"catalinaHomeValues": [
"string"
],
"cloudFoundryAppIds": [
"string"
],
"cloudFoundryAppNames": [
"string"
],
"cloudFoundryInstanceIndexes": [
"string"
],
"cloudFoundrySpaceIds": [
"string"
],
"cloudFoundrySpaceNames": [
"string"
],
"cloudfoundryMetadata": {},
"coldfusionJvmConfigFiles": [
"string"
],
"commandLineArgs": [
"string"
],
"datasourceMonitoringConfigId": [
"string"
],
"declarativeConfigRuleId": [
"string"
],
"declarativeId": [
"string"
],
"dockerContainerIds": [
"string"
],
"dockerContainerImageNames": [
"string"
],
"dockerContainerImageVersions": [
"string"
],
"dockerContainerNames": [
"string"
],
"dotNetCommands": [
"string"
],
"dotnetCommandPath": [
"string"
],
"dynatraceClusterIds": [
"string"
],
"dynatraceNodeIds": [
"string"
],
"elasticSearchClusterNames": [
"string"
],
"elasticSearchNodeNames": [
"string"
],
"envVariables": {},
"equinoxConfigPath": [
"string"
],
"executablePaths": [
"string"
],
"executables": [
"string"
],
"glassfishDomainNames": [
"string"
],
"glassfishInstanceNames": [
"string"
],
"google.appengine.version": [
"string"
],
"google.cloudrun.execution": [
"string"
],
"google.cloudrun.job": [
"string"
],
"google.cloudrun.revision": [
"string"
],
"googleAppEngineInstances": [
"string"
],
"googleAppEngineServices": [
"string"
],
"googleCloudInstanceId": [
"string"
],
"googleCloudInstanceRegion": [
"string"
],
"googleCloudProjects": [
"string"
],
"googleCloudRunService": [
"string"
],
"googleComputeEngineMetadata": {},
"heroku.appdefaultdomainname": [
"string"
],
"heroku.dyno": [
"string"
],
"heroku.releaseversion": [
"string"
],
"hostGroups": [
"string"
],
"hybrisBinDirectories": [
"string"
],
"hybrisConfigDirectories": [
"string"
],
"hybrisDataDirectories": [
"string"
],
"ibmApplid": [
"string"
],
"ibmCicsRegion": [
"string"
],
"ibmCtgName": [
"string"
],
"ibmImsConnectRegions": [
"string"
],
"ibmImsControlRegions": [
"string"
],
"ibmImsMessageProcessingRegions": [
"string"
],
"ibmImsSoapGwName": [
"string"
],
"ibmIntegrationNodeName": [
"string"
],
"ibmIntegrationServerName": [
"string"
],
"ibmJobName": [
"string"
],
"iisAppPools": [
"string"
],
"iisRoleNames": [
"string"
],
"javaJarFiles": [
"string"
],
"javaJarPaths": [
"string"
],
"javaMainClasses": [
"string"
],
"javaMainModules": [
"string"
],
"jbossHomes": [
"string"
],
"jbossModes": [
"string"
],
"jbossServerNames": [
"string"
],
"kubernetesAnnotations": {},
"kubernetesBasePodNames": [
"string"
],
"kubernetesClusterId": [
"string"
],
"kubernetesContainerNames": [
"string"
],
"kubernetesFullPodNames": [
"string"
],
"kubernetesNamespaces": [
"string"
],
"kubernetesPodUids": [
"string"
],
"kubernetesRuleResult": [
"string"
],
"linkage": [
"string"
],
"mssqlInstanceName": [
"string"
],
"nodejsAppBaseDirectories": [
"string"
],
"nodejsAppNames": [
"string"
],
"nodejsScriptNames": [
"string"
],
"oracleSid": [
"string"
],
"osagent.groupIdName": [
"string"
],
"osagent.instanceIdName": [
"string"
],
"phpScripts": [
"string"
],
"phpWorkingDirectories": [
"string"
],
"pluginMetadata": {},
"rke2Type": [
"string"
],
"rubyAppRootPaths": [
"string"
],
"rubyScriptPaths": [
"string"
],
"ruleResult": [
"string"
],
"serviceNames": [
"string"
],
"softwareAgInstallRoot": [
"string"
],
"softwareAgProductPropertyName": [
"string"
],
"springBootAppName": [
"string"
],
"springBootProfileName": [
"string"
],
"springBootStartupClass": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBWEnginePropertyFilePaths": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBusinessWorksAppNodeName": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBusinessWorksAppSpaceName": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBusinessWorksCeAppName": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBusinessWorksCeVersion": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBusinessWorksDomainName": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBusinessWorksEnginePropertyFiles": [
"string"
],
"tibcoBusinessWorksHome": [
"string"
],
"varnishInstanceNames": [
"string"
],
"weblogicClusterNames": [
"string"
],
"weblogicDomainNames": [
"string"
],
"weblogicHomeValues": [
"string"
],
"weblogicNames": [
"string"
],
"websphereCellNames": [
"string"
],
"websphereClusterNames": [
"string"
],
"websphereLibertyServerName": [
"string"
],
"websphereNodeNames": [
"string"
],
"websphereServerNames": [
"string"
],
"zCodeModuleVersion": [
"string"
]
},
"softwareTechnologies": [
{
"edition": "string",
"type": "string",
"version": "string"
}
],
"tags": [
{
"context": "AWS",
"key": "string",
"value": "string"
}
],
"toRelationships": {
"isInstanceOf": [
"string"
],
"isNetworkClientOfProcessGroup": [
"string"
],
"runsOn": [
"string"
]
}
}
]

Example

In this example, the request lists all the process groups of the environment detected within the last 5 minutes.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

The result is truncated to two entries.

Curl

curl -X GET \
'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/entity/infrastructure/process-groups?relativeTime=5mins' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/entity/infrastructure/process-groups?relativeTime=5mins

Response body

[
{
"entityId": "PROCESS_GROUP-B34081EFF9E5F516",
"displayName": "Apache Web Server apache2",
"discoveredName": "Apache Web Server apache2",
"firstSeenTimestamp": 1405316247660,
"lastSeenTimestamp": 1545149212556,
"tags": [],
"fromRelationships": {},
"toRelationships": {
"runsOn": [
"SERVICE-B8C88BAA442098CF"
]
},
"metadata": {
"commandLineArgs": [
"/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start"
],
"executables": [
"apache2"
],
"executablePaths": [
"/usr/sbin/apache2"
],
"apacheConfigPaths": [
"/etc/apache2/apache2.conf"
]
},
"softwareTechnologies": [
{
"type": "PHP",
"edition": "Apache",
"version": "5.5.9"
},
{
"type": "APACHE_HTTPD",
"edition": null,
"version": "2.4.7"
},
{
"type": "SQLITE",
"edition": null,
"version": null
}
]
},
{
"entityId": "PROCESS_GROUP-E5C3CC7EC1F80B5B",
"displayName": "PHP-FPM",
"discoveredName": "PHP-FPM",
"firstSeenTimestamp": 1503909407206,
"lastSeenTimestamp": 1545149349700,
"tags": [],
"fromRelationships": {
"runsOn": [
"HOST-74CDC8809AD43931",
"HOST-9A81EACCA0270218"
]
},
"toRelationships": {
"isInstanceOf": [
"PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE-7E988C3503AE8803"
],
"isNetworkClientOfProcessGroup": [
"PROCESS_GROUP-49C926A7091830E3"
],
"runsOn": [
"SERVICE-72503CBDD2AEF066"
]
},
"metadata": {
"hostGroups": [
"authoring"
],
"commandLineArgs": [
"/usr/sbin/php-fpm7.0 --nodaemonize --fpm-config /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf"
],
"executables": [
"php-fpm7.0"
],
"executablePaths": [
"/usr/sbin/php-fpm7.0"
]
},
"softwareTechnologies": [
{
"type": "SQLITE",
"edition": null,
"version": null
},
{
"type": "PHP",
"edition": "FPM",
"version": "7.0.32"
},
{
"type": "PHP_FPM",
"edition": null,
"version": null
}
]
}
]

Response code

200