Metric events anomaly detection API - POST an event

This API is deprecated. Use the Settings API instead. Look for the Metric events (builtin:anomaly-detection.metric-events) schema.

Creates a new metric event rule.

The request consumes and produces an application/json payload.

POSTSaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/anomalyDetection/metricEvents
Environment ActiveGatehttps://{your-activegate-domain}:9999/e/{your-environment-id}/api/config/v1/anomalyDetection/metricEvents

Authentication

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

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

Parameters

To find all JSON models that depend on the type of the model, refer to JSON models.

Parameter
Type
Description
In
Required
body

The JSON body of the request. Contains parameters of the new metric event.

body
optional

Request body objects

The MetricEvent object

The configuration of the metric event.

Element
Type
Description
Required
aggregationType
string

How the metric data points are aggregated for the evaluation.

The timeseries must support this aggregation.

  • AVG
  • COUNT
  • MAX
  • MEDIAN
  • MIN
  • P90
  • SUM
  • VALUE
optional
alertingScope

Defines the scope of the metric event. Only one filter is allowed per filter type, except for tags, where up to 3 are allowed. The filters are combined by conjunction.

optional
description
string

The description of the metric event.

required
disabledReason
string

The reason of automatic disabling.

The NONE means config was not disabled automatically.

  • METRIC_DEFINITION_INCONSISTENCY
  • NONE
  • TOO_MANY_DIMS
optional
enabled
boolean

The metric event is enabled (true) or disabled (false).

required
id
string

The ID of the metric event.

optional
metadata

Metadata useful for debugging

optional
metricDimensions

Defines the dimensions of the metric to alert on. The filters are combined by conjunction.

optional
metricId
string

The ID of the metric evaluated by the metric event.

optional
metricSelector
string

The metric selector that should be executed.

optional
monitoringStrategy

A monitoring strategy for a metric event config.

This is the base version of the monitoring strategy, depending on the type, the actual JSON may contain additional fields.

required
name
string

The name of the metric event displayed in the UI.

required
primaryDimensionKey
string

Defines which dimension key should be used for the alertingScope.

optional
queryOffset
integer

Defines the query offset to adapt the evaluation timeframe for known metric latency.

optional
severity
string

The type of the event to trigger on the threshold violation.

The CUSTOM_ALERT type is not correlated with other alerts. The INFO type does not open a problem.

  • AVAILABILITY
  • CUSTOM_ALERT
  • ERROR
  • INFO
  • PERFORMANCE
  • RESOURCE_CONTENTION
optional
warningReason
string

The reason of a warning set on the config.

The NONE means config has no warnings.

  • NONE
optional

The MetricEventAlertingScope object

A single filter for the alerting scope.

The actual set of fields depends on type of the filter. Find the list of actual objects in the description of the filterType field or see Metric events anomaly detection API - JSON models.

Element
Type
Description
Required
filterType
string

Defines the actual set of fields depending on the value. See one of the following objects:

  • ENTITY_ID -> EntityIdAlertingScope
  • MANAGEMENT_ZONE -> ManagementZoneAlertingScope
  • TAG -> TagFilterAlertingScope
  • NAME -> NameAlertingScope
  • CUSTOM_DEVICE_GROUP_NAME -> CustomDeviceGroupNameAlertingScope
  • HOST_GROUP_NAME -> HostGroupNameAlertingScope
  • HOST_NAME -> HostNameAlertingScope
  • PROCESS_GROUP_ID -> ProcessGroupIdAlertingScope
  • PROCESS_GROUP_NAME -> ProcessGroupNameAlertingScope
  • CUSTOM_DEVICE_GROUP_NAME
  • ENTITY_ID
  • HOST_GROUP_NAME
  • HOST_NAME
  • MANAGEMENT_ZONE
  • NAME
  • PROCESS_GROUP_ID
  • PROCESS_GROUP_NAME
  • TAG
required

The ConfigurationMetadata object

Metadata useful for debugging

Element
Type
Description
Required
clusterVersion
string

Dynatrace version.

optional
configurationVersions
integer[]

A sorted list of the version numbers of the configuration.

optional
currentConfigurationVersions
string[]

A sorted list of version numbers of the configuration.

optional

The MetricEventDimensions object

A single filter for the metrics dimensions.

The actual set of fields depends on type of the filter. Find the list of actual objects in the description of the filterType field or see Metric events anomaly detection API - JSON models.

Element
Type
Description
Required
filterType
string

Defines the actual set of fields depending on the value. See one of the following objects:

  • ENTITY -> MetricEventEntityDimensions
  • STRING -> MetricEventStringDimensions
  • ENTITY
  • STRING
required
key
string

The dimensions key on the metric.

optional

The MetricEventMonitoringStrategy object

A monitoring strategy for a metric event config.

This is the base version of the monitoring strategy, depending on the type, the actual JSON may contain additional fields.

Element
Type
Description
Required
type
string

Defines the actual set of fields depending on the value. See one of the following objects:

  • STATIC_THRESHOLD -> MetricEventStaticThresholdMonitoringStrategy
  • AUTO_ADAPTIVE_BASELINE -> MetricEventAutoAdaptiveBaselineMonitoringStrategy
  • AUTO_ADAPTIVE_BASELINE
  • STATIC_THRESHOLD
required

Request body JSON model

This is a model of the request body, showing the possible elements. It has to be adjusted for usage in an actual request.

{
  "aggregationType": "AVG",
  "alertingScope": [
    {
      "entityId": "HOST-000000000001E240",
      "filterType": "ENTITY_ID"
    },
    {
      "filterType": "TAG",
      "tagFilter": {
        "context": "CONTEXTLESS",
        "key": "someKey",
        "value": "someValue"
      }
    }
  ],
  "description": "This is the description for my metric event.",
  "disabledReason": "NONE",
  "enabled": true,
  "metadata": {
    "clusterVersion": "Mock version",
    "configurationVersions": [
      4,
      2
    ]
  },
  "metricDimensions": [
    {
      "filterType": "ENTITY",
      "key": "dt.entity.disk",
      "nameFilter": {
        "operator": "EQUALS",
        "value": "diskName"
      }
    }
  ],
  "metricId": "com.dynatrace.builtin:host.disk.bytesread",
  "monitoringStrategy": {
    "alertCondition": "ABOVE",
    "dealertingSamples": 5,
    "samples": 5,
    "threshold": 80,
    "type": "STATIC_THRESHOLD",
    "unit": "KILO_BYTE_PER_SECOND",
    "violatingSamples": 3
  },
  "name": "My metric event",
  "severity": "CUSTOM_ALERT",
  "warningReason": "NONE"
}

Response

Response codes

Code
Type
Description
201

Success. The metric event has been created. The response contains the ID and name of the newly created metric event

400

Failed. The input is invalid.

Response body objects

The EntityShortRepresentation object

The short representation of a Dynatrace entity.

Element
Type
Description
description
string

A short description of the Dynatrace entity.

id
string

The ID of the Dynatrace entity.

name
string

The name of the Dynatrace entity.

Response body JSON model

{
  "description": "Dynatrace entity for the REST API example",
  "id": "6a98d7bc-abb9-44f8-ae6a-73e68e71812a",
  "name": "Dynatrace entity"
}

Validate payload

We recommend that you validate the payload before submitting it with an actual request. A response code of 204 indicates a valid payload.

The request consumes an application/json payload.

POSTSaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/anomalyDetection/metricEvents/validator
Environment ActiveGatehttps://{your-activegate-domain}:9999/e/{your-environment-id}/api/config/v1/anomalyDetection/metricEvents/validator

Authentication

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

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

Response

Response codes

Code
Type
Description
204
-

Validated. The submitted configuration is valid. Response doesn't have a body.

400

Failed. The input is invalid.

Example

In this example, the request creates a custom alert that triggers if free disk space drops below 3% in 3 out of 5 samples. The scope of the alert is all hosts.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

You can download or copy the example request body to try it out on your own.

Curl

curl -X POST \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/anomalyDetection/metricEvents \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "metricId": "com.dynatrace.builtin:host.disk.freespacepercentage",
  "name": "Low disk space",
  "description": "The available disk space is below 3%",
  "aggregationType": "AVG",
  "eventType": "CUSTOM_ALERT",
  "alertCondition": "BELOW",
  "samples": 5,
  "violatingSamples": 3,
  "dealertingSamples": 5,
  "threshold": 3,
  "enabled": true,
  "tagFilters": []
}
'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/anomalyDetection/metricEvents

Request body

{
  "metricId": "com.dynatrace.builtin:host.disk.freespacepercentage",
  "name": "Low disk space",
  "description": "The available disk space is below 3%",
  "aggregationType": "AVG",
  "eventType": "CUSTOM_ALERT",
  "alertCondition": "BELOW",
  "samples": 5,
  "violatingSamples": 3,
  "dealertingSamples": 5,
  "threshold": 3,
  "enabled": true,
  "tagFilters": []
}

Response body

{
  "id": "1b06b18a-82df-4e18-a4aa-d4543b227734",
  "name": "Low disk space",
  "description": "The available disk space is below 3%"
}

Response code

204

Result

The new rule looks like this in the UI:

Metric event rule - new

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