Synthetic locations API v2 - GET a location

Gets parameters of the specified location.

The request produces an application/json payload.

GETSaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/{locationId}
Environment ActiveGateCluster ActiveGatehttps://{your-activegate-domain}:9999/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/synthetic/locations/{locationId}

Authentication

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

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

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionInRequired
locationIdstring

The Dynatrace entity ID of the required location.

pathrequired

Response

To find all model variations that depend on the type of the model, see JSON models.

Response codes

CodeTypeDescription
200SyntheticLocation

Success. The response contains parameters of the synthetic location.

4XXErrorEnvelope

Client side error.

5XXErrorEnvelope

Server side error.

Response body objects

The SyntheticLocation object

Configuration of a synthetic location.

countryCode, regionCode, city parameters are optional as they can be retrieved based on latitude and longitude of location.

The actual set of fields depends on the type of the location. Find the list of actual objects in the description of the type field or see Synthetic locations API v2 - JSON models.

ElementTypeDescription
citystring

The city of the location.

countryCodestring

The country code of the location.

To fetch the list of available country codes, use the GET all countries request.

entityIdstring

The Dynatrace entity ID of the location.

geoLocationIdstring

The Dynatrace GeoLocation ID of the location.

latitudenumber

The latitude of the location in DDD.dddd format.

longitudenumber

The longitude of the location in DDD.dddd format.

namestring

The name of the location.

regionCodestring

The region code of the location.

To fetch the list of available region codes, use the GET regions of the country request.

statusstring

The status of the location:

  • ENABLED: The location is displayed as active in the UI. You can assign monitors to the location.
  • DISABLED: The location is displayed as inactive in the UI. You can't assign monitors to the location. Monitors already assigned to the location will stay there and will be executed from the location.
  • HIDDEN: The location is not displayed in the UI. You can't assign monitors to the location. You can only set location as HIDDEN when no monitor is assigned to it.
  • DISABLED
  • ENABLED
  • HIDDEN
typestring

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

  • PUBLIC -> PublicSyntheticLocation
  • PRIVATE -> PrivateSyntheticLocation
  • CLUSTER -> PrivateSyntheticLocation
  • CLUSTER
  • PRIVATE
  • PUBLIC

Response body JSON model

{
  "city": "string",
  "countryCode": "string",
  "entityId": "string",
  "geoLocationId": "string",
  "latitude": 1,
  "longitude": 1,
  "name": "string",
  "regionCode": "string",
  "status": "DISABLED",
  "type": "CLUSTER"
}

Example - public location

In this example, the request gets the details of the Amazon US East (N. Virginia) public location, which has the ID of SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064.

Curl

curl -X GET \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064 \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064

Response body

{
  "entityId": "SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-0000000000000064",
  "type": "PUBLIC",
  "name": "Gdańsk",
  "countryCode": "PL",
  "regionCode": "EU",
  "city": "Gdańsk",
  "latitude": 54.399078,
  "longitude": 18.576557,
  "status": "ENABLED",
  "cloudPlatform": "OTHER",
  "ips": [
    "120.157.221.247",
    "172.158.6.93",
    "197.136.70.30",
    "227.53.205.237",
    "131.123.197.12"
  ],
  "stage": "GA",
  "browserType": "Chrome",
  "browserVersion": "83.0.4103.61",
  "capabilities": [
    "BROWSER",
    "HTTP"
  ],
  "geoLocationId": "GEOLOCATION-0A41430434C388A9"
}

Response code

200

Example - private location

In this example, the request gets the details of the Linz HTTP private location, which has the ID of SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5.

Curl

curl -X GET \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5 \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/synthetic/locations/SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5

Response body

{
  "entityId": "SYNTHETIC_LOCATION-BB5EE23C1D48AFF5",
  "type": "PRIVATE",
  "name": "Linz HTTP",
  "countryCode": "AT",
  "regionCode": "04",
  "city": "Linz",
  "latitude": 48.306351,
  "longitude": 14.287399,
  "status": "ENABLED",
  "nodes": [
    "137829320"
  ],
  "availabilityLocationOutage": false,
  "availabilityNodeOutage": false,
  "locationNodeOutageDelayInMillis": 3000,
  "geoLocationId": "GEOLOCATION-427705B3488A4C45"
}

Response code

200

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