Processes API - GET a process

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 parameters of the specified process.

The request produces an application/json payload.

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

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

Parameter
Type
Description
In
Required
meIdentifier
string

The Dynatrace entity ID of the required process.

path
required

Response

Response codes

Code
Type
Description
200

Success

4XX

Client side error.

5XX

Server side error.

Response body objects

The ProcessGroupInstance object

Parameters of a process.

Element
Type
Description
agentVersions

Versions of OneAgents currently running on the entity.

azureHostName
string
-
azureSiteName
string
-
bitness
string
-
  • 32bit
  • 64bit
customizedName
string

The customized name of the entity

discoveredName
string

The discovered name of the entity

displayName
string

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

entityId
string

The Dynatrace entity ID of the required entity.

firstSeenTimestamp
integer

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

fromRelationships
object
-
lastSeenTimestamp
integer

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

listenPorts
integer[]
-
managementZones

The management zones that the entity is part of.

metadata
object
-
modules
string[]
-
monitoringState

Defines the current monitoring state of an entity.

softwareTechnologies
-
tags

The list of entity tags.

toRelationships
object
-
versionedModules
-

The AgentVersion object

Defines the version of the agent currently running on the entity.

Element
Type
Description
major
integer

The major version number.

minor
integer

The minor version number.

revision
integer

The revision number.

sourceRevision
string

A string representation of the SVN revision number.

timestamp
string

A timestamp string: format "yyyymmdd-hhmmss

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.

The MonitoringState object

Defines the current monitoring state of an entity.

Element
Type
Description
actualMonitoringState
string

The current actual monitoring state on the entity.

  • OFF
  • ON
expectedMonitoringState
string

The monitoring state that is expected from the configuration

  • OFF
  • ON
restartRequired
boolean

Defines whether or not the process has to restarted to enable monitoring

The TechnologyInfo object

Element
Type
Description
edition
string
-
type
string
-
version
string
-

The TagInfo object

Tag of a Dynatrace entity.

Element
Type
Description
context
string

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
key
string

The key of the tag.

Custom tags have the tag value here.

value
string

The value of the tag.

Not applicable to custom tags.

The ProcessGroupInstanceModule object

Element
Type
Description
name
string
-
version
string
-

Response body JSON model

{
  "agentVersions": [
    {
      "major": 1,
      "minor": 1,
      "revision": 1,
      "sourceRevision": "string",
      "timestamp": "string"
    }
  ],
  "azureHostName": "string",
  "azureSiteName": "string",
  "bitness": "32bit",
  "customizedName": "string",
  "discoveredName": "string",
  "displayName": "string",
  "entityId": "string",
  "firstSeenTimestamp": 1,
  "fromRelationships": {
    "isInstanceOf": [
      "string"
    ],
    "isNetworkClientOf": [
      "string"
    ],
    "isProcessOf": [
      "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"
    ],
    "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"
    ],
    "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"
    ]
  },
  "modules": [
    "string"
  ],
  "monitoringState": {
    "actualMonitoringState": "OFF",
    "expectedMonitoringState": "OFF",
    "restartRequired": true
  },
  "softwareTechnologies": [
    {
      "edition": "string",
      "type": "string",
      "version": "string"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    {
      "context": "AWS",
      "key": "string",
      "value": "string"
    }
  ],
  "toRelationships": {
    "isNetworkClientOf": [
      "string"
    ],
    "runsOnProcessGroupInstance": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
  "versionedModules": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "version": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Example

In this example, the request gets the details of the Apache Web Server apache2 process, which has the ID of PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE-EC9688429EB24B6B.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

Curl

curl -X GET \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/entity/infrastructure/processes/PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE-EC9688429EB24B6B \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/entity/infrastructure/processes/PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE-EC9688429EB24B6B

Response body

{
  "entityId": "PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE-EC9688429EB24B6B",
  "displayName": "Apache Web Server apache2",
  "discoveredName": "Apache Web Server apache2",
  "firstSeenTimestamp": 1464951001104,
  "lastSeenTimestamp": 1545147232609,
  "tags": [],
  "fromRelationships": {
    "isProcessOf": [
      "HOST-5FD609AD6757BE7D"
    ],
    "isInstanceOf": [
      "PROCESS_GROUP-B34081EFF9E5F516"
    ]
  },
  "toRelationships": {
    "runsOnProcessGroupInstance": [
      "SERVICE-C3173FEB08025322",
      "SERVICE-443EACA6DCAEE651",
      "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
    }
  ],
  "listenPorts": [
    80,
    443
  ],
  "bitness": "64bit",
  "modules": [
    "mod_auth_basic.c",
    "mod_authn_file.c",
    "mod_negotiation.c",
    "mod_dir.c",
    "mod_rewrite.c"
  ],
  "monitoringState": {
    "actualMonitoringState": "ON",
    "expectedMonitoringState": "ON",
    "restartRequired": false
  },
  "agentVersions": [
    {
      "major": 1,
      "minor": 157,
      "revision": 210,
      "timestamp": "20181213-075558",
      "sourceRevision": ""
    }
  ]
}

Response code

200

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