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Dynatrace Extensions Dynatrace Extensions is an extension for Visual Studio Code that supports all aspects of developing Extensions running on Dynatrace. Find it by searching the VS Code extensions marketplace.

It gives you access to a specialized toolkit that's ready to use and helps you out with the following:

  1. Operational efficiency
  2. Content creation
  3. Content validation

Check out the instructions for getting started, or keep reading to learn some of its features.

Features

Operational efficiency

Dynatrace Extensions Dynatrace Extensions makes you more operationally efficient when developing extensions. It includes the following features:

  • Dedicated views for managing workspaces and environments at scale
  • Overview of deployed extensions across multiple environments
  • All extension-related operations available within your editor:
    • Create, build, sign, upload, and activate extensions.
    • Create and manage monitoring configurations.
    • Create and manage credentials used in signing your extensions.

Content creation

You can speed up development by automatically generating significant portions of your extension's manifest and assets. These features include:

  • Generating unified analysis pages for your entities.
  • Code completions based on data from your environment.
  • Generating documentation, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Running Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Queries to extract metrics and dimensions automatically.
  • Connecting to Prometheus exporters to extract metrics, dimensions, and metadata automatically.
  • Connecting to Java processes to extract JMX metrics and dimensions automatically.

Content validation

You can reduce bugs by validating your extension content early. Dynatrace Extensions Dynatrace Extensions provides:

  • Extension manifest validation against different schema versions
  • Custom diagnostics beyond what's included in the extension schemas
  • Metric and entity selector validation against environment data

Support

This open source project relies on community feedback and contribution and isn't officially supported by Dynatrace.

For any issues, concerns, or contributions, leverage the issues page of the GitHub repository hosting this project.

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