Monitored entities API - GET all entity types

Lists all types of monitored entities observed in your environment.

Additionally, every entity type lists the possible properties of an entity of that type. Note that these are placeholders showing what properties an entity can possibly have, not actual properties. To view actual properties of an entity, use the GET an entity request.

You can 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 nextPageKey field of the previous response in the nextPageKey query parameter to obtain subsequent pages.

The request produces an application/json payload.

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

Authentication

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

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

Parameters

Parameter
Type
Description
In
Required
nextPageKey
string

The cursor for the next page of results. You can find it in the nextPageKey field of the previous response.

The first page is always returned if you don't specify the nextPageKey query parameter.

When the nextPageKey is set to obtain subsequent pages, you must omit all other query parameters.

query
optional
pageSize
integer

The amount of entity types in a single response payload.

The maximal allowed page size is 500.

If not set, 50 is used.

query
optional

Response

Response codes

Code
Type
Description
200

Success

400
-

Failed. There are no more entity types to export.

4XX

Client side error.

5XX

Server side error.

Response body objects

The EntityTypeList object

A list of properties of all available entity types.

Element
Type
Description
nextPageKey
string

The cursor for the next page of results. Has the value of null on the last page.

Use it in the nextPageKey query parameter to obtain subsequent pages of the result.

pageSize
integer

The number of entries per page.

totalCount
integer

The total number of entries in the result.

types

The list of meta information for all available entity-types

The EntityType object

A list of properties of the monitored entity type.

Element
Type
Description
dimensionKey
string

The dimension key used within metrics for this monitored entity.

displayName
string

The display name of the monitored entity.

entityLimitExceeded
boolean

Whether the entity creation limit for the given type has been exceeded

fromRelationships

A list of possible relationships where the monitored entity type occupies the FROM position

managementZones
string

The placeholder for the list of management zones of an actual entity.

properties

A list of additional properties of the monitored entity type.

tags
string

The placeholder for the list of tags of an actual entity.

toRelationships

A list of possible relationships where the monitored entity type occupies the TO position.

type
string

The type of the monitored entity.

The ToPosition object

The TO position of a relationship.

Element
Type
Description
id
string

The ID of the relationship.

toTypes
string[]

A list of monitored entity types that can occupy the TO position.

The EntityTypePropertyDto object

The property of a monitored entity.

Element
Type
Description
displayName
string

The display-name of the property.

id
string

The ID of the property.

type
string

The type of the property.

The FromPosition object

The FROM position of a relationship.

Element
Type
Description
fromTypes
string[]

A list of monitored entity types that can occupy the FROM position.

id
string

The ID of the relationship.

Response body JSON model

{
  "nextPageKey": "AQAAABQBAAAABQ==",
  "pageSize": 1,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "types": [
    {
      "entityLimitExceeded": "false",
      "fromRelationships": [
        {
          "id": "RUNS_ON_RESOURCE",
          "toTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "IS_NETWORK_CLIENT_OF_HOST",
          "toTypes": [
            "HOST",
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "managementZones": "placeholder for management zones",
      "properties": [
        {
          "id": "BITNESS",
          "type": "Enum"
        },
        {
          "id": "CPU_CORES",
          "type": "Number"
        }
      ],
      "tags": "placeholder for tags",
      "toRelationships": [
        {
          "fromTypes": [
            "DISK"
          ],
          "id": "IS_DISK_OF"
        },
        {
          "fromTypes": [
            "VMWARE_DATACENTER",
            "GEOLOC_SITE"
          ],
          "id": "IS_SITE_OF"
        }
      ],
      "type": "HOST"
    }
  ]
}

Example

In this example, the request lists all entity types observed in the mySampleEnv environment.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

Because the full result is rather lengthy, it is truncated to three entries. Subsequently, the properties array of each entity is also truncated to three entries.

Curl

curl -L -X GET 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/entityTypes' \
-H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/entityTypes

Response body

{
  "totalCount": 33,
  "pageSize": 33,
  "types": [
    {
      "type": "APPLICATION",
      "properties": [
        {
          "id": "applicationType",
          "type": "Enum"
        },
        {
          "id": "conditionalName",
          "type": "String"
        },
        {
          "id": "customizedName",
          "type": "String"
        }
      ],
      "tags": "List",
      "managementZones": "List",
      "fromRelationships": [
        {
          "id": "calls",
          "toTypes": [
            "SERVICE"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "toRelationships": []
    },
    {
      "type": "HOST",
      "properties": [
        {
          "id": "ipAddresses",
          "type": "List"
        },
        {
          "id": "osType",
          "type": "Enum"
        },
        {
          "id": "osVersion",
          "type": "String"
        }
      ],
      "tags": "List",
      "managementZones": "List",
      "fromRelationships": [
        {
          "id": "runsOn",
          "toTypes": [
            "EC2_INSTANCE",
            "VIRTUALMACHINE",
            "AZURE_VM",
            "OPENSTACK_VM",
            "GOOGLE_COMPUTE_ENGINE",
            "HYPERVISOR"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "runsOnResource",
          "toTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "isInstanceOf",
          "toTypes": [
            "HOST_GROUP"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "isNetworkClientOfHost",
          "toTypes": [
            "HOST",
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "candidateTalksWith",
          "toTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE",
            "PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "toRelationships": [
        {
          "id": "isProcessOf",
          "fromTypes": [
            "PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "runsOn",
          "fromTypes": [
            "OPENSTACK_VM",
            "PROCESS_GROUP"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "isSiteOf",
          "fromTypes": [
            "GEOLOC_SITE",
            "VMWARE_DATACENTER"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "talksWithCandidate",
          "fromTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE",
            "PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "isNetworkClientOfHost",
          "fromTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE",
            "HOST"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "isDiskOf",
          "fromTypes": [
            "DISK"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "runsOnHost",
          "fromTypes": [
            "SERVICE"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "isContainerGroupInstanceOfHost",
          "fromTypes": [
            "CONTAINER_GROUP_INSTANCE"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "SERVICE",
      "properties": [
        {
          "id": "mainServiceSoftwareTech",
          "type": "Map"
        },
        {
          "id": "port",
          "type": "Number"
        },
        {
          "id": "serviceType",
          "type": "Enum"
        }
      ],
      "tags": "List",
      "managementZones": "List",
      "fromRelationships": [
        {
          "id": "runsOn",
          "toTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE_GROUP",
            "PROCESS_GROUP"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "runsOnProcessGroupInstance",
          "toTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE",
            "PROCESS_GROUP_INSTANCE"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "runsOnHost",
          "toTypes": [
            "CUSTOM_DEVICE",
            "HOST"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "calls",
          "toTypes": [
            "SERVICE"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "toRelationships": [
        {
          "id": "calls",
          "fromTypes": [
            "MOBILE_APPLICATION",
            "CUSTOM_APPLICATION",
            "HTTP_CHECK",
            "APPLICATION",
            "SERVICE"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Response code

200

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