Dynatrace API Scripts

API Interfaces

A Powershell interface to Dynatrace Monitoring environments, in a similar way to the default powershell cmdlets that provide: Get-Process, Get-<item>, Set-Service, Set-<item> et al.

All scripts will:

• Use a clear naming system using the standard Powershell verbs and a 'tenant' or 'cluster' declaration
• Check input data (env,token,general input) to fail early and minimise time looking at server generated errors
• Make use of environment variables and piping to minimise unnecessary typing
  • Set $env:dtenv and $env:dttoken at the start of your session (or in your $profile) to never have to specify these arguments
• Provide strong compatibility with get-help, providing simple and extended examples of use

Script	Details
get-tenantMonitoredEntity.ps1	For retrieving entities currently monitored in a Dynatrace Environment Usecases: Exploration of a monitoring environment via the API Reporting on how many X in an environment To collect information required for further scripts (piping further into a chain)
get-tenantToken.ps1	For auditing Tokens available in a given Dynatrace Usecases: Reviewing users that have created tokens
set-tenantToken.ps1	For configuring tokens in a given Dynatrace Tenant. Created to function with the output directly from get-tenantTokens or via a filtering step Usecases: Programmatically create new tokens Revoke tokens belonging to a certain user Update names for tokens Remove problematic scopes from tokens found in Dynatrace tenants
get-tenantTokenDetail.ps1	For when you only want information about a specific tenant token Usecases: Checking scopes assigned to a token Checking scopes of tokens listed for use by run-clusterwide.ps1.
get-tenantDashboard.ps1	For auditing or reporting of who has created/shared dashboards in a given Dynatrace Tenant Usecases: Reviewing users that have created Dashboards Reviewing the sharing of dashboards Accessing user dashboards to support configuration
get-tenantHostGroupDetail.ps1	For reporting on all hosts in an environment, particularly for HU consumption by HostGroup Usecases: What is the distribution of HU in my environment? What is the newest and oldest Agent version running in my environment? What Host Groups have the oldest agent version?
get-tenantProblemFeed.ps1	For reporting on all problems in an environment, particularly Usecases: What are the problems report for an enviornment in the last X period?
Invoke-USQLRequest.ps1	Powershell script for saving or viewing USQL queries as PS Tables or CSV files Usecases: Extract USQL data from a tenant in a standard format
Export-TenantConfig.ps1	Powershell script that exports all (or a filterable subset) of the config accessible through the Dynatrace Configuration API Usecases: Backing up an in the case of disaster Exporting a Tenant's configuration for re-use in another tenant Exporting a Tenant's configuration for use with Dynatrace's Monitoring as Code Tool

Other Scripts

copy-dashboard.ps1

Powershell script for moving Dynatrace Managed Dashboards between Managed clusters or tenants

Use case:

• After creating a standard report, copying it to another tenant to share value

set-defaultDashboard.ps1

Script that creates or updates a Dynatrace Managed Dashboard based on a different/pre-existing. Designed for nightly executions that update 'client-facing', published dashboards from a template.

Use case:

• Keeping other dashboards in-sync with a specific 'special' dashboard
• Maintaining a 'Default' dashboard provided to all Dynatrace Managed Tenants
• Updating a 'Things you should know' or 'Public Announcement' dashboard in a scalable way

assign-syntheticClusterLocation.ps1

Powershell script for assigning a Synthetic Location to a Dynatrace Managed Synthetic Cluster Node. This needs to be converted to set-clusterSyntheticLocation.ps1

Use case:

• Providing a better system to add new cluster synthetic nodes - currently there's no UI

run-clusterWide.ps1

Powershell script for running arbitary code against a collection of Dynatrace tenants.

Use case:

• Copying a new standard Dashboard to all tenants in a cluster or customer environment
• Exporting Config from all tenants in a cluster or customer environment
• Gathering Audit logs from all tenants in a cluster or customer environment
• Creating a new token for use by a data ingestion group across the customer environment
• Use any of the other scripts above across multiple tenants

measure-HUperProperty.ps1

Pipeline script for performing simple (but irritating to type out) calculations on Host Meta-data

Use case:

• How many HU in my tenant/cluster/grouping per OS/MonitoringType/environment

export-tenantConfig.ps1

For exporting tenant configuration to disk for archiving or other purposes.

Use case:

• Nightly tenant configuration dump to reduce risk of unwanted or mistaken changes
• Any reason you'd want to have a tenant-specific backup of configuration

templateScaffold.ps1

Template for new scripts

Use case:

• When writing new powershell scripts