Dynatrace

Dynatrace is a software intelligence platform that provides automated observability, AI-powered analytics, and continuous automation for cloud-native environments.

Requirements

Before connecting Dynatrace to Akamas Insights, ensure you have:

Required Credentials

• Endpoint URL: Your Dynatrace environment URL in the format https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com

• API Token: A Dynatrace API token with all the Required API Token Permissions (see below)

• Grail Bearer Token: A Dynatrace Grail Bearer Token for DQL with all the Required Grail Bearer Token Permissions (see below)

Required API Token Permissions

Your Dynatrace API token must have the following scopes:

• metrics.read: Read metrics from the environment

• entities.read: Read monitored entities information

Required Grail Bearer Token Permissions

• storage:events:read

• storage:buckets:read

• storage:metrics:read

• storage:entities:read

You can obtain this information from the following references:

• Dynatrace API Authentication

• Dynatrace Access Tokens and Scopes

Configuration

Dynatrace Connect Dialog

To connect Akamas Insights to Dynatrace:

1. Endpoint URL: Enter your Dynatrace environment URL

   • Format: https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com

2. API Token: Provide a Dynatrace API token with the following permissions:

   • Read entities

   • Read metrics

   • Read problems

3. Test Connection: Click the test button to verify the configuration

4. Save: Once the test succeeds, save the integration

Data Import Settings

When creating a new import, you can configure advanced settings to optimize data extraction, handle API rate limits, and support large-scale environments. While the default values are suitable for most use cases, you may need to adjust them to fit your specific environment size and API constraints. Available options:

• Time resolution: The resolution of the data, going from 5 minutes to 1 day;

• Import scope: The scope of data to import. There are 2 options:

  • Complete, includes all infrastructure layers;

  • Infrastructure, focuses only on cluster and node data.

• Page Size: Number of entities retrieved per API request (default: 500). Reduce this value if you encounter API timeouts or memory issues;

• Entity Limit: The number of entries to insert in the import;

• Retries: Number of retry attempts for failed API requests (default: 3). Increase this value if you experience intermittent connectivity issues;

• Max Import Time: Maximum number of days per time chunk when splitting large time ranges (default: 7). Reduce this value if extracting very large datasets to improve reliability;

• Max Metrics per Request: Maximum number of metrics to request in a single API call (default: 100). Adjust based on your environment's API performance and response times;

• Parallelism: Number of concurrent API requests (default: 10). Increase for faster extraction if your Dynatrace environment can handle higher load, or decrease to reduce API pressure.