brennwert / py-dynasynthetic

A python library providing access to data gathered by Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring

Py-DS - Python Dynatrace Synthetic

Structure

This repository contains

• dynasynthetic/DynatraceDatafeedAPI - a low level abstraction of the dynatrace datafeed api
• dynasynthetic(DynatraceSyntheticAPI - a high level abstraction representing various use cases, including the threshhold evaluation
• dynasynthetic/CommandlineClient - a commandline application, acting as a consumer of the DynatraceSyntheticAPI
• dynasynthetic_cli.py - executable for the commandline client
• check_dynasynthetic.py - executable to run the commandline client in a nagios check style

Setup development environment

Create virtual environment for development

    virtualenv -p python2.7 venv

Use virtuel environment

    source venv/bin/activate

Run tests using tox

    tox

Use application

Set your credentials as env variables

    export DS_USER='your username'; DS_PASS=$(echo -n 'your password' | md5)

Use cli application (example: list all metrics)

    ./dynasynthetic_cli.py list -l metrics -u $DS_USER -p $DS_PASS

Perform nagios check in a metric

    ./check_dynasynthetic.py monitor -m uxtme -s 12345 -c 3000 -w 2000  -u $DS_USER -p $DS_PASS