Dynatrace

Dynatrace provides AI-powered full-stack observability — APM, infrastructure monitoring, Kubernetes, real user monitoring (RUM), logs, and business analytics — with Davis AI for automated root-cause analysis. Its REST API exposes metrics, traces, entities, problems, Davis AI events, and synthetic test results. For agents, key capabilities include: querying current problem status (for incident-aware orchestration), fetching performance metrics for specific services, and reading entity topology to understand deployment health. API tokens with fine-grained scopes make agent integration safe. Enterprise-scale; primary market is large orgs. Confidence is docs-derived.

REST API organized around Dynatrace environments (tenants). Two API generations: Dynatrace API v1 (legacy, still functional) and Dynatrace API v2 (recommended, OpenAPI 3.0 spec). V2 endpoints: GET /metrics/query, GET /problems, GET /entities, GET /logs/search, POST /events/ingest. Filtering via entitySelector and metricSelector query languages — expressive but have learning curve. Pagination via nextPageKey cursor. Consistent JSON responses with totalCount and pageSize metadata.

Two auth methods: API tokens (created in Dynatrace UI, Bearer token auth) and OAuth2 client credentials (for automation accounts). API tokens have fine-grained permission scopes (metrics.read, problems.read, entities.read, logs.read, etc.) — principle of least privilege is supported. SaaS tenants are scoped to your environment ID (*.live.dynatrace.com). Managed deployments use custom domain endpoints. Token management via Settings → Integration → Dynatrace API.

Structured error responses: HTTP status with JSON body containing error.code and error.message. Standard HTTP codes: 400 (invalid request), 403 (missing scope), 404 (entity not found), 429 (rate limit). Rate limits enforced per API token category. Dynatrace SaaS SLA: 99.9% uptime. Problems API returns current and historical anomalies with Davis AI root-cause attribution. Entity availability depends on monitoring agent coverage.

docs.dynatrace.com provides comprehensive API documentation: API v2 reference (OpenAPI spec downloadable), authentication guide, entity selector syntax, metric selector syntax, and code examples. API Explorer (Swagger UI) built into the Dynatrace UI for live testing. Getting started requires a Dynatrace environment (free trial available). Documentation quality is high; navigating the full API surface requires understanding Dynatrace's entity model.