Dynatrace

Introduction
Dynatrace is a software-intelligence monitoring platform that simplifies enterprise cloud complexity and accelerates digital transformation. Dynatrace all-in-one platform provides answers, not just data, about the performance of your applications, their underlying infrastructure, and the experience of your end users. 
This section explains on how to integrate CloudFabrix RDA with Dynatrace. The integration provides the below.
Infrastructure and Applications inventory
Infrastructure and Application dependency and relationship data
Historical alerts data
Performance Metrics list
Performance Metrics
Prerequisites:
The following are pre-requisites for creating Dynatrace as a Datasource. It is used for Alert Notifications from Dynatrace and collecting Host/Application Configuration and Metrics & Logs on-demand.
1) Dynatrace SaaS Account
2) An API Key (Created on Dynatrace SaaS portal)
3) One or more Hosts or Applications or Databases being monitored by Dynatrace
Enabling API access on Dynatrace SaaS portal:
Step 1: Login to https://<instsance-id>.live.dynatrace.com using your credentials
Step 2: Go to ‘Settings’ → ‘Integration’ → ‘Dynatrace API’ and click on 'Generate token'
Step 3: Enter API name as 'cfx-rda-api' or any other name and enable the below permissions for both API v1 & v2
API v1:
Access problem and event feed, metrics, and topology
Read log contents
Read synthetic monitors, location and nodes
Read configuration
Read audit logs
API v2:
Read metrics
Read entities
Read problems
Read events
Read ActiveGates
Read extensions
Read extension environment configuration
Read extension monitoring configuration
Read synthetic locations
Read settings
Read SLO
Read releases
Read audit logs
Step 4: Click on 'Generate' 
Adding Dynatrace as Datasource/Extension in 'RDA':
Dynatrace or any other datasource/extension's configuration is configured in RDA's user interface.  Login into RDA's user interface using a browser.
https://<rda-ip-address>:9998
Under 'Notebook', click on 'CFXDX Python 3' box
In the 'Notebook' command box, type botadmin() and alt (or option) + Enter to open datasource administration menu.
Click on 'Add' menu and under Type drop down, select dynatrace
type: Datasource/Extension type. In this context, it is 'dynatrace'
name: Datasource/Extension label which should be unique within the RDA
SaaS Domain URL: Dynatrace SaaS instance FQDN (Ex: yas4356.live.dynatrace.com)
Port: 443
Protocol: https
API Token: API token generated in Dynatrace SaaS portal
Click on 'Check Connectivity' to verify the network access and credentials validity. Once it is validated, click on 'Add' button to add the Dynatrace as a datasource.
Dynatrace data exploration in 'RDA':
Once Dynatrace integration details are configured in RDA as datasource, it will be ready to connect to Dynatrace SaaS instance and explore the data for the analysis.
Run the below command within the RDA CLI to list the available 'Tags' or 'Bots' for Dynatrace extension. In this example, the Dynatrace extension is labelled as 'dyntrace' which will be referenced within each applicable tag name.
Each listed 'tag' starts with a special character (i.e. * or # or @) and each hints about tag's filtering capability. For more information abut them, please refer to "RDA Terminology"
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tags dynatrace
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tag *dynatrace:dynatrace-hosts
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Contents

Introduction

Prerequisites:

Enabling API access on Dynatrace SaaS portal:

Adding Dynatrace as Datasource/Extension in 'RDA':

Dynatrace data exploration in 'RDA':