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Dynatrace Trace Ingest API

Owned by Ben Bramley
Jul 15, 2024
2 min read

Adding a Dynatrace Trace Ingest API output

  • Login to the PowerConnect Cloud web UI

  • Click the Outputs link in the menu bar

  • Click the + button to add a new output

  • Choose dynatrace → trace-ingest-api in the dropdown menu that appears

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  • Populate the form with the details of your Dynatrace Trace Ingest API endpoint

 

Configuration

Description

Required

Default Value

Comments

Configuration

Description

Required

Default Value

Comments

Dynatrace Trace Ingest API URL

Trace Ingest API url

Yes

 

e.g. https://xxx.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/otlp/v1/traces

Dynatrace Trace Ingest API Token

Trace IngestAPI token

Yes

 

 

Batch traces together before sending to Dynatrace

Batch events

No

Yes

 

Batch size

Max size of the batches

No

100

 

Retry send if error occurs

Retry sending data if the Dynatrace endpoint is down

No

No

 

Number of times to retry

If retries are enabled defines how many times the Agent will retry before giving up

No

3

 

Backoff interval in seconds (fixed)

Time in seconds the Agent will wait between retries

No

10

 

  • Click Test Output → Test

  • Make sure the Output test is successful then click the Save button

  • The output has now been created