Getting Started

Dynatrace Environment

You must have access to a Dynatrace SaaS environment.Sign up here

Save the Dynatrace environment URL:

• Without the trailing slash
• Without .apps. in the URL

The generic format is:

https://<EnvironmentID>.<Environment>.<URL>

For example:

https://abc12345.live.dynatrace.com

Custom Runbook

Info

As the developer responsible for the cartservice, if problems occur, you're the best person to know how to resolve the issue.

To help your colleagues, you have prebuilt a notebook which will be useful as a runbook if / when problems occur.

You want to make this notebook automatically available whenever problems with the cartservice occur.

Download the file Redis Troubleshooting.json and save to your computer.

In Dynatrace:

• Press ctrl + k. Search for notebooks
• Open the app and find the Upload button at the top of the page
• Upload the JSON file you previously downloaded

• Make a note of the notebook ID from the URL bar

Warning

Your environment and notebook IDs will be different.

Install New Problems App

In Dynatrace:

• Press ctrl + k. Search for Hub.
• Open the Problems app and click Install

Create OpenPipeline

Define New Log Pipeline

In Dynatrace:

• Press ctrl + k. Search for OpenPipeline. Open the app
• Ensure Logs is selected and select the Pipelines tab

• Click + Pipeline to create a new log ingest pipeline.
• Click the pencil icon and rename the pipeline to Log Errors
• Change to the Data extraction tab and add a new Davis event processor

• Provide any name you like
• Set the Matching condition to true (this means any log line flowing through the pipeline will alert)
• Set the Event name to:

[{priority}][{deployment.release_stage}][{deployment.release_product}][{dt.owner}] {alertmessage}

• Set the Event description to:

{supportInfo} - Log line: {content}

• Set the event.type property to:

ERROR_EVENT

• Add 5 new properties:

  • dt.owner with value: {dt.owner}
  • dt.cost.costcenter with value: {dt.cost.costcenter}
  • dt.cost.product with value: {dt.cost.product}
  • deployment.release_product with value: {deployment.release_product}
  • deployment.release_stage with value: {deployment.release_stage}

Save it!

Don't forget to click Save to save the pipeline

Create Pipeline Routing Rule

Create a dynamic routing rule to tell Dynatrace to redirect only certain logs through the Logs Errors pipeline.

• Switch to the Dynamic routing tab
• Click + Dynamic route
• Name the route whatever you like
• Set the Matching condition to:

isNotNull(alertmessage) and
isNotNull(priority) and
priority == "1"

• Click Add

Save it!

Don't forget to click Save to save the dynamic route

Success

The pipeline is configured.

Logs flowing into Dynatrace with an alertmessage field and a priority of "1" will be processed via your custom pipeline.

Those log lines will raise a custom problem in Dynatrace where the problem title is:

[{priority}][{deployment.release_stage}][{deployment.release_product}][{dt.owner}] {alertmessage}

Explain the Configuration

The above needs some explanation because there's a lot of "magic" happening.

This will be explained after the demo is started; while you wait for things to initialise.

Create API Token

In Dynatrace:

• Press ctrl + k. Search for access tokens.
• Create a new access token with the following permissions:
  • logs.ingest
  • metrics.ingest
  • openTelemetryTrace.ingest
  • events.ingest

API Token Permissions Explained

• logs.ingest, metrics.ingest and openTelemetryTrace.ingest are required to send the relevant telemetry data into Dynatrace
• events.ingest is required to send the CUSTOM_CONFIGURATION event into Dynatrace

Start Demo

Enter Required Information

During the next step you will be prompted for some details.

Enter the relevant details in the GitHub form.

You've done the hard work! It is time to spin up the demo environment.

Click this button to open the demo environment. This will open in a new tab.

• Fill in the form with the details you've already gathered.
• Click Create codespace
• Proceed to the next documentation step with the link below.

• Click Here to Continue