Dt Obs Ext Monitors

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Sending external synthetic test outcomes
• CI monitor data
• Third-party check results to Dynatrace

Example prompts

• “ingest test results”
• “send monitor results”
• “third party monitor”
• “/dt-obs-ext-monitors”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4f9aa71. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are dql).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Dt Obs Ext Monitors loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 213 tokens; SKILL.md has 512 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~213

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai at commit 4f9aa71, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Dynatrace). 512 words, ~1,475 tokens.

name

dt-obs-ext-monitors

description

3rd-party test and monitor result ingestion into Dynatrace Grail via the platform events ingest API (platform/ingest/custom/events/). Use when sending external synthetic test outcomes, CI monitor data, or third-party check results to Dynatrace. Covers token scope, full event schema for external_test_run and external_test_step (including dt.security_context, ci.*, trace correlation, and pipeline-added fields), curl and Java DTO examples, and DQL verification. Triggers: "ingest test results", "send monitor results", "third party monitor", "external test ingestion", "send synthetic results to Grail", "external test run event schema". Not for Dynatrace-native Synthetic Monitoring browser/HTTP checks, or RUM (use dt-obs-frontends). For migrating from the deprecated POST /api/v1/synthetic/ext/tests API, load dt-upgrade instead.

license

Apache-2.0

curl -X POST "https://{env-id}.live.dynatrace.com/platform/ingest/custom/events/external.tests" \
  -H "Authorization: Api-Token {token}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{
    "event.kind": "EXTERNAL_TEST_EVENT",
    "event.type": "external_test_run",
    "test.id": "my-api-health-check",
    "test.run.id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
    "test.name": "My API Health Check",
    "test.type": "api",
    "test.run.status": "passed",
    "test.run.availability": 1,
    "test.run.duration_ms": 245,
    "test.run.location": "us-east-1",
    "dt.security_context": "team-checkout",
    "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
  }]'

fetch events, from:now()-1h
| filter event.type == "external_test_run"
| fields timestamp, test.id, test.name, test.run.status, test.run.duration_ms, test.run.location
| sort timestamp desc
| limit 20

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/dt-obs-ext-monitors of Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai.

• SKILL.md
• references/event-ingestion.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4f9aa71