External Monitor Ingestion

Send 3rd-party test and monitor results to Dynatrace Grail using the events ingest API. This is the canonical replacement for the deprecated POST /api/v1/synthetic/ext/tests endpoint.

Overview

Events posted to /platform/ingest/custom/events/{endpoint} land in Grail and are processed by OpenPipeline, which:

• Extracts metrics (external.test.availability, external.test.duration) for alerting and SLOs
• Registers each unique test.id as an EXT_TEST Smartscape node — enabling Davis Problems to attach to a named entity ("External test X went down") rather than floating without topology context
• Adds result.status.category to step events (SUCCESS / SKIPPED / FAIL) for dashboard filtering

Two event types form a test result: