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Getting Started#

Requirements

  • A Dynatrace SaaS Tenant with DPS license (sign up here)
    • Live, Sprint, or Dev environment
    • Full administrator access to the account and tenant
  • A GitHub account to interact with the demo repository and run a Codespaces instance

Prerequisites#

You will need full administrator access to a Dynatrace SaaS tenant with a DPS license.

  • Identify Dynatrace Tenant Platform URL
  • Generate Dynatrace Platform Token

Identify Dynatrace Tenant Platform URL#

The Dynatrace platform provides a collection of so-called platform services where each has its specific area of responsibility. You can access platform services in different ways. Platform services are individually versioned and offer RESTful APIs via HTTP requests.

Dynatrace Documentation

Identify and save/store your Dynatrace Tenant Platform URL for the Dynatrace SaaS tenant:

No Trailing Slash

Do not include a trailing slash!

Type URL Pattern
Live (Prod) https://{your-environment-id}.apps.dynatrace.com
Stage https://{your-environment-id}.sprint.apps.dynatracelabs.com

Generate Dynatrace Platform Token#

Use Dynatrace Account Management to create a Platform Token.

Account Management

Dynatrace Documentation

Generate a new Platform Token with the following scopes:

document:documents:write
document:documents:read
document:documents:delete
document:trash.documents:delete
app-engine:apps:run
app-engine:functions:run

Continue#

In the next section, we'll launch our Codespaces instance.