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Question by Nitin G. · Sep 09, 2014 at 08:06 PM ·

Filter by HTTP Method GET or POST

Hi,

I want to filter the PurePaths by HTTP Method POST.  How can I do it?

 

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Answer by Andreas G. · Dec 29, 2014 at 10:59 AM

tHi Roy

My holidays are going really well - and I hope that continues for the next couple of days (smile)

To answer your question: yes - you have to create two measures - one for filtering, one for splitting. Thats the way to do it the right way as filters are always evaluated against the thresholds (which are numeric) and the splittings can be anything basically - but typically are strings. So - in most cases you end up with two measures for the same value if you want to use it for both

Have a great start into 2015!

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Answer by Andreas G. · Dec 26, 2014 at 01:21 AM

Hi Roy

The only "mistake" you made is that you have to change the Evaluation setting for that measure from "string" to "occurence". Why? Because then this  measure will either return the numerical value 0 or 1 which allows us to use it as a filter measure. Using "string" makes the measure return the string representation of the HTTP Method. comparing that with the upper severe threshold of 1 doesnt make sense and wouldnt result in a positiv match

So - simply change it and it should work fine. I just tested this on your stored session and it worked!

Merry XMas

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avatar image Roy L. · Dec 29, 2014 at 10:46 AM 0
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Hi Andreas,

Hope your holidays were relaxing!

Thanks for your explanation, but I am curious now, there are occasions I want to use the same filter for splitting as well filtering, eg filter by method call in purepath, and split by method call's first argument value

In that case it would be nice to create single method invocation filter to serve both purposes, but from what you mentioned, filter measure must be evaluated as occurrence, and the splitting measure must be evaluated as string?  Meaning I would need two measures of exact same method invocation but just a change in the evaluation?  Or is there more efficient way

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Answer by Roy L. · Dec 24, 2014 at 09:43 PM

Here's one PP that should show up.  Under the details of the Servlet filter you can see web request method is POST.

post.dts

I reviewed some stock BT's that use filters, and I noticed some filters (such as No Robot Request) use string, other filters use occurrence for evaluation.  I'm not clear on the difference when it comes specifically to filtering?  In any case I tried changing to either and to no avail.

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Answer by Andreas G. · Dec 24, 2014 at 09:33 PM

Hi. This looks alright. Can you export a couple of purepaths and send it over?

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Answer by Roy L. · Dec 24, 2014 at 09:29 PM

I am unable to create a proper BT to filter for only POST requests, and I found this thread.

Here's what I did.  Create a BT with single filter.  The filter is the Web Requests - Method measure.  Would this be the right one?  URI/Query fields are blank, Match is set to contains, Value is set to POST, Evaluation is set to occurrence and finally Exceeds or equal set to 1.0.

 

Yet when I open up the new BT dashlet, there are no entries at all.  What's strange is that the filter column in the dashlet is completely blank, as if it is ignoring my POST only filter completely.

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Answer by Nitin G. · Sep 10, 2014 at 08:28 PM

Thanks We have installed it and both of them work.

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avatar image Andreas G. ♦ · Sep 10, 2014 at 08:34 PM 0
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(smile) - great to hear.

BTW - I am always looking for some screenshots of "Server Timeline Dashlet In Action". If you have something to share please let us know. Its great to show engineering how their software helps our customers with solving performance problems

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Here is the snap shot of Server Timeline.

 

The good things is that now I am also able to drill down by HTTP Method (smile)

One more snapshot from Business transaction (smile)

 

 

 

 

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Answer by Nitin G. · Sep 09, 2014 at 10:01 PM

Thanks, Creating a Business Transaction works.

I can't find Server Timeline Dashlet in Dashlets tab. I am using Dynatrace 6.0

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The Server Timeline Dashlet is an add-on that you can install. You can find the download link and installation instructions on the Server Timeline Dashlet page.

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Answer by Andreas G. · Sep 09, 2014 at 09:18 PM

I think you have two options

a) You can create a Business Transaction that filters or splits by HTTP Method

b) You can use the Server Timeline Dashlet - see screenshot

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