PRO TIP - Dynatrace Account Management API Postman Collection

[DanielS]

My fellow DynaMight  Patrick Hofmann pahofmann has shared several Postman collections for the different Dynatrace API's with the community.

Encouraged by this because I use them daily, I created a Postman Collection for the new Account management API following the guidelines used in the ones created by Patrick.

I share the steps to get this working in your Postman client.

1. Create an Oauth2 Client in Dynatrace

For more reference in this step you can take a look at this post from @AgataWlodarczyk with a video from @adam_gardner 

1. Open the User menu and select Account settings (in latest Dynatrace, Account Management).

2. On the top navigation bar, go to Identity & access management > OAuth clients.

3. Select Create client.

4. Provide an email of the user who owns the client.

5. Provide a description for the new client.

6. Select the required token scopes. These are the scopes that the client will be able to grant. Tokens generated by the client might have different scope sets.

   • Allow read access for identity resources (users and groups) account-idm-read
   • Allow write access for identity resources (users and groups) account-idm-write
   • Allow read access for environment resources account-env-read
   • Allow write access for environment resources account-env-write
   • Allow read access for usage and consumption resources account-uac-read
   • Allow write access for usage and consumption resources account-uac-write
   • Allow IAM policy configuration for environments. iam-policies-management; iam:policies:read; iam:policies:write; iam:bindings:read; iam:bindings:write; iam:effective-permissions:read.

7. Select Create client.

8. Copy the generated information to the clipboard. Store it in a password manager for future use.

2. Create an Environment for your Collection in Postman

Environment

1. Select Environments.
2. Click the + sign.
3. Name your Environment.
4. The environment needs that you define these variables:
   • DT_CLIENT_ID Provided when you create the Oauth2 client in step 1.
   • DT_CLIENT_SECRET Provided when you create the Oauth2 client in step 1.
   • DT_ACCOUNT_URN Provided when you create the Oauth2 client in step 1.
   • DT_UUID Same value of DT_ACCOUNT_URN but stripping the urn:account:
   • DT_SCOPE A list of required scopes separated by a whitespace.
   • DT_TOKEN_URL ⚠️ PLEASE DON'T CHANGE THIS VALUE ⚠️ The URL https://sso.dynatrace.com/sso/oauth2/token where you need to obtain your Bearer token after create the Oauth2 client.
   • DT_TOKEN_NAME The name for your token.
   • DT_TOKEN In this variable you will store your assigned dynamic token.
   • DT_HOST ⚠️ PLEASE DON'T CHANGE THIS VALUE ⚠️ The URL api.dynatrace.com of the Dynatrace API for Account Management.
5. Leave this Environment Selected.

3. Import Dynatrace Account Management API Collection

Import

1. Download the Dynatrace Account Management JSON from the repository.
2. Select Collections.
3. Click on Import and choose the previously downloaded JSON.
4. Your Dynatrace Account Management API v1 Collection has been added to your collection.

4. Get your Bearer Token

Get your Bearer Token

1. ⚠️ DON'T FORGET TO HAVE SELECTED THE ENVIRONMENT CREATED IN STEP 2 ⚠️
2. Select your recently imported Dynatrace Account Management API v1 Collection.
3. Click on the Authorization tab.
4. Click on Get New Access Token.
5. Wait until the token has been collected.
6. Click on Use Token.
7. ⚠️ BE SURE TO SELECT ALL YOUR TOKEN ⚠️ And then select Set as variable.
8. Choose the DT_TOKEN variable to store your new Bearer Token.

5. Ready, Set, Go 🚦

Using Collection

1. ⚠️ DON'T FORGET TO HAVE SELECTED THE ENVIRONMENT CREATED IN STEP 2 ⚠️
2. Select Collections.
3. Then Select the Request you want to use and check the parameters.
4. Click on Send.
5. And if everything goes well you get your Response.

[ChadTurner]

Thank you for documenting this @DanielS 

[DanielS]

Your welcome @ChadTurner. The use of Oauth2 clients to obtain valid Bearer tokens is what is coming to Dynatrace API.

[dannemca]

This is gold!

[DanielS]

Thanks @dannemca It took me a while to implement it in Postman, but it will surely be very useful for interacting with the API. I'm thinking improvements for future releases.

[Mizső]

WOW!

This is a very good and detailed guide! Thanks for sharing it @DanielS !

[DanielS]

Thanks @Mizső hope it helps.

[Kenny_Gillette]

GOLDEN!!!

[DanielS]

Thanks @Kenny_Gillette 

[Malaik]

Awesome, Thanks to share.

[PedroDeodato]

As a Partner who often needs to manage several Accounts, this is so very very useful!! Thank you, @DanielS !!

[DanielS]

Glad to help @PedroDeodato 

[tijust1]

Thanks @DanielS for providing this valuable information. It helps me a lot while handling multiple environments. 

Tijust