Custom Extensions Creator
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Overview
Custom Extensions Creator lets you create custom 2.0 extensions directly on the Dynatrace web UI.
You can:
- Create new extensions
- Import existing extensions from your environment or a file
- Change metrics, groups, dimensions, feature sets, and more
- Quickly build, sign, and publish extensions to your environment
Use cases
- Quickly edit an existing extension and deploy without touching YAML files
- Migrate a Custom DB Query extension from v1 to v2 with a single click
- Sign a new extension directly from the browser in the Dynatrace web UI
- Create a new monitoring configuration
- Share the extension YAML with your team
Get started
To use Custom Extensions Creator, the user must be granted the following permissions:
- The
AppEngine - Userpolicy. - A policy with permissions:
ALLOW environment-api:extensions:write;
ALLOW environment-api:extensions:read;
ALLOW extensions:definitions:read;
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1.1.6
Patch Changes
- SQL - Add a new feature to show available columns when creating a SQL extension
- SQL - Add support for schema validation for SQL extensions
- SQL - Add the most recent validation for cron schedule
- SQL - Fix an issue where
var:could not be used in the interval field - SQL - Fix an issue where the timeout was incorrectly validated when schedule was used
1.1.3
Patch Changes
- 5d20d71: * Fix an issue where the interval was validated even when schedule was used
- Add support for parsing the SQL queries and showing which columns are available
1.1.2
Patch Changes
- d04a140: Use form validation best practices
1.1.1
Patch Changes
- 538e7e1: Check for app state size before allowing save
- 04ceeaf: Fix save and deploy button states
1.1.0
Minor Changes
- Adds support for a new
editorview, allowing users to:- Edit any declarative extension
extension.yamlfile - Work with schema support, the editor has full autocomplete and error detection for the extension schema
- Add metrics metadata, topology, screens, and more
- Edit any declarative extension
- Add editor support for all declarative datasources:
- SQL
- SNMP
- SNMP Traps
- JMX
- WMI
- Prometheus
- JDBC
- Add UI support for JMX extensions
- Users can now use the UI to create, edit, and deploy JMX extensions on top of the already supported SQL and SNMP datasources
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1.1.2
- Adds support for a new
editorview, allowing users to:- Edit any declarative extension
extension.yamlfile - Work with schema support, the editor has full autocomplete and error detection for the extension schema
- Add metrics metadata, topology, screens, and more
- Edit any declarative extension
- Add editor support for all declarative datasources:
- SQL
- SNMP
- SNMP Traps
- JMX
- WMI
- Prometheus
- JDBC
- Add UI support for JMX extensions
- Users can now use the UI to create, edit, and deploy JMX extensions on top of the already supported SQL and SNMP datasources
- Rework the forms for SQL and SNMP datasources
- Users can now validate cron expressions directly in the SQL extension form
- Erros should be clearer
- Fix an issue when signing with an invalid certificate did not produce an error
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1.0.2
Patch Changes
- cfa1418: SQL - fix an issue with the timeout and interval calculation being inverted
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1.0.1
Patch Changes
- 55c2d52: Add support for cronlike intervals
- Fix an issue where an invalid app state could cause a state reset
- Allow shares to be stopped even if they were deleted outside the app
- Show an error message when the timeout is larger than the interval
- 8e382eb: Show a validation error if interval is greater than timeout
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1.0.0
There are no breaking changes, the version is bumped to 1.0.0 to follow Dynatrace's app semantic versioning
Patch Changes
- Add initial support for the SNMP datasource
- bf86aa4: Don't return empty states if the state service fails with errors other than a 404
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0.0.20
Patch Changes
- 444a1cd: Remove quoted strings from queries before validating them
- a61f6d7: Add new app icon