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Dynatrace Metrics V2 Metric Descriptor Collection Structure

A paginated collection of metric descriptors returned by the list metrics endpoint.

Type: object Properties: 4
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MetricDescriptorCollection is a JSON Structure definition published by Dynatrace, describing 4 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/draft/2020-12/schema meta-schema.

Properties

nextPageKey totalCount resolution metrics

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/draft/2020-12/schema

JSON Structure

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{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "A paginated collection of metric descriptors returned by the list metrics endpoint.",
  "name": "MetricDescriptorCollection",
  "properties": {
    "nextPageKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The cursor for the next page of results. Include this value as the nextPageKey query parameter in the next request. Null if there are no more results."
    },
    "totalCount": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The total number of metrics available matching the query."
    },
    "resolution": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The resolution of the data if applicable."
    },
    "metrics": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "The list of metric descriptors on this page.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "description": "Describes a single metric including its metadata, supported aggregations, entity dimensions, and default aggregation settings.",
        "properties": {
          "metricId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The fully qualified key of the metric, potentially including applied transformations. For example, builtin:host.cpu.usage:avg."
          },
          "displayName": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The human-readable display name of the metric."
          },
          "description": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "A detailed description of what the metric measures."
          },
          "unit": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The unit of the metric values. For example, Percent, Byte, MilliSecond."
          },
          "dduBillable": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Whether ingesting this metric consumes Davis Data Units (DDUs)."
          },
          "created": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The Unix timestamp in milliseconds when the metric was created."
          },
          "lastWritten": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The Unix timestamp in milliseconds when the metric was last written."
          },
          "entityType": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "The entity types that can be used to filter this metric, e.g., HOST, SERVICE, PROCESS_GROUP.",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "aggregationTypes": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "The list of aggregation types supported for this metric. Valid values include min, max, sum, count, avg, median, and percentile.",
            "items": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "min",
                "max",
                "sum",
                "count",
                "avg",
                "median",
                "percentile"
              ]
            }
          },
          "dimensionDefinitions": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "The list of dimension definitions for this metric. Each dimension provides a label for data splitting.",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "description": "Defines a single dimension of a metric.",
              "properties": {
                "key": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The unique key identifying this dimension."
                },
                "name": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The display name of the dimension."
                },
                "type": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The type of the dimension. For example, ENTITY for entity dimensions or STRING for string dimensions."
                },
                "displayName": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The human-readable display name of the dimension."
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "transformations": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "The list of transformation expressions that can be applied to this metric using the metric selector.",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "defaultAggregation": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "The default aggregation setting for the metric.",
            "properties": {
              "type": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The aggregation type to apply when no aggregation is specified in the query. For example, avg, sum, or max.",
                "enum": [
                  "min",
                  "max",
                  "sum",
                  "count",
                  "avg",
                  "median",
                  "percentile"
                ]
              },
              "parameter": {
                "type": "number",
                "description": "The parameter for the aggregation type, used for percentile aggregation to specify the percentile value (e.g., 95)."
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}