Dynatrace + Red Hat Event Driven Ansible

This collection contains the following Event-Driven Ansible source plugins:

• dt_webhook
• dt_esa_api

Auto-Remediation (dt_esa_api)

This Event source plugin from Dynatrace captures all problems from your Dynatrace tenant and in conjunction with Ansible EDA rulebooks helps to enable auto-remediation in your environment.

Requirements

• Dynatrace SaaS or Managed environment
• Dynatrace API Token with the following scopes: Read problems and Write problems
• Ansible Automation Platform with EDA Controller instance

Example rulebook

---
- name: Listen for events on a webhook
  hosts: all
  sources:
    - dynatrace.event_driven_ansible.dt_esa_api:
        dt_api_host: "https://abc.live.dynatrace.com"
        dt_api_token: "asjfsjkfjfjh"
        delay: 60 # Default is 60 seconds, i.e. the plugin polls problems every 60 seconds
        proxy: "http://my-proxy:3128" # Proxy through which to access host. (default is none)

  rules:
    - name: Problem payload Dynatrace for CPU issue
      condition: event.title is match("CPU saturation")
      action:
        run_job_template:
          name: "Remediate CPU saturation issue"
          organization: "Default"
    - name: Problem payload Dynatrace for App Failure rate increase issue
      condition: event.title is match("Failure rate increase")
      action:
        run_job_template:
          name: "Remediate Application issue"
          organization: "Default"
    - name: Update comments in Dynatrace
      condition: 
        all: 
          - event.status == "OPEN"
      action:
        run_playbook:
          name: dt-update-comments.yml

dt_webhook

The dt_webhook event-source plugin is capable of receiving events from Dynatrace via the "Send event to Event-Driven Ansible" workflow action of the Red Hat Ansible for Workflows integration.

Example rulebook

---
- name: Listen for events on dt_webhook
  hosts: all
  sources:
    - dynatrace.event_driven_ansible.dt_webhook:
        host: 0.0.0.0
        port: 5000
        token: '{{ <token_variable_name> }}'

  rules:
    - name: API Endpoint not available
      condition: event.payload.eventData["event.name"] is match ("Monitoring not available")
      action:
        run_job_template:
          name: "Trigger test playbook"
          organization: "Default"    

Licensing

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