Automatic Visibility/Observability

The scenario

If you're using this Instana feature, you may already know that you can't do some things in the UI like updating your tests, this happened to a friend of mine... Click in Actions (three dots) and you're going to see "Delete the test" only, remember, we're in Open Beta and some features are not available yet.


So, how do I update the test?

You need the power of API, we have a section for Synthetic settings already in our Instana OpenAPI and documentation is available.
The rest is quite simple, instead of a POST (when you create the test) you use a PUT with the payload changed.

For demonstration purposes, I uploaded some RAW examples using curl, you can use any other fancy method to interact with the API :) like Postman.

At the bottom of the file you're going to find an UPDATE example.

Hope this helps!

Hi Israel Ochoa, thanks for your post and examples of curl, they are very useful. 

Now there is another option to update synthetic test. I create a new command `synctl` to manage synthetic test and location, which can get/create/update/patch and delete synthetic test, it can also get and delete location. Here is the doc https://pages.github.ibm.com/instana/synthetic-synctl/ , I think you and your friend can have a try.

Here are some command examples:

# get test listsynctl get test# update API script with below commandsynctl patch test <id> --script-file path/to/<script-name># update test frequencysynctl patch test <id> --frequency 5# for more patch options, use synctl patch test --help to show help# use this command to see test detailssynctl get test <id> --show-details# get all locationsynctl get location# delete locationsynctl delete location 

Ping me if you have any questions about it and expect your feedback.

The scenario

If you're using this Instana feature, you may already know that you can't do some things in the UI like updating your tests, this happened to a friend of mine... Click in Actions (three dots) and you're going to see "Delete the test" only, remember, we're in Open Beta and some features are not available yet.


So, how do I update the test?

You need the power of API, we have a section for Synthetic settings already in our Instana OpenAPI and documentation is available.
The rest is quite simple, instead of a POST (when you create the test) you use a PUT with the payload changed.

For demonstration purposes, I uploaded some RAW examples using curl, you can use any other fancy method to interact with the API :) like Postman.

At the bottom of the file you're going to find an UPDATE example.

Hope this helps!

Hi Israel Ochoa, thanks for your post and examples of curl, they are very useful. 

Now there is another option to update synthetic test. I create a new command `synctl` to manage synthetic test and location, which can get/create/update/patch and delete synthetic test, it can also get and delete location. Here is the doc https://pages.github.ibm.com/instana/synthetic-synctl/ , I think you and your friend can have a try.

Here are some command examples:

# get test listsynctl get test# update API script with below commandsynctl patch test <id> --script-file path/to/<script-name># update test frequencysynctl patch test <id> --frequency 5# for more patch options, use synctl patch test --help to show help# use this command to see test detailssynctl get test <id> --show-details# get all locationsynctl get location# delete locationsynctl delete location 

Ping me if you have any questions about it and expect your feedback.

The scenario

If you're using this Instana feature, you may already know that you can't do some things in the UI like updating your tests, this happened to a friend of mine... Click in Actions (three dots) and you're going to see "Delete the test" only, remember, we're in Open Beta and some features are not available yet.


So, how do I update the test?

You need the power of API, we have a section for Synthetic settings already in our Instana OpenAPI and documentation is available.
The rest is quite simple, instead of a POST (when you create the test) you use a PUT with the payload changed.

For demonstration purposes, I uploaded some RAW examples using curl, you can use any other fancy method to interact with the API :) like Postman.

At the bottom of the file you're going to find an UPDATE example.

Hope this helps!

Hi Rong, your solution is very useful.

I'm not an IBM employee, hence I don't have access to the repository.Could you share the synctl script here ?

Thank you,

Luis 
 

Hi Israel Ochoa, thanks for your post and examples of curl, they are very useful. 

Now there is another option to update synthetic test. I create a new command `synctl` to manage synthetic test and location, which can get/create/update/patch and delete synthetic test, it can also get and delete location. Here is the doc https://pages.github.ibm.com/instana/synthetic-synctl/ , I think you and your friend can have a try.

Here are some command examples:

# get test listsynctl get test# update API script with below commandsynctl patch test <id> --script-file path/to/<script-name># update test frequencysynctl patch test <id> --frequency 5# for more patch options, use synctl patch test --help to show help# use this command to see test detailssynctl get test <id> --show-details# get all locationsynctl get location# delete locationsynctl delete location 

Ping me if you have any questions about it and expect your feedback.

The scenario

If you're using this Instana feature, you may already know that you can't do some things in the UI like updating your tests, this happened to a friend of mine... Click in Actions (three dots) and you're going to see "Delete the test" only, remember, we're in Open Beta and some features are not available yet.


So, how do I update the test?

You need the power of API, we have a section for Synthetic settings already in our Instana OpenAPI and documentation is available.
The rest is quite simple, instead of a POST (when you create the test) you use a PUT with the payload changed.

For demonstration purposes, I uploaded some RAW examples using curl, you can use any other fancy method to interact with the API :) like Postman.

At the bottom of the file you're going to find an UPDATE example.

Hope this helps!

Hi Luis Sanchez, thank you for your interest in this tool, you can try this version I have uploaded it. Ping me if you have any questions.

Hi Rong, your solution is very useful.

I'm not an IBM employee, hence I don't have access to the repository.Could you share the synctl script here ?

Thank you,

Luis 
 

Hi Israel Ochoa, thanks for your post and examples of curl, they are very useful. 

Now there is another option to update synthetic test. I create a new command `synctl` to manage synthetic test and location, which can get/create/update/patch and delete synthetic test, it can also get and delete location. Here is the doc https://pages.github.ibm.com/instana/synthetic-synctl/ , I think you and your friend can have a try.

Here are some command examples:

# get test listsynctl get test# update API script with below commandsynctl patch test <id> --script-file path/to/<script-name># update test frequencysynctl patch test <id> --frequency 5# for more patch options, use synctl patch test --help to show help# use this command to see test detailssynctl get test <id> --show-details# get all locationsynctl get location# delete locationsynctl delete location 

Ping me if you have any questions about it and expect your feedback.

The scenario

If you're using this Instana feature, you may already know that you can't do some things in the UI like updating your tests, this happened to a friend of mine... Click in Actions (three dots) and you're going to see "Delete the test" only, remember, we're in Open Beta and some features are not available yet.


So, how do I update the test?

You need the power of API, we have a section for Synthetic settings already in our Instana OpenAPI and documentation is available.
The rest is quite simple, instead of a POST (when you create the test) you use a PUT with the payload changed.

For demonstration purposes, I uploaded some RAW examples using curl, you can use any other fancy method to interact with the API :) like Postman.

At the bottom of the file you're going to find an UPDATE example.

Hope this helps!

Thank you Rong. The scripts look quite nice.

Best regards,

Luis

Hi Luis Sanchez, thank you for your interest in this tool, you can try this version I have uploaded it. Ping me if you have any questions.

Hi Rong, your solution is very useful.

I'm not an IBM employee, hence I don't have access to the repository.Could you share the synctl script here ?

Thank you,

Luis 
 

Hi Israel Ochoa, thanks for your post and examples of curl, they are very useful. 

Now there is another option to update synthetic test. I create a new command `synctl` to manage synthetic test and location, which can get/create/update/patch and delete synthetic test, it can also get and delete location. Here is the doc https://pages.github.ibm.com/instana/synthetic-synctl/ , I think you and your friend can have a try.

Here are some command examples:

# get test listsynctl get test# update API script with below commandsynctl patch test <id> --script-file path/to/<script-name># update test frequencysynctl patch test <id> --frequency 5# for more patch options, use synctl patch test --help to show help# use this command to see test detailssynctl get test <id> --show-details# get all locationsynctl get location# delete locationsynctl delete location 

Ping me if you have any questions about it and expect your feedback.

The scenario

If you're using this Instana feature, you may already know that you can't do some things in the UI like updating your tests, this happened to a friend of mine... Click in Actions (three dots) and you're going to see "Delete the test" only, remember, we're in Open Beta and some features are not available yet.


So, how do I update the test?

You need the power of API, we have a section for Synthetic settings already in our Instana OpenAPI and documentation is available.
The rest is quite simple, instead of a POST (when you create the test) you use a PUT with the payload changed.

For demonstration purposes, I uploaded some RAW examples using curl, you can use any other fancy method to interact with the API :) like Postman.

At the bottom of the file you're going to find an UPDATE example.

Hope this helps!