Settings

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You can define all settings either globally or for each workspace.

Note

You can learn more about accessing these settings in Visual Studio Code's official documentation.

Credentials

Dynatrace Extensions can either generate all the credentials required for Extension 2.0 development or allow you to bring your own credential files.

When using your credentials

You need to provide your files by using these settings:

Setting	Description
dynatraceExtensions.developerCertkeyLocation	This is the path to your developer credential file.
dynatraceExtensions.rootOrCaCertificateLocation	is the path to your root (CA) certificate.

Example usage:

./vscode/settings.json

{
  "dynatraceExtensions.developerCertkeyLocation": "C:\\Temp\\certificates\\dev.pem",
  "dynatraceExtensions.rootOrCaCertificateLocation": "C:\\Temp\\certificates\\ca.pem"
}

When generating credentials

You can customize the details that are embedded into the generated certificates by using these settings:

Setting	Default value	Description
dynatraceExtensions.certificateCommonName	Extension Developer	The certificate's common name (CN) attribute.
dynatraceExtensions.certificateOrganization		The certificate's organization (O) attribute.
dynatraceExtensions.certificateOrganizationUnit		The certificate's organization unit (OU) attribute.
dynatraceExtensions.certificateStateOrProvince		The certificate's state or province (ST) attribute.
dynatraceExtensions.certificateCountryCode		The certificate's country code (C) attribute.

Behavior

The add-on aims to allow users to customize their extension development experience as much as possible. The following settings allow turning various features on or off on demand.

Features

Setting	Default value	Description
dynatraceExtensions.metricSelectorsCodeLens	true	Metric selector code lens
dynatraceExtensions.entitySelectorsCodeLens	true	Entity selector code lens
dynatraceExtensions.fastDevelopmentMode	false	Fast development mode
dynatraceExtensions.wmiCodeLens	true	WMI queries code lens
dynatraceExtensions.screenCodeLens	true	Unified analysis screen code lens

Logging

Setting	Default value	Description
dynatraceExtensions.logging.level	INFO	The minimum level of log messages
dynatraceExtensions.logging.maxFiles	10	The maximum number of log files (by age) kept on disk.
dynatraceExtensions.logging.maxFileSize	10	The maximum size of a single log file (in MB).

Tenant Connectivity Settings

The add-on always performs web requests to your Dynatrace environment over HTTPS. In specific scenarios—for example, in Dynatrace Managed—your environment may be accessible through a dedicated endpoint that uses either a custom-signed or a self-signed SSL certificate. While valid for encryption, most frameworks and browsers don't recognize these certificates as trusted, which causes requests to fail.

The dynatraceExtensions.tenantConnectivitySettings setting is only available from your settings.json file and represents an array of environment endpoints that require special settings for HTTPS connectivity. Each entry in the array is an object with the following details:

Attribute	Default value	Description
tenantUrl	""	The base URL to your Dynatrace environment. The add-on will use the URL to decide when to apply special connectivity settings on web requests.
certificatePath	""	The path on disk to a Root/CA file in .pem or .crt format. The add-on will load this file and add it to the list of trusted CAs for the given tenantUrl.
disableSSLVerification	false	When enabled, the add-on ignores SSL certificates for the given tenantUrl. Enable this only when using self-signed certificates on your Dynatrace endpoint.

Example:

• Adding a custom certificate to the trusted CAs:

  settings.json

  "dynatraceExtensions.tenantConnectivitySettings": [
      {
          "tenantUrl": "https://10.0.0.1:5555/e/my-tenant",
          "certificatePath": "C:\\Temp\\my_custom.crt"
      }
  ]

• Using a self-signed certificate on an endpoint:

  settings.json

  "dynatraceExtensions.tenantConnectivitySettings": [
      {
          "tenantUrl": "https://my.custom.endpoint/e/my-other-tenant",
          "disableSSLVerification": true
      }
  ]

Diagnostics

Setting	Default value	Description
dynatraceExtensions.diagnostics.all	true	All diagnostics
dynatraceExtensions.diagnostics.extensionName	true	The name of the extension
dynatraceExtensions.diagnostics.metricKeys	true	Keys used for metric definitions
dynatraceExtensions.diagnostics.cardKeys	true	Keys of cards referenced/defined in the screens section
dynatraceExtensions.diagnostics.snmp	true	SNMP data source, especially the use of OIDs

Tip

Learn more about Dynatrace Extensions custom diagnostics.

Python environment

The settings in this section allow you to customize the details of your virtual environment when working with Python extensions.

Setting	Default value	Description
dynatraceExtensions.pythonExtraPlatforms	[ "linux_x86_64", "win_amd64" ]	A list of platforms to build Python packages for.