Create An API Test With The API

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Overview

This guide contains examples of configuration files and links to Terraform resources you can use to create API tests, as well as associated synthetics resources such as global variables.

If you’re using the API, see the JSON configuration examples
If you’re using the Python client, see the Python client example
If you’re using Terraform, see the Terraform example

For more information, see Create an API test in the API documentation.

JSON configuration

HTTP test

{
    "status": "live",
    "tags": [
        "env:production"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "azure:eastus",
        "aws:eu-west-3"
    ],
    "message": "<NOTIFICATION MESSAGE>",
    "name": "<TEST NAME>",
    "type": "api",
    "subtype": "http",
    "config": {
        "request": {
            "url": "https://example.com",
            "method": "GET"
        },
        "assertions": [
            {
                "operator": "lessThan",
                "type": "responseTime",
                "target": 1000
            },
            {
                "operator": "is",
                "type": "statusCode",
                "target": 200
            },
            {
                "operator": "is",
                "property": "content-type",
                "type": "header",
                "target": "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
            }
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "monitor_options": {
            "notify_audit": false,
            "locked": false,
            "include_tags": true,
            "new_host_delay": 300,
            "notify_no_data": false,
            "renotify_interval": 0
        },
        "tick_every": 60,
        "min_failure_duration": 0,
        "min_location_failed": 1
    }
}
                
            

SSL test

{
    "status": "live",
    "tags": [
        "env:production"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "azure:eastus",
        "aws:eu-west-3"
    ],
    "message": "<NOTIFICATION MESSAGE>",
    "name": "<TEST NAME>",
    "type": "api",
    "subtype": "ssl",
    "config": {
        "request": {
            "host": "example.com",
            "port": 443
        },
        "assertions": [
            {
                "operator": "isInMoreThan",
                "type": "certificate",
                "target": 10
            },
            {
                "operator": "moreThanOrEqual",
                "type": "tlsVersion",
                "target": "1.3"
            },
            {
                "operator": "lessThan",
                "type": "responseTime",
                "target": 1000
            }
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "monitor_options": {
            "notify_audit": false,
            "locked": false,
            "include_tags": true,
            "new_host_delay": 300,
            "notify_no_data": false,
            "renotify_interval": 0
        },
        "tick_every": 60,
        "min_failure_duration": 0,
        "min_location_failed": 1
    }
}
                
            

DNS test

{
    "status": "live",
    "tags": [
        "env:production"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "azure:eastus",
        "aws:eu-west-3"
    ],
    "message": "<NOTIFICATION MESSAGE>",
    "name": "<TEST NAME>",
    "type": "api",
    "subtype": "dns",
    "config": {
        "request": {
            "host": "example.com"
        },
        "assertions": [
            {
                "operator": "lessThan",
                "type": "responseTime",
                "target": 1000
            },
            {
                "operator": "is",
                "property": "A",
                "type": "recordSome",
                "target": "93.184.216.34"
            },
            {
                "operator": "is",
                "property": "NS",
                "type": "recordSome",
                "target": "a.iana-servers.net"
            }
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "monitor_options": {
            "notify_audit": false,
            "locked": false,
            "include_tags": true,
            "new_host_delay": 300,
            "notify_no_data": false,
            "renotify_interval": 0
        },
        "tick_every": 60,
        "min_failure_duration": 0,
        "min_location_failed": 1
    }
}
                
            

WebSocket test

{
    "status": "live",
    "tags": [
        "env:prod"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "aws:eu-west-3"
    ],
    "message": "<NOTIFICATION MESSAGE>",
    "name": "<TEST NAME>",
    "type": "api",
    "subtype": "websocket",
    "config": {
        "request": {
            "url": "ws://example.com:8081",
            "message": "websocket message"
        },
        "assertions": [
            {
                "operator": "lessThan",
                "type": "responseTime",
                "target": 1000
            },
            {
                "operator": "is",
                "type": "receivedMessage",
                "target": "connected!"
            }
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "monitor_options": {
            "notify_audit": false,
            "locked": false,
            "include_tags": true,
            "new_host_delay": 300,
            "notify_no_data": false,
            "renotify_interval": 0
        },
        "tick_every": 60,
        "min_failure_duration": 0,
        "min_location_failed": 1
    }
}
                
            

TCP test

{
    "status": "live",
    "tags": [
        "env:production"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "azure:eastus",
        "aws:eu-west-3"
    ],
    "message": "<NOTIFICATION MESSAGE>",
    "name": "<TEST NAME>",
    "type": "api",
    "subtype": "tcp",
    "config": {
        "request": {
            "host": "example.com",
            "port": 443
        },
        "assertions": [
            {
                "operator": "lessThan",
                "type": "responseTime",
                "target": 1000
            }
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "monitor_options": {
            "notify_audit": false,
            "locked": false,
            "include_tags": true,
            "new_host_delay": 300,
            "notify_no_data": false,
            "renotify_interval": 0
        },
        "tick_every": 60,
        "min_failure_duration": 0,
        "min_location_failed": 1
    }
}
                
            

UDP test

{
    "status": "live",
    "tags": [
        "env:prod"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "aws:eu-west-3"
    ],
    "message": "<NOTIFICATION MESSAGE>",
    "name": "<TEST NAME>",
    "type": "api",
    "subtype": "udp",
    "config": {
        "request": {
            "host": "example.com",
            "message": "UDP message",
            "port": 31337
        },
        "assertions": [
            {
                "operator": "lessThan",
                "type": "responseTime",
                "target": 1000
            },
            {
                "operator": "is",
                "type": "receivedMessage",
                "target": "UDP message response"
            }
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "monitor_options": {
            "notify_audit": false,
            "locked": false,
            "include_tags": true,
            "new_host_delay": 300,
            "notify_no_data": false,
            "renotify_interval": 0
        },
        "tick_every": 60,
        "min_failure_duration": 0,
        "min_location_failed": 1
    }
}
                
            

ICMP test

{
    "status": "live",
    "tags": [
        "env:production"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "aws:us-west-2",
        "aws:eu-west-3"
    ],
    "message": "<NOTIFICATION MESSAGE>",
    "name": "<TEST NAME>",
    "type": "api",
    "subtype": "icmp",
    "config": {
        "request": {
            "numberOfPackets": 4,
            "host": "example.com"
        },
        "assertions": [
            {
                "operator": "lessThan",
                "property": "avg",
                "type": "latency",
                "target": 1000
            },
            {
                "operator": "is",
                "type": "packetLossPercentage",
                "target": 0
            },
            {
                "operator": "moreThanOrEqual",
                "type": "packetsReceived",
                "target": 1
            }
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "monitor_options": {
            "notify_audit": false,
            "locked": false,
            "include_tags": true,
            "new_host_delay": 300,
            "notify_no_data": false,
            "renotify_interval": 0
        },
        "tick_every": 60,
        "min_failure_duration": 0,
        "min_location_failed": 1
    }
}
                
            

Python client

HTTP test

import os
from dateutil.parser import parse as dateutil_parser
from datadog_api_client.v1 import ApiClient, ApiException, Configuration
from datadog_api_client.v1.api import synthetics_api
from datadog_api_client.v1.models import *
from pprint import pprint

// See configuration.py for a list of all supported configuration parameters
configuration = Configuration(
    host = "https://api.datadoghq.com",
    api_key= {"apiKeyAuth": "<YOUR_API_KEY>","appKeyAuth": "<YOUR_APPLICATION_KEY>"}
)

// Enter a context with an instance of the API client where the ApiClient configuration is set as api_client:
    // Create an instance of the API class
    api_instance = synthetics_api.SyntheticsApi(api_client)
    body = SyntheticsAPITest(
        config=SyntheticsAPITestConfig(
            assertions=[
                SyntheticsAssertion(
                    operator="lessThan",
                    type="responseTime",
                    target=1000
                ),
            ],
            request=SyntheticsTestRequest(
                body="body_example",
                headers=SyntheticsTestHeaders(
                    **{"User-Agent": "value"}),
                method=HTTPMethod("GET"),
                no_saving_response_body=True,
                query={},
                timeout=60.0,
                url="https://httpbin.org/get",
            ),
        ),
        locations=[
            "aws:eu-west-2",
        ],
        message="message_example",
        name="name_example",
        options=SyntheticsTestOptions(
            follow_redirects=True,
            min_failure_duration=1,
            min_location_failed=1,
            #monitor_name="monitor_name_example",
            monitor_options=SyntheticsTestOptionsMonitorOptions(
                renotify_interval=0,
            ),
            monitor_priority=1,
            tick_every=30
        ),
        status=SyntheticsTestPauseStatus("live"),
        subtype=SyntheticsTestDetailsSubType("http"),
        tags=[
            "python-client",
        ],
        type=SyntheticsAPITestType("api"),
    )  # SyntheticsAPITest | Details of the test to create.

    // example passing only required values which don't have defaults set
    try:
        // Create an API test
        api_response = api_instance.create_synthetics_api_test(body)
        pprint(api_response)
    except ApiException as e:
        print("Exception when calling SyntheticsApi->create_synthetics_api_test: %s\n" % e)

Terraform

API tests

The synthetic test resource, with type set to api, can be used to create and manage your API tests through Terraform.

If you need to run your synthetic tests from custom or secured locations, you can use the private location resource to create and manage private locations to run your tests from. Learn more on the private locations page.

Global and local variables

Use the synthetics global variable resource to create and manage synthetics global variables, which are variables that can be securely shared across tests. You can also create test-specific local variables with builtins by defining the config_variable nested schema with type = "text" in your synthetic test resources.