Dynatrace Axway APIM Integration

Axway APIM Integration with Dynatrace using Dynatrace One Agent

API Management Version Compatibility

This artifact tested with following versions:

• V7.7 February 2026 release and above use main branch
• V7.7 November 2022 release and above use Nov2022 branch
• V7.7 November 2021 release use Nov2021 branch

Compile/Build

In build.gradle file, update dependencies location:

• Set the variable apim_folder to you API-Gateway installation folder (e.g. opt/Axway/APIM/apigateway/system)

gradlew clean jar

Setup

• Copy dynatrace-aspectj-x.x.x.jar file to apigateway/ext/lib

• Copy Dynatrace one agent library - https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/dynatrace/oneagent/sdk/java/oneagent-sdk/1.8.0/oneagent-sdk-1.8.0.jar to apigateway/ext/lib

• Copy Aspectj weaver - https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/aspectj/aspectjweaver/1.9.6/aspectjweaver-1.9.6.jar to apigateway/ext/lib

• Create a file named jvm.xml under APIGATEWAY_INSTALL_DIR/apigateway/conf/

  <ConfigurationFragment>
      <VMArg name="-javaagent:/home/axway/Axway-7.7.0-Aug2021/apigateway/ext/lib/aspectjweaver-1.9.6.jar"/>
  </ConfigurationFragment>

• Restart API Gateway instances

• Create Request Attributes in Dynatrace.

  • AxwayAppId
  • AxwayAppName
  • AxwayCorrelationId
  • AxwayOrgName

  Go to Settings > Server-side service monitoring > Request Attributes > Define a new request attribute. Create a Request Attribute for each property with a datasource configured to use an "SDK custom attribute" as in the following screenshot.

  

Requests captured in Dynatrace

• Policy exposed as Endpoint.
• API manager Traffic
• API Repository defined in Policystudio
• API Manager UI traffic

Requests not captured in Dynatrace

• API Manager REST API call.
• Servlet defined in Policystudio.

API Gateway without API Manager

Add additional configuration in jvm.xml file to capture requests from API Gateway without API Manager.

<ConfigurationFragment>
    <VMArg name="-Dapimanager=false"/>
</ConfigurationFragment>

Dynatrace FAQ

Dynatrace is grouping services as volatile WebRequest

• as on Axway SDK, we are dividing the services by URI, specifically on front-end axway servers, Dynatrace is grouping services as volatile webrequests. https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/volatile-WebRequest/td-p/180705 to resolve this issue, increasing the bucket size of dynatrace managed environment via support ticket.

Contributing

Please read Contributing.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Team

Axway Team

License

Apache License 2.0