Dynatrace provides an out of the box measure ‘Number of Requests’ but there is no option to split by URLs in that. It has the options to split by agent, host and application.
One of the best methods to use Dynatrace to capture web request counts in production environment is to create URL specific measures. This can help to get accurate number of transactions happening in production environment over a period of time. This information can then be used to build an accurate workload profile for performance testing purpose.
Below are the steps to create URL specific measures:
1. Open the ‘Performance Analysis’ -> ‘Web Requests’ dashlet
2. Select your URL, right click and select ‘Create Measures’ from the context menu
3. Create a ‘Web Request – Time’ measure
4. Adjust ‘Web Requests Measure Specific Attributes’ to get an accurate count
Once the measure is created by URL, you can then plot the chart and do the aggregation as per your requirements.