To answer my own comment above its because the ADRUM javascript is injected into the instrumented website to correlate with APM. So, that being the case how can we correlate to APM if there isn't the ADRUM beacons gluing session and snapshot together? What would I have to include in my script to simulate those headers/cookies? ... View more

Hey Hey!  Does anyone have any thoughts on how/why scripts using the Python requests module don't don't correlate to APM snapshots? If we take the example below we see a Session for a script with only Python requests no Selenium and no Waterfall, Resources, Business Transactions or Screenshots (Screenshots I can understand ;).😉 But, we know from the script output this call is for an account with the APM snapshot below. So, wouldn't it be swell if the Session showed the correlated snapshot.. ... View more

OK! So, there is a partial answer for the Synthetic Private Agent at least. It is possible to interact with System.FileOpen.Dialog using ctypes.windll.user32.keybd_event this simulates a keystroke and we can paste the clipboard into the dialog control and press enter. There is a natty little command called 'clip' in Windows to pass text to the clip board (Kudos Christian https://stackoverflow.com/users/2670792/christian for this gem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20821815/copying-the-contents-of-a-variable-to-the-clipboard). #Copy to the system clipboard def addToClipBoard(text): command = 'echo | set /p nul=' + text.strip() + '| clip' os.system(command) Next, we need to paste that into the File name: control in the dialog - Ctrl-V should do the trick! Python's ctypes module gives us access to user32.dll which enables keystrokes #Use ctypes to send keyboard events for Ctrl-v (paste) time.sleep(1) ctypes.windll.user32.keybd_event(0x11, 0, 0, 0) #CTRL is down ctypes.windll.user32.keybd_event(0x56, 0, 0, 0) #v is down ctypes.windll.user32.keybd_event(0x11, 0, 0x0002, 0) #CTRL is up logging.info("Ctrl-v pressed.") time.sleep(1) ctypes.windll.user32.keybd_event(0x0D, 0, 0, 0) #Enter Key Down ctypes.windll.user32.keybd_event(0x0D, 0, 0x0002, 0) #Enter Key Up logging.info("Enter key pressed.") Voila, for Synthetic Private Agents running on Windows OS this works fine (for me, anyways!) Now the next problem how does that work on the Synthetic Hosted Agents running Windows in a Docker container on Linux? The problem is windll is not available on Linux but rather cdll but switching in ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("C:\Windows\\System32\\user32.dll") throws the error: Exception: OSError Message: C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Stack Trace: Line 28, in <synthetic script> lib = cdll.LoadLibrary("C:\Windows\\System32\\user32.dll") Line 444, in LoadLibrary return self._dlltype(name) Line 366, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) Maybe I'm doing this bit wrong or the dll has been removed or some other combination of reasons...? ... View more

Howdy synthetic people, hope you're all well and staying safe. I'm wondering if there is a simple answer to how to interact with Windows dialog boxes typically System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog as shown below. The problem seems to be there is no native way for Selenium to interact with these and so folks mainly opt for python modules such as win32com from pywin32. But those kinds of modules are not available in the Hosted Synthetic Agents. So, how's it done? ... View more

Howdy, here's a tip. If you're interested in the natty APM Business Transaction and Snapshot correlation in Synthetics then write this down. It does NOT work in Firefox!! I know. Took me ages to work that out. Which reminds me of the 'Allow Location Access pop-up in Firefox' saga above where that's not supported in FireFox either. If I had to guess I'd say AppDynamics has a penchant for Chrome and is Chrome alone. ... View more

Lol. In my setup I have three environments each of which have slightly different endpoints for the same script. I wanted the script to ‘discover’ which environment it was running in from an environmental value in the job name and use the correct endpoint. ... View more

Oh hey! Is it possible to get the name of the job in a script? ... View more

Re. Allow Location Access pop-up in Firefox In the end, the answer was simple - use Chrome! Along the way, I learnt it is possible to change preferences after the driver is instantiated based mostly on the work of https://stackoverflow.com/users/2887618/florent-b. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29776607/python-selenium-webdriver-changing-proxy-settings-on-the-fly https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48213750/selenium-firefox-profile-update-download-directory-after-creating-webdriver I got a script working in my local selenium installation: from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.command_executor._commands["SET_CONTEXT"] = ("POST", "/session/$sessionId/moz/context") driver.execute("SET_CONTEXT", {"context": "chrome"}) driver.execute_script(""" Services.prefs.setBoolPref('geo.enabled', true); Services.prefs.setBoolPref('geo.provider.use_corelocation', true); Services.prefs.setBoolPref('geo.prompt.testing', true); Services.prefs.setBoolPref('geo.prompt.testing.allow', true); Services.prefs.setStringPref('geo.wifi.uri', 'https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=%GOOGLE_LOCATION_SERVICE_API_KEY%'); """) driver.execute("SET_CONTEXT", {"context": "content"}) However, the script output in the agent was; Base webdriver exception. Exception: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException Message: POST /session/6f8cdce1-1952-49ee-a40b-aaee0b35a120/moz/context Stack Trace Line 36, in test_app_dynamics_job driver.execute("SET_CONTEXT", {"context": "chrome"}) Line 312, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) Line 237, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) I also tried, driver.set_context("chrome") but that threw AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'set_context' The bottom line on this; either Firefox in AppDynamics won't let you change the context, or I just didn't do it right. Either way, I got around this by simply using a Chrome browser. Hope this helps! ... View more

Hi, I'm trying to handle the Allow Location Access pop-up in Firefox but I'm stuck, mainly because most of the solutions on the web instantiate a new driver with a profile similar to: browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp) AppDynamics however automatically creates the driver object and ignores subsequent calls to Firefox: WARNING: A Driver object is created automatically and is available as a local variable called `driver`. Ignoring call to `Firefox` on line 95 by returning `driver` reference. Location-aware websites must be a common thing so I was hoping AppDynamics has a nifty solution to either reference the profile object created and update its preferences or change the profile after the driver is instantiated. ... View more

Hi, I notice with failed scripts there is an "Error Started' followed by 'Error confirmed after retest' which is great. When a session results in 'Broken' no event is created and the script is not retested - is that correct? ... View more