XML-Feed FAQ

The XML Feed is an XML formatted stream of data carrying monitoring information for a requested period for a Device, or a Task.

See Using the XML Reporting Service (XRS)

The Basic XML FEED request is a specially formatted URL with a number of GET parameters, divided by “&” symbol, which you request by HTTPS protocol.

Content of the basic XML FEED URL is constructed from the following commands: 

EXAMPLE:

Client UID is the unique account identifier. Check it at Account > Integrations > UID.

Additional Parameters’ description is available in the Using the XML Reporting Service (XRS) article.

The term we are using is “Extended XML details”, they include all underlying tree-of-response children i.e. list of all loaded elements. This option is available by adding the “Options=RequestDetails” parameter.

You can find how to enable  “Extended XML details” in the Using the XML Reporting Service (XRS) article.

Device:

Open the target Device in the client list, go to Actions > Edit.

In the browser’s address bar you’ll see something like

https://www.dotcom-monitor.com/User/Site-Edit.aspx? id=67898 &event=Edit

The id=67898 is the device ID.

Task:

Open target Task in the client list, go to Actions > Edit.

In the browser’s address bar you’ll see something like:

https://www.dotcom-monitor.com/User/task-edit.aspx?id=73091& tid=132834 &event=Edit

The tid=132834 is the task ID.

Account > Integrations > UID

Therefore by going to Account > Integrations > UID …copy UID 123456789456123789456123, then insert where Xs for PID. And then go to Device > Task > the Actions menu  > Edit. Copy device ID 12345 from the URL, insert where Xs for Site:

http://xmlreporter.dotcom-monitor.com/reporting/xml/responses.aspx?pid=XXXXXXXXXXX&Site=XXXXX&Type=Detail&Options=RequestDetails

If you want the XML Feed to show results only from certain monitoring agents, add “&Location” string parameter to the request URL in the following way:

http://xmlreporter.dotcom-monitor.com/reporting/xml/responses.aspx?pid=XXXXXXXXXXX&Site=XXXXX&Type=Detail &Location=[agent1]&Location=[agent2]…&Location=[agent5] …

List of agents’s strings values:

Example:

<Response> 
<ID>3424533543</ID> 
<Name>Demo request</Name> 
<URL>http://demo.webportal.com/APIv1/json?userid=test;userweight=22;ACT=DASW</URL>
<Monitoring-Date-Time>3/26/2014 12:38:38 PM</Monitoring-Date-Time> 
<Duration>114</Duration>
<DnsTime>0</DnsTime>
<SSLTime>0</SSLTime> 
<ConnectionTime>15</ConnectionTime> 
<RequestTime>0</RequestTime> 
<FirstPacketTime>97</FirstPacketTime> 
<DownloadTime>2</DownloadTime> 
<Status>S</Status> 
<Monitoring-Location>FL, USA</Monitoring-Location> 
</Response>

• Duration – Overall time taken to complete the task (Basically – sum of times below)
• DnsTime – is the time required to resolve a host name (e.g. www.google.com) into a numeric IP address (e.g. 216.239.59.99).
• SSLTime – is the time required to complete the SSL handshake process.
• ConnectionTime – is the time required to create a TCP connection to the web server (or proxy). Keep-Alive connections are often used to avoid the overhead of repeatedly connecting to the web server.
• RequestTime – is the time required to send the HTTP request message to the server and will depend on the amount of data that is sent to the server. For example, long Send times will result from uploading files using an HTTP POST
• FirstPacketTime – (Time To First Byte) time elapsed to start receiving data from the remote web server. In other words, the time between request and response first byte received.
• DownloadTime – is the time taken to read the response message from the server. This value will depend on the size of the content returned, network bandwidth and whether HTTP compression was used. In other words, the time between response first and last bytes.