Events API v2 - GET all event properties

Lists all event properties that Dynatrace provides.

The request produces an application/json payload.

GET	Managed	`https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/eventProperties`
	SaaS	`https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/eventProperties`
	Environment ActiveGate	`https://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v2/eventProperties`

Authentication

To execute this request, you need an access token with Read events (events.read) scope. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
nextPageKey	string	The cursor for the next page of results. You can find it in the nextPageKey field of the previous response. The first page is always returned if you don't specify the nextPageKey query parameter. When the nextPageKey is set to obtain subsequent pages, you must omit all other query parameters.	query	optional
pageSize	integer	The amount of event properties in a single response payload. The maximal allowed page size is 500. If not set, 100 is used.	query	optional

Parameter

Type

Description

Required

nextPageKey

string

The cursor for the next page of results. You can find it in the nextPageKey field of the previous response.

The first page is always returned if you don't specify the nextPageKey query parameter.

When the nextPageKey is set to obtain subsequent pages, you must omit all other query parameters.

query

optional

pageSize

integer

The amount of event properties in a single response payload.

The maximal allowed page size is 500.

If not set, 100 is used.

query

optional

Response

Response codes

Code	Type	Description
200	EventPropertyDetails	Success

Response body objects

The `EventPropertyDetails` object

A list of event properties.

Element	Type	Description
eventProperties	EventPropertyDetail[]	A list of event properties.
pageSize	integer	The number of entries per page.
nextPageKey	string	The cursor for the next page of results. Has the value of `null` on the last page. Use it in the nextPageKey query parameter to obtain subsequent pages of the result.
totalCount	integer	The total number of entries in the result.

The `EventPropertyDetail` object

Configuration of an event property.

Element	Type	Description
writable	boolean	Indicates whether the property may be set during event ingestion.
displayName	string	The display name of the event property.
key	string	The event property key.
description	string	A short description of the event property.

Response body JSON model

json
{
  "eventProperties": [
    {
      "writable": true,
      "displayName": "Custom description",
      "key": "dt.event.description",
      "description": "string"
    }
  ],
  "pageSize": 1,
  "nextPageKey": "AQAAABQBAAAABQ==",
  "totalCount": 1
}

Example

In this example, the request lists all available event properties that are available in the mySampleEnv environment. The result is truncated to three entries

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

Curl

shell
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/eventProperties?pageSize=3' \
  --header 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

plaintext
https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/eventProperties?pageSize=3

Response body

json
{
  "totalCount": 23,
  "pageSize": 3,
  "nextPageKey": "AQAAAAMBAAAAAw==",
  "eventProperties": [
    {
      "key": "dt.event.allow_davis_merge",
      "displayName": "Allow Davis merge",
      "description": "Allow Davis AI to merge this event into existing problems (true) or force creating a new problem (false)",
      "writable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "dt.event.baseline.service_method",
      "displayName": "Baseline affected service method",
      "description": "Lists affected service methods of the triggered service event",
      "writable": false
    },
    {
      "key": "dt.event.baseline.total_load",
      "displayName": "Baseline total load",
      "description": "The load (calls per minute) of the entire service or application for triggered event",
      "writable": false
    }
  ]
}

Response code

200